eSecurity Planet

MARCH 24, 2025

A sophisticated supply chain hack targeting Oracle Cloud has exfiltrated a staggering 6 million records. The initial access was gained by hacking the login endpoint (login.(region-name).oraclecloud.com), Beyond mass data exposure, there are heightened risks of credential compromise, corporate espionage, and potential extortion.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. A screenshot of a Discord discussion between the key Twitter hacker “Kirk” and several people seeking to hijack high-value Twitter accounts.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Instagram has revolutionized the way we share our lives online, but with its growing popularity comes an increased risk of cyber threats. 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. Unusual direct messages sent to followers.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Typically, I create the public and private keypair on my laptop and upload the public key to Amazon, which bakes my public key into the server’s administrator account. By deleting the data, I have removed a security risk from the server and its security has increased. But if I delete that private key, the vulnerability goes away.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

What follows is a set of basic security hygiene steps that will significantly reduce your risk online. Many people get hacked from having guessable or previously compromised passwords. Good passwords are long, random, and unique to each account, which means it’s impossible for a human to manage them on their own.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself. Department of Defense. USDoD’s InfraGard sales thread on Breached.

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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. But the SEC’s latest actions underscore that failing to inform stakeholders about material risks and breaches is not an option.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

The threat of bad actors hacking into airplane systems mid-flight has become a major concern for airlines and operators worldwide. Here’s what you should know about the risks, what aviation is doing to address those risks, and how to overcome them. It is difficult to deny that cyberthreats are a risk to planes.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The investigation revealed that attackers had compromised an account associated with a third-party provider of support services. Then GrubHub locked out the attackers and removed the hacked account. Upon discovery, we promptly launched an investigation, identifying unauthorized access to an account associated with this provider.”

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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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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

But amidst all these flashy, futuristic threats, the biggest cybersecurity risk remains the same as it's always beenhumans. it's WAY easier to hack minds than networks. The cybersecurity industry has spent billions on technical defenses, yet human errors still account for 80-90% of breaches. The solution?

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

Experian, 2013 – 2015: Hackers stole a trove of information from T-Mobile customers whose data had passed through Experian to check credit there and open a new account. If a company is hacked, you’re essentially out of luck. Also review bank accounts and credit cards for unauthorized activity. Takeaways .

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 19, 2020

Hundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached or stolen. Both are avid gamers on Microsoft’s Xbox platform, and for years their father managed their accounts via his own Microsoft account.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. Abusewith[.]us

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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.

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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. The SEC charged the companies with "materially misleading disclosures regarding cybersecurity risks and intrusions."

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

The new ransomware group Arkana Security claims to have hacked US telecom provider WOW!, The Arkana group recently appeared in the threat landscape, claiming to perform post-pentest services, and offering data security, and risk management services. million accounts. stealing customer data. WideOpenWest (WOW!) ” WOW!

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

This week, Sophos researchers warned that ransomware operators are exploiting the critical vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 in Veeam Backup & Replication to create rogue accounts and deploy malware. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

CVE-2024-5910 – In July, Palo Alto Networks released security updates to address five security flaws impacting its products, the most severe issue, tracked as CVE-2024-5910 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a missing authentication for a critical function in Palo Alto Networks Expedition that can lead to an admin account takeover.

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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. Each day of continued unrestricted access makes the eventual recovery more difficult and increases the risk of irreversible damage to these critical systems. After that, Medicaid and Medicare records were compromised.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Thanks to a couple of milestone hacks disclosed at the close of 2020 and start of 2021, they will forever be associated with putting supply-chain vulnerabilities on the map. Similarly, the SolarWinds and Mimecast hacks are precursors of increasingly clever and deeply-damaging hacks of the global supply chain sure to come.

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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. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA ) Rackspace helped ScienceLogic address this issue.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

The FBI Denver Field Office advises staying cautious online, being aware of potential risks, and keeping antivirus software updated to scan files before opening them. If users fall victim to this scam, immediately contact their financial institutions, secure their accounts, and change all passwords using a trusted device.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 12, 2020

This is a weird story : Hernandez was able to evade capture for so long because he used Tails, a version of Linux designed for users at high risk of surveillance and which routes all inbound and outbound connections through the open-source Tor network to anonymize it. I'm fine with the FBI using vulnerabilities: lawful hacking , it's called.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 31, 2022

Related: Log4J’s long-run risks. It supplies a unified vulnerability and risk management solution that automates vulnerability management processes and workflows. This kind of thing can be rectified by adopting risk-assessment principles alongside CD/CI. Risk-tolerance security. That’s changing — dramatically.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta 251 million ($263M) for a 2018 data breach impacting 29 million Facebook accounts. “This data breach impacted approximately 29 million Facebook accounts globally, of which approximately 3 million were based in the EU/EEA. ” reads the press release published by DPC.

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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. When confronted with a ransomware attack, the options all seem bleak.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A long supply chain adds third-party risks, as each partner’s security affects your own, making identity and access management more challenging. While conventional “internal” employees account for 29% of identities, non-employees or “external identities” in aggregate (contractors, vendors, etc.)

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

” When security experts began raising the alarm about a possible zero-day in Barracuda’s products, the Chinese hacking group altered their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) in response to Barracuda’s efforts to contain and remediate the incident, Mandiant found.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It becomes increasingly difficult to gain complete visibility or transparency that could help security and privacy teams discover sensitive data, identify its security and compliance postures, and mitigate risks. To add to the difficulty, the advent of Generative AI (GenAI) has brought unprecedented security and privacy risks.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. Yet, boardroom focus on cyber risk appears to be diminishing. trillion by 2025, a 300% increase since 2015 1.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

T-Mobile confirmed being a victim of recent hacking campaigns linked to China-based threat actors targeting telecom companies. T-Mobile confirms it was hacked as part of a long-running cyber espionage campaign targeting Telco companies. The security breach poses a major national security risk. Wall Street Journal reported.

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