Krebs on Security

MAY 30, 2023

A number of Discord communities focused on cryptocurrency have been hacked this past month after their administrators were tricked into running malicious Javascript code disguised as a Web browser bookmark. Scavuzzo said the administrator’s account was hijacked even though she had multi-factor authentication turned on.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. The phishers also abused legitimate Google services to send Tony an email from google.com, and to send a Google account recovery prompt to all of his signed-in devices.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 2, 2021

The first is from Microsoft, which wrote : As part of our investigation into this ongoing activity, we also detected information-stealing malware on a machine belonging to one of our customer support agents with access to basic account information for a small number of our customers.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Tuesday that it has fined four companies $7 million for misleading statements about their cybersecurity incidents, particularly concerning the high-profile 2019 SolarWinds hack. Downplaying the extent of a material cybersecurity breach is a bad strategy," Tenreiro said.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

” This is related to the SolarWinds hack I have previously written about , and represents one of the techniques the SVR is using once it has gained access to target networks. From the summary : Malicious cyberactors are abusing trust in federated authentication environments to access protected data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

According to The Guardian , which first reported the incident,hackers may have accessed company customers emails along with usernames, passwords and personal details of top accountancy firms blue-chip clients. The newspaper described the breach as a deep embarrassment due to the efforts of the firm in the cybersecurity industry.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

In each incident, the intruders have left behind a “web shell,” an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser. Speaking on condition of anonymity, two cybersecurity experts who’ve briefed U.S.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 26, 2024

If your account falls into the wrong hands, it can lead to the loss of personal memories, private messages, or even a damaged online reputation. While hacking attempts continue to evolve, so do the strategies to secure your account. What to Watch For: Sudden changes in account settings, such as linked emails or phone numbers.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Gen AI threats and quantum computing exposures must be accounted for. Meanwhile, while business logic hacks, supply chain holes, and cyber extortion continue to loom large. Alkove Jim Alkove , CEO, Oleria Identity is cybersecurity’s biggest challenge. Attackers arent hacking in theyre logging in.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2025

Matthew Weiss, former football coach for the University of Michigan and the Baltimore Ravens, for almost 10 years accessed the social media and other online accounts of thousands of student athletes and downloaded personal information and intimate images, said prosecutors who indicted for illegal computer access and identity theft.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 13, 2021

Of note, TA453 also targeted the personal email accounts of at least one of their targets. Once the conversation was established, TA453 delivered a “registration link” to a legitimate but compromised website belonging to the University of London’s SOAS radio.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Without robust IT budgets or fully staffed cybersecurity departments, small businesses often rely on their own small stable of workers (including sole proprietors with effectively zero employees) to stay safe online. That means that what worries these businesses most in cybersecurity is what is most likely to work against them.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 31, 2022

This is a fun story, detailing the hack a group of high school students perpetrated against an Illinois school district, hacking 500 screens across a bunch of schools. Eventually, he decided to use his real name, while other members created anonymous accounts.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

That transaction included credentials to a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) account apparently set up by a Gunnebo Group employee who wished to access the company’s internal network remotely. Five months later, Gunnebo disclosed it had suffered a cyber attack targeting its IT systems that forced the shutdown of internal servers.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently laid down the hammer charging and fining four prominent cybersecurity vendors for making misleading claims in connection with the SolarWinds hack. Joe Nicastro , Field CTO, Legit Security Nicastro Transparency in cybersecurity remains a complex balancing act.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

While conventional “internal” employees account for 29% of identities, non-employees or “external identities” in aggregate (contractors, vendors, etc.) account for nearly half of the total users (48%). And therein lies the problem: Your enterprise could be at risk if their credentials are unsafe.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The ICRC said the hacked servers contained data relating to the organization’s Restoring Family Links services, which works to reconnect people separated by war, violence, migration and other causes. .” In their online statement about the hack (updated on Feb. Image: Ke-la.com. ” Update, 2:00 p.m., com, sachtimes[.]com,

