Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2024

Alabama’s education superintendent disclosed a data breach following a hacking attempt on the Alabama State Department of Education. The Alabama State Department of Education announced it had thwarted a ransomware attack on June 17, however, threat actors accessed some data and disrupted services before the attack was stopped.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Meanwhile, only partially redacted names of CIA employees were sent over an unclassified email account. DOGE personnel are also reported to be feeding Education Department data into artificial intelligence software, and they have also started working at the Department of Energy. This story is moving very fast.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. They had no authorization to convert or decode, so this was clearly a hack.” On Wednesday, the St.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The attackers employ a phishing technique called device code phishing, which tricks users into logging into productivity apps while capturing login tokens that can be used to take over compromised accounts. ” Device code phishing attacks exploit authentication flows to steal tokens, granting attackers access to accounts and data. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. co saying he could be hired to perform fake EDRs on targets at will, provided the account was recently active.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Ueland said after hearing about the escrow.com hack Monday evening he pulled the domain name system (DNS) records for escrow.com and saw they were pointing to an Internet address in Malaysia — 111.90.149[.]49 com was identical to the one displayed by escrow.com while the site’s DNS records were hacked.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The details of the Krispy Kreme hack are still emerging, but the companys Form 8-K filing brought the incident to light, offering a rare glimpse into the challenges businesses face when their systems are compromised. The Krispy Kreme hack is a sobering reminder that no industry is immune to cyber threats.

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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 word ‘ransomware’ has been put on a par with a number of unpleasant phenomena, such as geopolitical tensions, extortion, and government-backed hacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2022

Unfortunately, brackets create opportunities for a wide array of phishing and hacking campaigns, particularly in workplaces where a lot of brackets are distributed. The potential for hacks and scams is limited to the imagination of the person or group performing them. Keep employee email accounts up to date.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online. Cyber intelligence platform Constella Intelligence told KrebsOnSecurity that the operns@gmail.com address was used in 2016 to register an account at filmai.in , which is a movie streaming service catering to Lithuanian speakers. com (2017).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

Google announced that its Authenticator app for Android and iOS now supports Google Account synchronization. Google announced that its Google Authenticator app for both iOS and Android now supports Google Account synchronization that allows to safely backup users one-time codes to their Google Account.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Spanish National Police has arrested eight alleged members of a crime organization who were able to steal money from the bank accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Threat actors are gaining access to AT&T email accounts in an attempt to hack into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange accounts. Some users with AT&T email addresses wrote on Reddit that they have been hacked, and some of them claim they had the same issue for months.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

The IT giant also announced it has banned 173k developer accounts and prevented over $2 billion in fraudulent and abusive transactions. Google announced that it prevented 1.43 million policy-violating applications from being published on Google Play in 2022. ” states the report published by Google.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. In 2017, crooks launched a phishing campaign against universities to compromise.edu accounts. ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

Microsoft warns of a new Remcos RAT campaign targeting US accounting and tax return preparation firms ahead of Tax Day. Tax Day, Microsoft has observed a new Remcos RAT campaign targeting US accounting and tax return preparation firms. Ahead of the U.S. The phishing attacks began in February 2023, the IT giant reported. LNK) files.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

A flaw in Microsoft Azure could be exploited by attackers to gain access to storage accounts, perform lateral movements, and even execute remote code. Researchers from the security firm Orca demonstrated how to abuse Microsoft Azure Shared Key authorization to gain full access to storage accounts and potentially critical business assets.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

Google announced the introduction of the passwordless secure sign-in with Passkeys for Google Accounts on all platforms. Google is rolling out the passwordless secure sign-in with Passkeys for Google Accounts on all platforms. In 2022, Google announced it would begin work to support passkeys on its platform to replace passwords.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This is where the "more than 23,000 hacked databases" headlines come from as this is how many files are in the archive. I'm going to highlight one particular row that used a Mailinator address simply because Mailinator accounts are public email addresses where there is no expectation whatsoever of privacy. But is it legit?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Akira ransomware has been active since March 2023, the threat actors behind the malware claim to have already hacked multiple organizations in multiple industries, including education, finance, and real estate. Sophos researchers observed in May the threat actor using compromised Cisco VPN accounts to breach target networks.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

For both dormant and existing businesses, the fraudsters attempt to create or modify the target company’s accounts at Dun & Bradstreet. ” McMahan said the thieves somehow hacked her DNB account, and then began adding new officers and locations for her business listing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

The group continued to carry out password spray attacks targeting the educational sector for infrastructure procurement and focused on the satellite, government, and defense sectors for intelligence gathering. They also leveraged compromised accounts from educational institutions to create additional Azure tenants.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2024

The data compilation was leaked on a popular hacking forum, where it quickly gained notoriety for its sheer size and potential impact. The number represents a significant portion of the world's online user base, raising concerns about the security of countless online accounts across various platforms.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Microsoft thwarted a large-scale hacking campaign carried out by Akira ransomware operators targeting an unknown industrial organization. Microsoft Defender capabilities prevented breached accounts were being used to access endpoints and other resources in the network. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2021

For the past year, BWare has maintained contact with an insider from the criminal group that’s been sending daily lists of would-be victims who are to receive counterfeit checks printed using the real bank account information of legitimate companies. the “car wrap” scam ). ” SHRINKING FROM THE FIREHOSE?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2022

And they use passwords to open a device, a system, an account, a file and so on. Hackers don’t need to hack in, they just log in. A much better way is to integrate an innovative technology that distributes encrypted, unique passwords to the employees that only they can use to access each separate device, account, file, or system.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 28, 2024

In this guide , we are exploring a Python program known as hack CCTV to access publicly available live cameras globally. Python program to access CCTV camera How to hack CCTV cameras , for educational purposes. It is possible to hack any live CCTV camera So, without wasting any more time, let's move to some hands-on.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The City of Brotherly Love discovered an incident on May 24 after noting suspicious activity on city email accounts; but the City just reported the breach days ago. Also, on August 22, 2023, we became aware that the at-issue email accounts include email accounts that may contain protected health information."

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. “Shevlyakov also attempted to acquire computer hacking tools.” hacking tools and electronics appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads a press release published by DoJ.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2023

Probably the best known example is the OMG cable , a $180 hacking device made for professional penetration testers that looks more or less like an Apple or generic USB charging cable. On the other hand, the technology needed to conduct a sneaky juice jacking attack has become far more miniaturized, accessible and cheap.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A source said they’d stumbled upon a way to intercept and read the daily online chats between Aqua and several other mule recruiters and malware purveyors who were stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars weekly from hacked businesses. Your payroll accounts have been hacked, and you’re about to lose a great deal of money.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware has been active since March 2023, the threat actors behind the malware claim to have already hacked multiple organizations in multiple industries, including education, finance, and real estate. In some attacks, threat actors created an administrative account named itadm.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

educational nonprofit organization National Student Clearinghouse disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 900 US schools. The attack is the result of the massive MOVEit hacking campaign that targeted organizations worldwide at the end of May. reads the message published by the gang.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Why and how to protect ourselves Once the credentials are stolen, hackers can use them to access various online accounts, including banking, e-mail, and social media accounts. Use complex and unique passwords: Avoid reusing the same passwords for multiple accounts and use password managers to generate and store secure passwords.

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