Heimadal Security

MARCH 20, 2025

While artificial intelligence has transformed the ability to prevent, detect, […] The post The Social Security data breach compromised ‘billions’ of accounts. appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Here’s one easy, free way to protect yourself.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2025

Through an automated attack disguised as a notice from Hunts chosen newsletter provider Mailchimp, scammers stole roughly 16,000 records belonging to current and past subscribers of Hunts blog. The email claimed that Mailchimp was temporarily cutting service to Hunt because his blog had allegedly received a spam complaint.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

I like to start long blog posts with a tl;dr, so here it is: We've ingested a corpus of 1.5TB worth of stealer logs known as "ALIEN TXTBASE" into Have I Been Pwned. It's those credentials that are then sold in the stealer logs and later used to access the victim's accounts, which is the second exploitation.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2020

One of the worst of all the bugs they found would have allowed criminals to create a worm that would automatically steal all the photos, videos, and documents from someone’s iCloud account and then do the same to the victim’s contacts. Lots of details in this blog post by one of the hackers.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2025

. “This campaign delivers multiple families of commodity malware, including XWorm, Lumma stealer, VenomRAT, AsyncRAT, Danabot, and NetSupport RAT,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post on Thursday. Some of those lures worked, and allowed thieves to gain control over booking.com accounts.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Before diving into the specifics of dormant accounts, it's important to take a step back and discuss a prerequisite: gaining cross-platform visibility into identity and access management data. And finally, individual users often have multiple accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) Why are dormant accounts a risk?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2025

. “Garantex has been used in sanctions evasion by Russian elites, as well as to launder proceeds of crime including ransomware, darknet market trade and thefts attributed to North Koreas Lazarus Group,” Elliptic wrote in a blog post. A “most wanted” notice published by the U.S. Secret Service states that U.S.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 3, 2024

While hard to measure precisely, tech support scams accounted for $924M, according to the FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report. We’ve identified specific advertiser accounts that make up the bulk of fraudulent ads we have reported to Google this past year. While the organic result looks more trustworthy, it does appear under.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2025

The background and the IOCs for this blog were gathered by an Expert helper on our forums and Malwarebytes researchers. The archives are offered for download on various locations like Dropbox, Catbox, and often on the Discord content delivery network (CDN), by using compromised accounts which add extra credibility. fr leyamor[.]com

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It’s bad enough that many ransomware gangs now have blogs where they publish data stolen from companies that refuse to make an extortion payment. Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up. On the evening of Monday, Nov.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2023

BeyondTrust’s security team detected that someone was trying to use an Okta account assigned to one of their engineers to create an all-powerful administrator account within their Okta environment. ET: BeyondTrust has published a blog post about their findings. He said that on Oct 2., But she said that by Oct.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The post How Cloud Monitor Helps Centennial School District Combat Account Takeovers appeared first on ManagedMethods Cybersecurity, Safety & Compliance for K-12. The post How Cloud Monitor Helps Centennial School District Combat Account Takeovers appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Hacker's King

JANUARY 1, 2025

You may also like to read: Instagram Hacked: Top 5 Ways to Protect Your Account Ways to Secure Your Twitter Account Set a Strong Password - Setting a strong password is the very first step to secure your Twitter account. It enables us to make our accounts more secure. Be cautious with public Wi-Fi.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2024

According to the breach tracking service Constella Intelligence , the passwords included in the source code archive are identical to credentials exposed in previous data breaches that involved email accounts belonging to NPD’s founder, an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida named Salvatore “Sal” Verini.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2025

But the confusing nature of stealer logs coupled with an overtly long blog post explaining them and the conflation of which services needed a subscription versus which were easily accessible by anyone made for a very intense last 6 days. FWIW, entries that matched this pattern accounted for 13.6%

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Details are in the Microsoft blog: We have published our in-depth analysis of the Solorigate backdoor malware (also referred to as SUNBURST by FireEye), the compromised DLL that was deployed on networks as part of SolarWinds products, that allowed attackers to gain backdoor access to affected devices.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2025

Analyzed by researchers at Extension Total, the cybercriminal campaign has managed to take over the accounts of at least 36 Google Chrome extensions that provide AI and VPN services. million people.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2021

