Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The July 2024 ransomware attack that hit the City of Columbus, Ohio, exposed the personal and financial data of 500,000 individuals. On July 18, 2024, the City of Columbus, Ohio, suffered a cyber attack that impacted the City’s services. ” reads the update published by the City.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 31, 2024

It may sound weird when I say that I would like to remember 2024 as the year of the biggest breaches. Huge increase in numbers As we reported in July , the number of data breach victims went up 1,170% in Q2 2024, compared to Q2 2023 (from 81,958,874 victims to 1,041,312,601). Remember these headlines?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The bot allowed the attackers to use the phished username, password and one-time code to log in as that employee at the real employer website. In January 2024, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that Urban had been arrested in Florida in connection with multiple SIM-swapping attacks.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Cyber threat analysts at Silent Push said they recently received reports from a partner organization that identified an aggressive scanning effort against their website using an Internet address previously associated with a campaign by FIN7 , a notorious Russia-based hacking group.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2025

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Cisco Smart Licensing Utility vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20439 , to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2024-20440 (CVSS score: 9.8) The vulnerability is due to excessive verbosity in a debug log file. reads the advisory.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

Key findings Phishing Banks were the most popular lure in 2024, accounting for 42.58% of financial phishing attempts. Amazon Online Shopping was mimicked by 33.19% of all phishing and scam pages targeting online store users in 2024. Cryptocurrency phishing saw an 83.37% year-over-year increase in 2024, with 10.7

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many large companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). million customers. “Negotiate a deal in Telegram.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Nor did he respond to reporting here in January 2024 that he ran an IT company with a 34-year-old Russian man named Aleksandr Ermakov , who was sanctioned by authorities in Australia, the U.K. Mr. Shefel did not respond to requests for comment in advance of that December 2023 profile. “Hi, how are you?” ” he inquired.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Hackers are exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-8956 and CVE-2024-8957, in PTZOptics cameras. Threat actors are attempting to exploit two zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-8956 and CVE-2024-8957 , in PTZOptics pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) live streaming cameras, GretNoise researchers warn.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. Booking.com said it now requires 2FA , which forces partners to provide a one-time passcode from a mobile authentication app (Pulse) in addition to a username and password.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

French internet service provider (ISP) Free disclosed a cyber attack, threat actors allegedly had access to customer personal information. that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications to consumers in France. Free S.A.S. is a French telecommunications company, subsidiary of Iliad S.A. million IBAN details.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Microsoft warns that a recently patched Windows flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-43461, was actively exploited as a zero-day before July 2024. Microsoft warns that attackers actively exploited the Windows vulnerability CVE-2024-43461 as a zero-day before July 2024. MSHTML is a platform used by Internet Explorer.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The FBI warned of a fresh wave of HiatusRAT malware attacks targeting internet-facing Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs. In March 2024, threat actors behind this campaign started targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. ” reads the PIN report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2024

Threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. The Cybernews researchers reported that threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. billion passwords from various internet data leaks.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 18, 2025

The browser has evolved from a simple web rendering engine to be the new endpoint the primary gateway through which users interact with the Internet, for work, leisure, and transactions. Palo Alto, Calif., Yet, traditional security solutions continue to focus on endpoints and networks despite the exponential growth of browser-native attacks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Ben McCarthy , lead cyber security engineer at Immersive Labs called attention to CVE-2024-20670 , an Outlook for Windows spoofing vulnerability described as being easy to exploit. ” For links to individual security advisories indexed by severity, check out ZDI’s blog and the Patch Tuesday post from the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2024

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) orders smart device manufacturers to ban default passwords starting from April 29, 2024. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging manufacturers of smart devices to comply with new legislation that bans default passwords. ” reads the announcement published by NCSC.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2025

POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) are two protocols used to retrieve and manage emails from mail servers. It is widely used to secure data transmitted over the internet, such as emails, web browsing, instant messaging, and file transfers. ShadowServer researchers reported that around 3.3

