Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2025

The law firm pointed out that it has no evidence the exposed data has been misused. The law firm recommends individuals to monitor accounts and credit reports for identity theft or fraud. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,data breach)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

A hacker going online by the moniker AmFearLiathMor is claiming to have hacked the most popular end-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail. At the time it is not clear if the hacker belongs to a cyber crime gang, it claims to have stolen a “significant” amounts of data from the company. The ransom demand ( archive.is

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Our investigation indicates that certain information associated with your account was impacted.” ” reads the data breach notification email sent to the impacted customers. “Mint’s data collection policy is one of the most important ways in which we ensure the privacy and security of our subscribers.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

The company’s investigation determined that social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers and/or financial account numbers may have been accessed or acquired. For this reason – unlike [how] it appears in this case – organizations are wise to limit the amount of data kept and stored in systems,” Kron said. “For

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. “We are reaching out to let you know about a security incident we recently identified and quickly shut down that may have impacted some of your T-Mobile account information.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, T-Mobile).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

net available at the Wayback Machine shows that in 2016 this domain was used for the “ ExE Bucks ” affiliate program, a pay-per-install business which catered to people already running large collections of hacked computers or compromised websites. Others are fairly opaque about their data collection and retention policies.

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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. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2024

New York Times source code compromised via exposed GitHub token SolarWinds fixed multiple flaws in Serv-U and SolarWinds Platform Pandabuy was extorted twice by the same threat actor UAC-0020 threat actor used the SPECTR Malware to target Ukraine’s defense forces Chinese threat actor exploits old ThinkPHP flaws since October 2023 A new Linux (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Researchers discovered that analytics data associated with iPhone include Directory Services Identifier (DSID) that could allow identifying users. Researchers at software company Mysk discovered that analytics data collected by iPhone include the Directory Services Identifier (DSID), which could allow identifying users.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2021

Related: Credential stuffing fuels account takeovers. But, unfortunately, we live in a world of constant hacking attempts and security breaches. Breaches to multiple accounts that share the same or similar passwords. Stolen passwords that can lead to data leaks. We celebrated World Password Day on May 6, 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Thirteen exchanges were hacked in 2017 and in the first three quarters of 2018, amounting to a total loss of $877 million. The company’s records indicate that dumps account for 62% of data sold, which means that POS Trojans are the main method of compromising plastic cards. Attacks on Crypto. About the author Group-IB.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2024

“According to the complaint, from 2019 to the present, TikTok knowingly permitted children to create regular TikTok accounts and to create, view, and share short-form videos and messages with adults and others on the regular TikTok platform. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The scripts developed by the cyber criminal were used to parse log data collected from botnet and searched for personally identifiable information (PII) and account credentials. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Aleksandr Brovko). In some cases, the man manually chacked the stolen information. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Italy’s antitrust regulator has fined both Apple and Google €10 million each for what it calls are “aggressive” data practices and not providing consumers with clear information on commercial uses of their personal data during the account creation phase. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Apple).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The data collected unearthed a total of 1771 ransomware claims, with 55 recorded incidents in Italy. This report offers an exhaustive account of ransomware threats in the third quarter of 2023, spotlighting activities monitored by the OSINT Ransomfeed platform. Let us now delve into the detailed breakdown of the days.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2021

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Pierluigi Paganini. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 297 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 15, 2024

In what could be one of the largest data breaches in history, personal information of potentially billions of individuals may have been compromised in a hack of National Public Data (NPD), a Florida-based background check company. The hackers initially offered this data for sale on the dark web for $3.5

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2021

This is an enormous amount of data collected from a few small, not well-known mobile games.” ” On Thursday, the team said that users of the following games were involved in the data leak: Rainbow Story: Fantasy MMORPG, Metamorph M, and Dynasty Heroes: Legends of Samkok. Together, they account for over 1.6

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2020

PAM governs a hierarchy of privileged accounts all tied together in a Windows Active Directory ( AD ) environment. It didn’t take cyber criminals too long to figure out how to subvert PAM and AD – mainly by stealing or spoofing credentials to log on to privileged accounts. But SSO proved to be a boon for intruders, as well.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has hacked eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between since May 2023. ’ The CERT-UA also reported that the state-sponsored hackers used compromised VPN accounts that weren’t protected by multi-factor authentication. ” reads the advisory published by the CERT-UA.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

Attackers also manipulate local Administrator accounts to maintain persistence, they were spotted enabling the disabled local Administrator account, followed by resetting its password. However, the exact persistence mechanisms remain unclear due to insufficient forensic data.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The report provides insights into factors influencing user consent for data collection and usage and reasons for consumer disengagement. More than half (55%) claimed that reducing unnecessary data collection was an additional factor that would help them gain trust in a company or brand.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This article delves deep into the settings and privacy policies of LLM-based chatbots to find out how they collect and store conversation histories, and how office workers who use them can protect or compromise company and customer data. The user creates an account and gains access to the bot. Account hacking.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Altogether, Meduza makes a great competitor to Azorult , Redline , Racoon , and Vidar Stealer used by cybercriminals for account takeover (ATO), online-banking theft, and financial fraud. The author behind Meduza distributed the following notification about the update on multiple underground communities and Telegram group: Attention!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

“Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when, in fact, Google continued to collect their location information. Location data represent the core of the digital advertising business of the IT giant. SecurityAffairs – hacking, privacy). not hidden); and.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Consider, for example, a 2013 Massachusetts bill that tried to restrict the commercial use of data collected from K-12 students using services accessed via the internet. Another word for a strategy like this is a “hack.” ” Hacks follow the rules of a system but subvert their intent.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

“In one case, we observed a SapphireStealer sample where the data collected using the previously described process was exfiltrated using the Discord webhook API, a method we previously highlighted here.” The FUD-Loader malware downloader was also published by the same GitHub account. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

percent of all the data collected, followed by TP-Link that accounted for 9.07%. The Chimay Red hacking tool leverages 2 exploits, the Winbox Any Directory File Read (CVE-2018-14847) and Webfig Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. . Security Affairs – IoT devices, hacking ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

Having policies and procedures to secure social media accounts and minimise the potential for incidents can help. Recently, a client with several different social media accounts and a large team of people working on them approached BH Consulting to review its security and policies around them. Another risk is social media hacking.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Such revelations create intrigue as to whether a more insidious actor could perform a similar hack in order to conduct industrial espionage by spying on development and production activity.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). Opened email lets spy in. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The data breach impacted 562,000 subscribers, the forum has been taken offline after the incident. We’ve been alerted that portions of the PHPBB user table from our forums showed up in a leaked data collection.” New breach: XKCD had 562k accounts breached last month. The xkcd forums are currently offline.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 20, 2024

The company allegedly obtained this information from non-public sources without the consent of the person filing the complaint or the potentially billions of others affected by the data collection. The group asserted that these records included personal data from U.S., Canadian, and British citizens.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Avast experts were able to capture several PNG files embedding a data-stealing payload. They pointed out that data collection from victims’ machines using DropBox repository, and attackers use DropBox API for communication with the final stage. They steal data via the DropBox account registered on active Google emails.”

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