Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to interviews with several sources, this hybrid phishing gang has a remarkably high success rate, and operates primarily through paid requests or “bounties,” where customers seeking access to specific companies or accounts can hire them to target employees working remotely at home.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. ” “We are taking this matter seriously and promptly commenced an investigation,” Dash continued.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Australian telecommunications provider Tangerine disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 230,000 individuals. The telecommunications provider pointed out that no financial information (credit or debit card numbers, banking details) has been compromised. ”continues the statement.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft has now confirmed that the attackers have compromised the account of one of its employees gaining limited access to source code repositories. Our investigation has found a single account had been compromised, granting limited access. No customer code or data was involved in the observed activities. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2018

Many people, particularly older folks, proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. Postal Service or the Social Security Administration.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2024

A 42-year-old manager at an unnamed telecommunications company has admitted SIM swapping customers at his store. For that reason, SIM swapping can be used to get around two-factor authentication (2FA) codes sent by SMS message. He was paid in Bitcoin, which was traced back to Katz’s cryptocurrency account.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

The Russian government, military, and intelligence service may wish to achieve some operational effect, for example, disrupting the power grid or interfering with telecommunications infrastructure, which may be part of a larger war plan. Accounting for humans. Each of these organizations performs cyber operations for various reasons.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers to spy on the traffic and steal data. US NSA, CISA, and the FBI published a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn that China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2022

. “We’re publishing the details of a new vulnerability (tracked under CVE-2022-30563) affecting the implementation of the Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) WS-UsernameToken authentication mechanism in some IP cameras developed by Dahua, a very popular manufacturer of IP-based surveillance solutions.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

In August 2021, the group asked $1 million for the entire database, or $200,000 for access, according to the RestorePrivacy website that examined a sample that appears authentic. million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4 million former account holders.” reads the RestorePrivacy website.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2021

ProxyToken is a serious vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server that could allow unauthentication attackers to access emails from a target account. The issue could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to access emails from a target account. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.”

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted new rules aimed at enhancing security measures for cell phone accounts. SIM swapping involves the unauthorized transfer of a user's account to a SIM card controlled by malicious actors, achieved by convincing the victim's wireless carrier to make the change.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. In some campaigns analyzed by Mandiant, the threat actor was using residential IP address ranges to authenticate to target environments.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

She was pretty shocked when I showed her this as it was precisely the same verbal password as she used to authenticate to her bank. Here's the bigger issue that concerns me in both the Telstra and Optus cases: the security of our telecommunication accounts is increasingly paramount these days.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

In August 2021, the group asked $1 million for the entire database, or $200,000 for access, according to the RestorePrivacy website that examined a sample that appears authentic. While we cannot yet confirm the data is from AT&T customers, everything we examined appears to be valid.” reads the RestorePrivacy website.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. banks are stiffing account takeover victims. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000. A report commissioned by Sen.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2024

Telecommunications giant AT&T has finally confirmed that 73 million current and former customers have been caught up in a massive dark web data leak. million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4 million former account holders. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). We are reaching out to all 7.6M

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation is issuing this announcement to inform mobile carriers and the public of the increasing use of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) swapping by criminals to steal money from fiat and virtual currency accounts.” Use a variation of unique passwords to access online accounts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Attackers exploited the flaw in the SS7 protocol to defeat the 2FA authentication used by Metro Bank to protect its customers. We have supported telecommunication companies and law enforcement authorities with an industry-wide investigation and understand that steps have been taken to resolve the issue.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Spouses may request freezes for each other by phone as long as they pass authentication. Having a freeze in place does nothing to prevent you from using existing lines of credit you may already have, such as credit, mortgage and bank accounts. Online: TransUnion. By Phone: 888-909-8872. By Mail: TransUnion LLC.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2024

is an Authentication Bypass issue that resides in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, An authenticated administrator can exploit the issue by sending specially crafted requests and execute arbitrary commands on the appliance. The flaw CVE-2023-46805 (CVSS score 8.2) x and Ivanti Policy Secure. x) and Ivanti Policy Secure.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

