Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2025

If he’d abused his access, he probably could have obtained website encryption certificates (SSL/TLS certs) that were authorized to accept and relay web traffic for affected websites. The Russian search giant Yandex reports this user account belongs to an “Ivan I.” MasterCard’s request to Caturegli, a.k.a.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Enter attribute-based encryption ( ABE ) an advanced type of cryptography that’s now ready for prime time. ABE makes it much more difficult to fraudulently decrypt an asset in its entirety; it does this by pulling user and data attributes into the encryption picture — in a way that allows decryption to be flexible.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 10, 2021

The other feature scans all iMessage images sent or received by child accounts — that is, accounts designated as owned by a minor — for sexually explicit material, and if the child is young enough, notifies the parent when these images are sent or received. A third party is alerted if the message meets a certain criteria.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 10, 2025

The most commonly used methods for securing cardholder data are tokenization and encryption. This blog will explore the differences between PCI DSS tokenization vs. encryption, how each method fits into PCI compliance, and the associated PCI DSS encryption requirements and tokenization practices. What Is Encryption?

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Signal has had the ability to manually authenticate another account for years. Once you’ve validated the conversation, your devices maintain a chain of trust in which neither you nor the other person has given any private encryption information to each other or Apple.

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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. Next, the Office of Personnel Management—which holds detailed personal data on millions of federal employees, including those with security clearances— was compromised. After that, Medicaid and Medicare records were compromised.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 22, 2021

If exploited, cyberattackers could bypass security products; install programs; view, change, encrypt or delete data; or create new accounts with more extensive user rights. The bug (CVE-2021-3438) has lurked in systems for 16 years, researchers at SentinelOne said, but was only uncovered this year.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. . But on Nov.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This is significant because in November 2022, LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. KrebsOnSecurity last month interviewed a victim who recently saw more than three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency siphoned from his account.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt. Barrie said the hacker was able to read messages and notes left on escrow.com’s account at GoDaddy that only GoDaddy employees should have been able to see. Running a reverse DNS lookup on this 111.90.149[.]49

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your online accounts wherever feasible. The HaveIBeenPwned project, which collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps containing information about billions of leaked accounts, has incorporated the data into his service. According to a Jan.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 30, 2025

This gives the hacker the information to access your trading capital or, even worse, lock you out of your account. This software can track anything from your keystrokes to login details, potentially allowing hackers to lock you out of your account. Advanced Encryption Protocols Encryptions are really powerful. Enable 2FA.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ghost ransomware actors, identified as operating from China, have been targeting unpatched systems and stolen credentials to infiltrate networks, encrypt data, and demand ransom payments. Strengthening identity security Enforce phishing-resistant MFA for all privileged accounts. Use Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company says an incident at a third-party cloud provider may have exposed customer account information and credentials used to remotely manage Ubiquiti gear. This data may include your name, email address, and the one-way encrypted password to your account (in technical terms, the passwords are hashed and salted).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

When the ATM is no longer in use, the skimming device remains dormant, storing the stolen data in an encrypted format. ” Investigators wanted to look at the data stored on the shimmer, but it was encrypted. But the data dump from the shimmer was just encrypted gibberish.” “MasterCard in the U.K.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 31, 2024

There are no doubt all sorts of politics surrounding it, but even putting all that aside for a moment, the assertion that a platform provider should not be held accountable for moderating content on the platform is just nuts. I still find the reactions to the Telegram situation with Durov's arrest odd.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2025

Quantum computings ability to break todays encryption may still be years awaybut security leaders cant afford to wait. Related: Quantum standards come of age The real threat isnt just the eventual arrival of quantum decryptionits that nation-state actors are already stockpiling encrypted data in harvest now, decrypt later attacks.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The threat actor was also able to copy a backup of customer vault data from the encrypted storage container which is stored in a proprietary binary format that contains both unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

