Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2025

Beginning the message with emojis, Birdie started the chat… Group invitation on X [emoji intro] Hello, I am a third-party agency from the UK, specializing in providing ranking and likes services for Booking+Airbnb hotel applications. With that phone in hand, I set up a Gmail account and installed WhatsApp. It isn’t.)

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Some of what I've read over the past quarter, and want to recommend each of the books below as worthy of your time. Dr. Black is explicit that she wrote the book to carry the feel of an internet campaign, with some stylistic bits that I found surprising. Don't make my mistake, and do read the book. I was expecting a drier style.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Threats is almost in bookstores When my first threat modeling book came out, I talked about STRIDE in terms of Star Wars Luke Skywalker spoofing a Stormtrooper and being caught because he was too short. And as I thought about turning that into a book, my publisher suggested maybe you can get a chapter out of it? Which is right?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2025

Some of those lures worked, and allowed thieves to gain control over booking.com accounts. From there, they sent out phishing messages asking for financial information from people who’d just booked travel through the company’s app.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2016, WhatsApp gave users a one-time ability to opt out of having account data turned over to Facebook. Other people’s phone numbers stored in address books. Now, an updated privacy policy is changing that. Come next month, users will no longer have that choice. Profile names. Profile pictures and.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2025

Here’s how it works: Cybercriminals send a fake Booking.com email to a hotels email address, asking them to confirm a booking. Dear Team, You have received a new booking. Monitor your accounts. Check your accounts periodically for unexpected changes and notifications of suspicious login attempts.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams. And then there's the account holder, the one who chose the password. Without doubt, blame lies with them.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 24, 2025

ELUSIVE COMET targets its victims by luring them into a Zoom video call and then taking over their PC to install malware, infiltrate their accounts, and steal their assets. Then they used a third-party booking system called Calendly to arrange the call. There was also a YouTube account. He took the bait.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn't hand over at all, but that was collected from other people's contact books, a hidden layer of details Facebook has about you that I've come to call "shadow contact information."

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2025

Good bots accounted for just 14% of the internet’s traffic. An increasing number try to hijack peoples’ online accounts, which they often do by credential stuffing. These account takeover attacks have skyrocketed lately. Bad bots comprised 37% of internet traffic in 2024, up from 32% the year prior.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

million accounts. Threat actors compromised the FlexBooker accounts of more than 3.7 FlexBooker recommends users stay vigilant and review account statements and credit reports for suspicious transactions. The data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned reports that 3,756,794 accounts were compromised in the attack.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The cyberattack also impacted the company’s online services relating to its Nook line of e-book readers. Barnes & Noble customers are strongly encouraged to update any related passwords and to keep an eye for irregular activity on their accounts. .

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 30, 2024

To rack up millions of views, a fall aesthetic account on X might post an AI-generated image of a candle-lit caf table overlooking a rainy, romantic street. Or, to sway public opinion, a social media account may post an AI-generated image of a child stranded during a flood with the caption Our government has failed us again.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 27, 2023

Book a demo today. That segment is last up in this week's video and I do give fair warning just in case you're not in the best environment to be watching that part of the update. Viewer discretion advised! It's Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I currently have over 450 accounts that use passwords combined with a variety of two-factor authentication methods. In effect, my passwords are now “keys” — and I must authenticate across many accounts, multiple times per day, on a variety of device platforms. the address book web app). Scale to come.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The activity significantly disrupted IHG's booking channels and other applications. Booking system. The unavailability of the online booking system must be a major pain for IHG. directly to make, amend or cancel a booking. In addition, experts from outside of IHG are being brought in to help with the investigation.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 13, 2023

Book a demo today. 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!) It's Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

Carnival Corporation – which has been plagued by cyberattacks over the past few years – issued a breach disclosure on Thursday confirming hackers attacked email accounts and gained access to data about its customers and employees. The post Carnival discloses new data breach on email accounts appeared first on SC Media.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