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 7, 2022

A mischievous hacker, or group of hackers, took over Disneyland’s official Instagram and Facebook accounts earlier today, and, apparently, defaced them both with a series of profane and racist posts. Walt Disney Company has confirmed the breach, which appears to have occurred around 7 AM US Eastern time.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 19, 2025

While this might protect our mental bandwidth, and in some cases help us avoid hacking attempts via exhaustion tactics, it also has unintended consequenceswhen it comes to cybersecurity. For instance, we’ve already seen: A deepfake of a company executive instructing employees to transfer funds to a fraudulent account.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The press is reporting a massive hack of US government networks by sophisticated Russian hackers. Officials said a hunt was on to determine if other parts of the government had been affected by what looked to be one of the most sophisticated, and perhaps among the largest, attacks on federal systems in the past five years.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

But amidst all these flashy, futuristic threats, the biggest cybersecurity risk remains the same as it's always beenhumans. Cybersecurity Through Human Behaviour just confirmed what most of us in the field already know: Cybersecurity isn't just a tech problemit's a behavior problem. it's WAY easier to hack minds than networks.

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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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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2020

This makes the data more likely to be hacked and stolen. Business email compromise scams -- where crooks impersonate a CEO or other senior staff member and then try to trick workers into sending money to their accounts -- could be made easier if staff primarily rely on email to communicate while at home.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2025

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the flaw CVE-2021-20035 , to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Threat actors were spotted exploiting the default super admin account (admin@LocalDomain), which often still uses the weak default password password. This week, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The two infostealers allowed operators to harvest usernames, passwords, contact info, and crypto-wallets from victims, the threat actors sold this data to criminals for financial theft and hacking. Use a password manager : Simplifies managing strong, unique passwords across accounts. payment info) may have been compromised.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This made the need for strengthening cybersecurity so apparent to everyone that U.S. The best approach one can adopt is always having cybersecurity at the forefront of their mind whichever aspect of their business they approach. The intersection of localization and cybersecurity Now, how does localization affect cybersecurity?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

Cybercriminals exploit compromised accounts for EDR-as-a-Service (Emergency Data Requests – EDR), targeting major platforms According to a detailed analysis conducted by Meridian Group, an increasingly complex and structured phenomenon, commonly referred to as EDR-as-a-Service, is taking hold in the cybersecurity landscape.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 24, 2022

The new policy states explicitly the longstanding practice that “the department’s goals for CFAA enforcement are to promote privacy and cybersecurity by upholding the legal right of individuals, network owners, operators, and other persons to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information stored in their information systems.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Veeam Backup and Replication vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the Veeam Backup and Replication flaw CVE-2024-40711 (CVSS score of 9.8) reads the advisory.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 2, 2025

The hack, attributed to a cybercriminal operating under the alias GHNA, occurred when the attacker accessed a system used by Samsungs German customer service. According to cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock, the hack was made possible by a set of stolen credentials compromised in 2021. How can malicious actors exploit this?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2024

” The vulnerability was discovered by the cybersecurity researcher Nicolai Rybnikar Rybnikar Enterprises GmbH. The fixed version sets a randomly-generated password for the duration of the image build and it disables the builder account at the conclusion of the image build. The flaw has been fixed in version 0.1.38.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2025

Cybersecurity experts were able to exploit misconfiguration in vulnerable web-app used by ransomware operators to publish victims data – leading to clearnet IP addresses disclosure related to their network infrastructure behind TOR hidden services (hosting them) and additional service information acquired from server-side.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2021

“Identifying IT and OT assets is a critical first step in improving cybersecurity,” the report concluded. In April, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment against a 22-year-old from Kansas who’s accused of hacking into a public water system in 2019. percent working to do so. Image: WaterISAC.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Data breaches and account hacks are a growing concern for users, especially with the personal and professional information shared on the platform. If youre worried about your Instagram account being hacked , it's essential to take proactive steps to protect your data.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Researchers warn that the whoAMI attack lets attackers publish an AMI with a specific name to execute code in an AWS account. The researchers warn that, at scale, this attack could impact thousands of AWS accounts, with around 1% of organizations estimated to be vulnerable. ” reads the advisory published by the company.

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