WhatsApp, the Meta-owned, end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, said it has reliable information that nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society were targets of a spyware campaign conducted by the Israeli spyware company. WhatsApp has accused the professional spyware company Paragon of spying on a select group of users.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The security breach exposed low-sensitivity performance monitoring data, including customer usernames, account info, and encrypted internal credentials. A threat actor exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a non-Rackspace utility bundled with the ScienceLogic application. Rackspace helped ScienceLogic address this issue.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

Traditional payment cards encode cardholder account data in plain text on a magnetic stripe, which can be read and recorded by skimming devices or malicious software surreptitiously installed in payment terminals. Newer, chip-based cards employ a technology known as EMV that encrypts the account data stored in the chip.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One last comment: there was a story published earlier this year titled Our Investigation of the Pure Incubation Ventures Leak and in there they refer to "encrypted passwords" being present in the data.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

. “He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. ” The cybercrime-focused Twitter/X account vx-underground said the U.K. A Scattered Spider phishing lure sent to Twilio employees.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 9, 2025

Resolution #3: Protect Privileged Accounts in the Modern Digital Era In the face of evolving cybersecurity threats, protecting privileged accounts is essential. In the face of evolving cybersecurity threats, protecting privileged accounts is essential.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Let's start with a poll: At your place of work, does your employer have the right to access the contents of your corporate email account if necessary? But there's also a lot of consistency, for example, here's a piece on whether it's legal to access an employee's email account in Australia : The short answer is yes.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Users will be given standard user accounts by default. This approach also helps to contain the spread of malware and ransomware, which, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report, resulted in 93% of these attacks being successful due to them having access to so many privileged user accounts.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2021

Someone is selling account information for 21 million customers of ParkMobile , a mobile parking app that’s popular in North America. Gemini shared a new sales thread on a Russian-language crime forum that included my ParkMobile account information in the accompanying screenshot of the stolen data.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Transcript Cookie theft is a cyberattack where hackers exploit session data stored in cookies, like login credentials, to gain unauthorized access to your accounts. With stolen cookies, bad actors can commit identity theft, cause financial loss, and access your accounts. In this video, we’ll show you how to stay safe.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The security breach exposed low-sensitivity performance monitoring data, including customer usernames, account info, and encrypted internal credentials. A threat actor exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a non-Rackspace utility bundled with the ScienceLogic application. Rackspace helped ScienceLogic address this issue.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Most victims must buy Bitcoin on entirely unregulated and free-wheeling exchanges that can also be hacked, leaving buyers’ bank account information stored on these exchanges vulnerable. The arguments for rendering a ransomware payment include: Payment is the least costly option; Payment is in the best interest of stakeholders (e.g.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. account and share the experience here. account). We take a defense-in-depth approach, with partitioned networks, and use very sophisticated encryption scheme so that when and if there is a breach, this stuff is firewalled,” Hall said.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This data reportedly includes everything from names and addresses to Social Security numbers and bank account details. The stolen data reportedly includes highly personal information — names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, bank account details, and even records of residents’ interactions with city services. With over 6.5

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

Both sources said the attackers used the S3 access to copy and exfiltrate several terabytes worth of Sisent customer data, which apparently included millions of access tokens, email account passwords, and even SSL certificates. “If they are telling people to rest credentials, that means it was not encrypted.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

“In December 2022, the above-described commercial online password manager suffered two major data breaches one in August 2022 and one in November 2022 in which the attackers stole encrypted passwords and the online password manager vault data. ” reads the complaint. ” reported KrebsOnSecurity. ” However.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Jogodka said although this pump’s PIN pad is encrypted, the hidden camera sidesteps that security feature. “The PIN pad is encrypted, so this is a NEW way to capture the PIN,” Jogodka wrote in a message to a mailing list about skimming devices found on Arizona fuel pumps.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2025

vip to download AES-encrypted data, which, once decrypted, revealed password spray targets. Microsoft observed a successful account breach where a threat actor used a guest account to create a resource group and over 200 containers for cryptomining. AzureChecker.exe connected to sac-auth[.]nodefunction[.]vip nodefunction[.]vip

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