Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. ” WHOLESALE PASSWORD THEFT.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In this 2019 post from Cracked, a forum moderator told the author of the post (Buddie) that the owner of the RDP service was the founder of Nulled, a.k.a. Constella found that a user named Shoppy registered on Cracked in 2019 using the email address finn@shoppy[.]gg. “Finndev.” ” Image: Ke-la.com.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

Pop quiz: What has been the most popular — and therefore least secure — password every year since 2013? If you answered “password,” you’d be close. Qwerty” is another contender for the dubious distinction, but the champion is the most basic, obvious password imaginable: “123456.”

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Ireland’s privacy watchdog Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91M ($101M) after the discovery in 2019 that Meta had stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plaintext. Most of these passwords belonged to Facebook Lite users, but it affected other Facebook and Instagram users as well.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users' passwords in plaintext in its systems. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

Occasionally though, the corpus of data is of much greater significance, most notably the Collection #1 incident of early 2019. Website, username and password: That's just the first 20 rows out of 5 million in that particular file, but it gives you a good sense of the data. Is it legit? The VideoScribe service on line 9: Exists.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

” According to Intel 471, this same Discord account was advertised in 2019 by a person on the cybercrime forum Cracked who used the monikers “ ORN ” and “ ori0n.” codes in 2021 using the password “ ceza2003 ” [full disclosure: Constella is currently an advertiser on KrebsOnSecurity].

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 8, 2021

Ever notice how there was a massive gap of almost 9 months between announcing the intention to start open sourcing Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) in August last year and then finally a couple of weeks ago, actually taking the first step with Pwned Passwords ? I was pretty excited when I saw PRs coming in right after launching that last blog post.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This enormous injection of used passwords has puffed up the world’s largest publicly available password database by 38%, according to Hunt. HIBP) allows users to type in an email address, phone number or password and find out how many times they’ve been involved in a data breach. Have I Been Pwned?’. Have I Been Pwned?’

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. “It was like this system notification from Apple to approve [a reset of the account password], but I couldn’t do anything else with my phone.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Problems arise for businesses when they base their access management programs entirely around passwords, however. Such programs overlook the burden that passwords can cause to users as well as to IT and security teams. Passwords: An unsustainable business cost. Users have too many passwords to remember on their own.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2021

Sponsored by: 1Password is a secure password manager and digital wallet that keeps you safe online.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

A researcher found a flaw in Windows OS, tracked as PetitPotam, that can be exploited to force remote Windows machines to share their password hashes. The NTLM authentication hash can be used to carry out a relay attack or can be lately cracked to obtain the victim’s password. The news of the attack was first reported by The Record.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2019

com — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and private messages for nearly 113,000 forum users.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The hack was acknowledged by the forum’s current administrator, who assured members that their passwords were protected with a password obfuscation technology that was extremely difficult to crack. OGUsers was hacked at least twice previously, in May 2019 and again in March 2020.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

For comparison, that’s a 273% increase over the first two quarters of 2019 combined. While the number of publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 decreased by 58% compared to 2019, the coronavirus pandemic gave cybercriminals new ways to thrive,” wrote Bitdefender researcher and blogger Alina Bizga. Marriott (5.2

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

Silvia Convento, Senior UX Researcher and Court Jacinic, Senior UX Content Designer In recognition of World Password Day 2023, Google announced its next step toward a passwordless future: passkeys. Passkeys are not just easier to use, but also significantly faster than passwords. On average, a user can successfully sign in within 14.9

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

From there, the two allegedly would check how many of those Yahoo accounts were associated with Ring accounts, and then target people who used the same password for both accounts. Whereas, when cybercriminals reuse passwords, it often costs them their freedom. . “ChumLul,” 22, of Racine, Wisc.,

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

That allowed them to seize control over a target’s incoming phone calls and text messages, which were used to reset the password for email, social media and cryptocurrency accounts tied to those numbers. Interestingly, the conspiracy appears to have unraveled over a business dispute between the two men. In a private message dated Nov.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