The primary goal of Zloader was originally financial theft, stealing account login IDs, passwords and other information to take money from people’s accounts. Microsoft worked with telecommunications providers around the world to disrupt key Zloader infrastructure. Disruption. Stay safe, everyone!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

is an Authentication Bypass issue that resides in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, An authenticated administrator can exploit the issue by sending specially crafted requests and execute arbitrary commands on the appliance. The flaw CVE-2023-46805 (CVSS score 8.2) x and Ivanti Policy Secure. x) and Ivanti Policy Secure.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2023

North Korea-linked APT groups actively exploit JetBrains TeamCity flaw Multiple APT groups exploited WinRAR flaw CVE-2023-38831 Californian IT company DNA Micro leaks private mobile phone data Threat actors have been exploiting CVE-2023-4966 in Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway devices since August A flaw in Synology DiskStation Manager allows admin account (..)

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The UNC1945 group carried out attacks aimed at telecommunications companies and leveraged third-party networks to target specific financial and professional consulting industries. ” The threat actor established a foothold on a Solaris 9 server by using the Solaris Pluggable Authentication Module SLAPSTICK backdoor.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The experts analyzed the case of a campaign targeting the customers of the telecommunication giant Verizon, attackers used a square root symbol, a logical NOR operator, or the checkmark symbol itself. The trick adopted by the crooks aims at creating a sort of optical interference that could allow bypassing anti-spam solutions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The vulnerability is a Microsoft Outlook spoofing vulnerability that can lead to an authentication bypass. In March 2023, Microsoft published guidance for investigating attacks exploiting the patched Outlook vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-23397.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 18, 2023

government agency email accounts, but some details remain a mystery. government accounts using a stolen inactive Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key. Chinese hacker group Storm-0558 breached an undisclosed number of email accounts belonging to 25 organizations, including U.S. This issue has been corrected.”

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SecureList

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The threat actors used certificates from Nvidia and Kuwait Telecommunications Company to sign their malware; the former was already leaked, but we’re not sure how they got their hands on the latter. The ransomware – use of Kuwait Telecommunications Company signing certificate. 96eabcc77a6734ea8587599685fbf1b4.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A recent hack discovered by one of the world's largest telecommunications companies has the potential to impact millions of cell phone users worldwide. Several security researchers have expressed concerns over the secondary effects of the breach, including how it could impact 2-factor authentication (2FA).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Most essentially, facial recognition technology promises a solid amount of internal and external security advantages in the day-to-day activity of enterprises, making it a key technology for passwordless authentication. Also read: Passwordless Authentication 101. False Negatives, Deepfakes and Other Concerns.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

mail.cyta.com.cy: Cyta telecommunications and Internet provider, Cyprus. 14 by KrebsOnSecurity, Netnod CEO Lars Michael Jogbäck confirmed that parts of Netnod’s DNS infrastructure were hijacked in late December 2018 and early January 2019 after the attackers gained access to accounts at Netnod’s domain name registrar.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Related: Most companies ignorant about rising mobile attacks While it might be tempting to dismiss the potential revenue lost by Apple, Samsung, HTC and other suppliers of authentic phones, this counterfeit wave is particularly worrisome. The faked phones flooding the market today are slicker than ever. The smartphone industry knows this.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

Telecommunication giant T-Mobile confirmed the LAPSUS$ extortion group gained access to its networks in March. In most cases, this involved social engineering employees at the targeted firm into adding one of their computers or mobiles to the list of devices allowed to authenticate with the company’s virtual private network (VPN).”

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“A global privacy disaster”, “espionage gold”, and “a state-sponsored wet dream” are just some of the comments one can read regarding the breach at Syniverse, a key player in the tech/telecommunications industry that calls itself the “center of the connected world.”

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released its National Strategy to Secure 5G implementation plan starting in January. Within telecommunications, standards bodies should be more vigilant in mandating optional security controls that reduce the risk of cyberattacks. Supply Chains.

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