The crime gang announced it was closing up shop after its servers were seized and someone drained the cryptocurrency from an account the group uses to pay affiliates. The outage also took down its payment server and those that supply its distributed denial-of-service feature, which is used to turn up the heat on victims who balk at paying.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 3, 2020

Less than 3 weeks ago I wrote about The Unattributable "db8151dd" Data Breach which, after posting that blog post and a sample of my own data, the community quickly attributed to Covve. My hope is that this blog post helps myself and the 69 million other people in this one work out who collected and then exposed their personal information.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Theres a good article on the UKs National Cyber Security Centre blog, Telling users to avoid clicking bad links still isnt working. We're even aware of some cases where people have forwarded suspicious emails from their home accounts to their work accounts, assuming that the security measures in place in their organisations will protect them.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2025

Invitation to a Telegram conversation The Telegram invitation was a bit more limited (European and American female users only) but extended to a larger group of 150 accounts on X. Mind you, my profile is not some honeytrap, it clearly says I blog for Malwarebytes. create an account on a fake booking(dot)com site Here’s that site.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 14, 2023

here's a blog post about how stupid class actions like this are! Protect your identity now.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A blog post by Microsoft says the attackers were able to add malicious code to software updates provided by SolarWinds for Orion users. From there, the attackers would be able to forge single sign-on tokens that impersonate any of the organization’s existing users and accounts, including highly privileged accounts on the network.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 16, 2021

Lucky225 showed how anyone could do the same after creating an account at a service called Sakari , a company that helps celebrities and businesses do SMS marketing and mass messaging. From there, the attacker can reset the password of any account which uses that phone number for password reset links.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

In a blog post earlier this month, Cloudflare said it detected the account takeovers and that no Cloudflare systems were compromised. 4 it became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2020

This comes as no surprise to regular followers, nor should it come as a surprise that I maintain an Untappd account, logging my beer experiences as I (used to ??) Someone had registered a new Netflix account with my email / password associated with my BeerAdvocate account. I love beer. You'll never believe what happened next.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Almost a decade ago now, I wrote what would become one of my most career-defining blog posts: The Only Secure Password is the One You Can't Remember. I had come to the realisation that I simply had too many accounts across too many systems to ever have any chance of creating decent unique passwords I could remember.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

The Board reaches this conclusion based on: the cascade of Microsoft’s avoidable errors that allowed this intrusion to succeed; Microsoft’s failure to detect the compromise of its cryptographic crown jewels on its own, relying instead on a customer to reach out to identify anomalies the customer had observed; the Board’s assessment of security practices (..)

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Anton on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our fourth Threat Horizons Report ( full version ) that we just released ( the official blog for #1 report , my unofficial blog for #2 , my unofficial blog for #3 ).

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Troy Hunt

MAY 13, 2023

This is the story I mentioned about the bloke in Melbourne copping it from the public for craning his McLaren into his apartment (its' "guitar lessons" all over again!)

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 18, 2021

million current T-Mobile postpaid customer accounts’ information appears to be contained in the stolen files, as well as just over 40 million records of former or prospective customers who had previously applied for credit with T-Mobile,” the company wrote in a blog post. . “Our preliminary analysis is that approximately 7.8

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

Whoever compromised the shop siphoned data on millions of card accounts that were acquired over four years through various illicit means from legitimate, hacked businesses around the globe — but mostly from U.S. Although Visa cards made up more than half of accounts put up for sale (12.1 Source: NYU.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The trouble is, there’s little to stop criminals from leveraging newly registered or hacked LinkedIn business accounts to create their own ad campaigns using Slinks. Way back in 2016, security firm Fortinet blogged about LinkedIn’s redirect being used to promote phishing sites and online pharmacies. Image: Urlscan.io.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Responding to a recent surge in AI-generated bot accounts, LinkedIn is rolling out new features that it hopes will help users make more informed decisions about with whom they choose to connect. For example, on October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Whether it’s related to hotel or airline rewards or just Amazon gift cards, after they successfully log in to the account their scripts start pilfering inboxes looking for things that could be of value.” . “These guys are looking for low-hanging fruit — basically cash in your inbox.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

” The intrusion came to light on Twitter when the account @und0xxed started tweeting the details. ” Other databases allegedly accessed by the intruders included one for prepaid accounts, which had far fewer details about customers. ” T-Mobile declined to comment beyond what the company said in its blog post today.

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