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2024

Void Banshee APT group exploited the Windows zero-day CVE-2024-38112 to execute code via the disabled Internet Explorer. An APT group tracked as Void Banshee was spotted exploiting the Windows zero-day CVE-2024-38112 (CVSS score of 7.5) to execute code through the disabled Internet Explorer. ” states Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

An internet outage impacted Orange Spain after a hacker gained access to the company’s RIPE account to misconfigure BGP routing. The hacker, who uses the moniker ‘Snow’, gained access to the RIPE account of Orange Spain and misconfigured the BGP routing causing an internet outage.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Microsoft now spotted the subgroup compromising multiple Internet-facing infrastructures to enable Seashell Blizzard APT group to maintain persistence in the networks of high-value targets and support tailored network operations. This infrastructure technique is versatile, supporting operations globally. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2024

Experts spotted threat actors exploiting the critical vulnerability CVE-2024-0769 affects all D-Link DIR-859 WiFi routers. Researchers from cybersecurity firm GreyNoise have spotted exploitation attempts for the critical vulnerability CVE-2024-0769 (CVSS score 9.8) impacting all D-Link DIR-859 WiFi routers. ” concludes GreyNoise.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €91 million for storing the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plaintext. In 2019, Meta disclosed that it had inadvertently stored some users’ passwords in plaintext on its internal systems, without encrypting them. ” reported Meta. ” reported Meta.

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SecureList

JANUARY 25, 2024

Australia has also unveiled a national strategy for digital identity resilience, aiming for mainstream use in 2024. However, the internet continues to split, with certain resources being banned in certain countries, so the tracker landscape will most likely change in the near future. This is no longer adequate in 2024.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The latest, major threats to Mac computers can steal passwords and credit card details with delicate precision, targeting victims across the internet based on their device, location, and operating system. By January 2024, AMOS had increased its price to $3,000 a month.

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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. Stolen credentials remain the top breach factor, responsible for 24% of incidents in 2024. Develop and test ransomware response plans.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

Key Findings The last quarter of 2024 proved to be a pivotal period for ransomware activity, marked by emerging threats and unexpected shifts among established groups. In our Q3 2024 ransomware report , we predicted activity would reach its peak in the last quarter of the year.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. Top Techniques: A Closer Look Phishing Techniques: The Evergreen Threat in Cybersecurity Initial access methods were the most common MITRE ATT&CK techniques between May and July 2024.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

To wrap up our 2024 year-end roundtable, we turn our attention to new technologies and trends that are emerging to help bridge the gaps. Shoshani Or Shoshani , CEO, Stream Security In 2024, 65% of breaches involved cloud data, highlighting a critical gap in cloud security. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The data contains names, email addresses, usernames, passwords, phone numbers, addresses, company names, and additional personal information. This breach is also being publicly shared on the internet. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Watch out for fake vendors.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

9, 2024, U.S. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information. technology companies during the summer of 2022. According to an Aug.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

These are “Android banking trojans,” and, according to our 2024 ThreatDown State of Malware report , Malwarebytes detected an astonishing 88,500 of them last year alone. The introduction screen when opening “RecoverFiles” and the follow-on permissions it asks from users.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. Like many other password managers, Dashlane makes it easy for users to create new passwords and store existing ones in a secure vault. The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 11, 2025

And then, to compress 11 and a bit years into a single sentence: it immediately became unexpectedly popular , I added an API and a notification service , I said "pwned" before US Congress , I added Pwned Passwords , went through a failed M&A , hired a developer and basically, devoted my life to running this service.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Quarterly figures In Q2 2024: Kaspersky solutions blocked over 664 million attacks from various internet sources. The Bureau encourages victims to contact the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov. In Q2 2024, the Play group was the most active, publishing data on 12% of all new ransomware victims.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 5, 2024

Related: Digital identity best practices We’re gullible – and we can’t get away from relying on usernames and passwords. As Black Hat USA 2024 gets underway here this week, a start-up called Token is getting a step closer to rolling out a new hardware solution – a ring with a biometric sensor – that is designed to shore up this exposure.

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