38% of people said they will book their next travel opportunity through a general search, which could leave them vulnerable to malvertising. Take, for example, the 38% of people who told Malwarebytes that they would conduct a general search online in booking their next vacation. Use a password manager and 2FA. Consider a VPN.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It was written into the plot of Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon , and I even wrote an afterward to the book describing the cipher. We find a model for repetitions in the keystream in the stream cipher Solitaire that accounts for the large majority of the repetition bias. Other phenomena merit further investigation.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2023

Book a demo today. Sponsored by: Kolide ensures only secure devices can access your cloud apps. It's Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This attack requires access to the MFP printer admin account and an already configured LDAP service. If patching isn’t possible, they should set a strong admin password, avoid using high-privilege Windows accounts for LDAP or SMB, and disable unauthenticated remote access.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

ChronoPay founder and CEO Pavel Vrublevsky was the key subject of my 2014 book Spam Nation , which described his role as head of one of Russia’s most notorious criminal spam operations. Vrublevsky Sr. recently declared bankruptcy, and is currently in prison on fraud charges. “Hi, how are you?” ” he inquired.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Companies must take this into account and consider extending employee training to also promote security and privacy habits among all family members, especially children. Do you have a corporate book club? I’ve also been brought in to host Virtual Reading Events with the book for corporate programs. Send gifts to clients?

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

Good passwords are long, random, and unique to each account, which means it’s impossible for a human to manage them on their own. Pick either 1Password or LastPass , go through all your accounts, and for each one…reset the password to something created by (and stored in) your password manager. Automatic Logins Using Lastpass.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Going by the details, Xfinity email users started receiving email alerts that their account info was changed. And when they tried to access the account, their attempts failed as their passwords were changed. The post Data Breach leads to Comcast Customer Data Leak appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

The researchers noticed that the “Send to Kindle” feature allows Kindle users to send e-books to their devices as email attachments, a behavior that could be potentially exploited for malicious purposes, for example sending a malicious e-book to potential victims. To my pleasant surprise, the e-book appeared on the device!

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

The ne’er-do-well who set up the account below has been paying $550 a month for a Land Lordz “basic plan” subscription at landlordz[.]site site that helps him manage more than 500 scam properties and interactions with up to 100 (soon-to-be-scammed) “guests” looking to book the fake listings.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

AWS customers visiting AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas can book a meeting to learn more here. Media contact: Chloe Amante, Account Director, Montner Tech PR, camante@montner.com The post News alert: Sweet Security rolls out its advanced runtime detection and response platform for AWS first appeared on The Last Watchdog.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

Your Web browser knows how to find a site like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly website names (example.com) into numeric Internet addresses. “We do shut down abusive accounts when we find them,” Job said.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Related: How ‘XDR’ defeats silos Now along comes a new book, Evading EDR: The Definitive Guide for Defeating Endpoint Detection Systems , by a red team expert, Matt Hand, that drills down a premier legacy security system that is in the midst of this transition: endpoint detection and response, EDR. Hand: I don’t believe so.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And yet, if artificial intelligence achieves what is called an agentic model in 2025, novel and boundless attacks could be within reach, as AI tools take on the roles of agents that independently discover vulnerabilities, steal logins, and pry into accounts. These are real threats, but they are not novel.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Facebook Is an Open Book. Once the number has been transferred, the criminal has control of any accounts that are identified by caller ID (including many financial institutions) as well as any accounts protected by two-factor authentication. Monitor your accounts. What You Can Do. 5 above.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” user account — this one on Verified[.]ru Prior to that, akafitis@gmail.com was used as the email address for the account “ Fitis ,” which was active on Exploit between September 2006 and May 2007.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity last month interviewed a victim who recently saw more than three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency siphoned from his account. Still, Palant and others impacted by the 2022 breach at LastPass say their account security settings were never forcibly upgraded. “LastPass in my book is one step above snake-oil.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 8, 2020

Use a password manager to make and store good passwords that are different for every account/device. Most peoples’ highest risk systems are their primary email account and their mobile phone account. Next come your social media accounts, and then any accounts that control IoT systems in your house.

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