A map showing the distribution of some 2 million iLinkP2P-enabled devices that are vulnerable to eavesdropping, password theft and possibly remote compromise, according to new research. “In reality, enumeration of these prefixes has shown that the number of online devices was ~1,517,260 in March 2019.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

He urges enterprises to implement Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions and multi-factor authentication (MFA) and to enforce robust password policies to reduce the risk of account compromise. Require 16+ character unique passwords stored in an enterprise password manager. Use Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. Password re-use becomes orders of magnitude more dangerous when website developers engage in this unsafe practice.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Even if the devices have since been patched, if the passwords were not reset, they remain vulnerable. A patch for the vulnerability has been available since May 2019, but this patch has not been applied as widely as necessary. CVE-2018-13379. The threat actor.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

On December 23, 2019, unknown attackers began contacting customer support people at OpenProvider , a popular domain name registrar based in The Netherlands. 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. In cases where passwords are used, pick unique passwords and consider password managers.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

[link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 23, 2019 The BBC asked us to look into a range of IoT products. cybergibbons) September 24, 2019 Holy s**t! pic.twitter.com/oGS3bI9kcY — Domonkos Tomcsanyi (@domi007) September 26, 2019 Dating service used fake accounts to attract more paying users. A dream come true ????????

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

Imperva , a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Very often, those addresses are accompanied by other personal information such as passwords. No, and the passwords are the very first thing that starts to give it all away. The attack is simple but effective due to the prevalence of password reuse. Clearly a Spotify breach, right? That's it, job done, they're into your account.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Active since at least 2013 , XE Group is a cybercriminal group focused on credit card skimming and password theft via supply chain attacks. The group was also observed exploiting vulnerabilities in Telerik UI such as CVE-2017-9248 and CVE-2019-18935. ” reads the analysis published by Intezer.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Microsoft analyzed details of the SolarWinds attack: Microsoft and FireEye only detected the Sunburst or Solorigate malware in December, but Crowdstrike reported this month that another related piece of malware, Sunspot , was deployed in September 2019, at the time hackers breached SolarWinds’ internal network.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

In late April 2019, Fiserv was sued by Bessemer System Federal Credit Union , a comparatively tiny financial institution with just $38 million in assets. Bessemer claims Fiserv’s systems let anyone reset a customer’s online banking password just by knowing their SSN and account number. Justice Department.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Gnosticplayers shared a data sample that included user names, email addresses, logins, passwords, phone numbers, Facebook IDs, and Zynga account IDs. The Collection #1 and Collection #2 hacks made the information of 747 million stolen accounts from over 20 websites available on the dark web earlier in 2019.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

District Court for the Southern District of California allege Firsov was the administrator of deer.io, an online platform that hosted more than 24,000 shops for selling stolen and/or hacked usernames and passwords for a variety of top online destinations. An example seller’s panel at deer.io. Click image to enlarge.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 4, 2023

Back in October 2022, I wrote an article called Why (almost) everything we told you about passwords was wrong. Most damningly of all, the vast effort involved in dispensing this advice over decades has generated little discernible improvement in people’s password choices.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

All of those come into play in the case of the Snapchat account of actor Bella Thorne , who was allegedly targeted by PlugwalkJoe and associates in June 2019. From there, the attackers can reset the password for any online account that allows password resets via SMS. FEMALE TARGETS.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

A California company that helps telemarketing firms avoid getting sued for violating a federal law that seeks to curb robocalls has leaked the phone numbers, email addresses and passwords of all its customers, as well as the mobile phone numbers and other data on people who have hired lawyers to go after telemarketers.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

Alex Holden , founder of the cybersecurity intelligence firm Hold Security, said Witte’s greatest lapse in judgment came around Christmas time in 2019, when she infected one of her own computers with the Trickbot malware — allowing it to steal and log her data within the botnet interface.

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