SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2022

Even though World Password Day is over, it's never too late to remind your end-users that weak, unimaginative, and easy-to-guess passwords—like "123456," "qwerty," and, well… "password"—are poor options for securing accounts and devices. Improving password best practices matters.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

The linked article focuses on misconfiguration, phishing issues, limiting data share, and the ever-present Internet of Things. Digital wallet phish attempts are rampant on social media, and we expect this to rise. The post Clouding the issue: what cloud threats lie in wait in 2022? Below, we dig into a few of those.

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NSTIC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Today’s blog will jumpstart NIST’s celebration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022! We have a lot in store for October and are looking forward to sharing our work, progress, events, and news with you.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

They earned the highest score among providers named "Customer's Choice" in Gartner's 2022 "Voice of the Customer” Security Awareness Computer-Based Training report. Dashlane Password Manager provides companies with everything they need to onboard new employees, manage permissions and monitor security issues all from one place.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty investigative stories — the really satisfying kind with the potential to affect positive change. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 12, 2024

On July 12, 2024, AT&T disclosed a data security incident that occurred in 2022. A password manager can generate strong and unique passwords for every account. The company confirmed that unauthorized individuals accessed customer data stored on a third-party cloud platform.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

On November 30, 2022, password manager LastPass informed customers of a cybersecurity incident following unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service. While LastPass claims that users’ passwords remain safely encrypted, it admitted that certain elements of customers’ information have been exposed.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Anti-phishing tools. Enhanced phishing protection, by way of Smartscreen, is the name of the game, and Microsoft is all too happy to explain the changes. Smartscreen is a Windows feature which helps ward off bogus sites phishing for personal data and payment information. — m (@tinymwriter) September 23, 2022.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 12, 2024

Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device can’t be phished. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

However, if a site looks like it hasn’t been maintained in a while (for example, it displays outdated information, such as ‘Copyright 2022′) you should avoid entering in your card details. When looking at compromised websites, it can be hard to tell what—if anything—is wrong.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The rise of AI-driven phishing and social engineering, increased targeting of critical infrastructure, and the emergence of more sophisticated fileless malware are all trends that have shaped the cybersecurity battlefield this year. This payment would be nearly double the previous record of $40 million paid by CNA Financial in 2021.The

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

We started with usernames and passwords – something you know. Passwordless is the modern authentication method that does not rely on passwords, eliminating the risks that come with weak, lost, or stolen credentials. It is MFA Phishing Resistant. What is passwordless? the adoption of passwordless authentication continues to rise.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

Well, there’s a “potential vulnerability” which allowed spambots to post phishing links to other users. — OpenSea Support (@opensea_support) May 6, 2022. There’s no further information on how this occurred, but situations like this can happen if a channel’s administrator gets phished.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Do you hate having to punch in a password on your login screen every time you open your laptop? Are you sick of firing up the password manager, or grabbing your phone to confirm a login, or to grab an MFA code? Perhaps they were obtained from a data dump, or a hacking forum, or a straightforward phishing email.)

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 21, 2024

After they looked at the files, BleepingComputer concluded that they had been stolen or at least created on December 25, 2022. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device can’t be phished.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This was revealed in a 2022 Consumer Impact report released by Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) on Tuesday this week. Concernedly, all such siphoned info is being used for launching phishing attacks or to siphon money from bank accounts. It might sound weird!

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In January 2022, Lapsus$ hackers tricked an engineer from Sitel, Okta’s third-party customer support services provider, into pushing ‘accept’ on an MFA push notification. The attackers then created phishing pages to appear to be legitimate Okta authentication pages of the victim’s company.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Passwords are a weak point in modern-day secure authentication practices, with Verizon highlighting that almost 50% of breaches start with compromised credentials. In our previous two features, we covered the dangers of phishing (one method of credential compromise) and how to mitigate its impact on users.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

Successful attackers can then use the credentials to leverage stored credit card data to make fraudulent purchases, steal gift cards saved on the customer’s account, use the information in phishing attempts against victims or sell the login information and personal data to other bad actors. Removing the Guesswork for Cybercriminals.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In the first seven months of this year alone, the cybercriminals, using 34 Telegram groups to coordinate their attacks, stole more than 50 million passwords from over 890,000 devices in 111 countries. That’s a significant increase from 2021, when the stealers accessed almost 28 million passwords from a total of 538,000 devices.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2023

Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4 Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4 Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

25 nov 2022 is black Friday. Never access links or attachments you receive from unknown sources – Use a Bitdefender security solution to fend off scam and phishing links. Below are some of the subject lines observed by Bitdefender: black friday sale louis vuitton bags up to 86 off shop online now.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 6, 2022

Verizon's 2022 Data Breach Investigation Report showed that 82% of breaches last year were in part due to human error. This includes things such as phishing, use of stolen credentials, misconfiguration, and simple mistakes. July 4, 2022. 1 billion records of private citizens' data. ?? link] pic.twitter.com/FpMCGrpx08 — CZ ??

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2022

The main attack vector is phishing which the group uses to gain a foothold before moving on to breach the network from there. ” (Friday in this demand is March 4, 2022). If you recognize one or more of them we would encourage you to not only change them, but also to start using a password manager.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2024

Research done by TheMarkup in June of 2022 showed that Meta’s pixel showed up on the websites of 33 of the top 100 hospitals in America. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device can’t be phished.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2022

And with new social engineering trends like “callback phishing” on the rise, it’s not just businesses that should be concerned. But despite warnings from security experts, individuals continue to use weak and breached passwords that leave them vulnerable to cybersecurity threats.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Hosting and domain name company GoDaddy says it believes a "sophisticated threat actor group" has been subjecting the company to a multi-year attack campaign, the most recent of which occurred in December 2022. Use a password manager, which will help you create long and complicated passwords without having to commit them to memory.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

Also, employees install more and more cybersecurity solutions, from password managers and ad blockers to Virtual Private Networks. In addition to that, businesses run various tests to see how employees react to phishing. After extensive research by IBM in the year 2022, it is evident that, on average, a total of 4.35

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 22, 2023

BreachForums was set up by the arrested administrator working under the handle “Pompompurin” after the FBI seized RaidForums in 2022. Choose a strong password that you don't use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device can’t be phished.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 29, 2022

GHS confirmed the incident took place on June 28th,2022 and concluded that an unauthorized access took place on its servers leaking patient data to hackers and locking down the systems with encryption- meaning it was a ransomware attack. And the affected companies are mostly from IT and software development sector.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2023

that traditionally falls during our business day, and those who participate in viewing and playing in their "office pools" are susceptible to a variety of security threats, especially those dreaded phishing lures. Mobile phishing attacks are on the rise. By 2021, 75% of phishing sites were specifically targeting mobile users.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 26, 2021

The online gaming industry has exploded in recent years and is expected to generate close to $200 billion in revenue by 2022. Phishing and stolen identities – Phishing, the go-to method of attack for cybercriminals, is also a frequent tactic within the gaming community.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

While Royal ransomware is a relatively new strain, discovered by security researchers in September 2022, cyberattacks on healthcare organizations have become the norm for malicious threat actors. Since the beginning of the pandemic, cyberattacks targeting healthcare have increased dramatically.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

Despite the IT giant has implemented defenses like 2-Step Verification and Google Password Manager , it recognizes that to really address password issues, it is necessary to adopt passwordless solutions. In 2022, Google announced it would begin work to support passkeys on its platform to replace passwords. .

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Approachable Cyber Threats

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2022 though, there are likely less people who still seek the thrill of a Black Friday sale at the mall, but for the rest of us, we have online shopping to the rescue. Phishing emails Picture this: it’s a few days before the holidays and you’re waiting on a few more gifts to arrive at your door when an email pops up on your phone.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Apple Apple introduced support for passkeys at its 2021 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) as a tech preview, introduced broader support at WWDC 2022 and announced additional features at WWDC 2023. Google Password Manager On Android, the Google Password Manager provides backup and syncs passkeys.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

dmg’ file (Setup.dmg), upon executing it, the malicious code attempts to trick victims into entering their system password on a fake prompt. The malware also targets the password management tool using the main_keychain() function to extract sensitive information from the target machine.

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