Krebs on Security

MARCH 21, 2019

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Renfro said the company planned to alert Facebook users today, but that no password resets would be required.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Software giant Citrix Systems recently forced a password reset for many users of its Sharefile content collaboration service, warning it would be doing this on a regular basis in response to password-guessing attacks that target people who re-use passwords across multiple Web sites. periodically). .” periodically).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

Criminals ripping off other crooks is a constant theme in the cybercrime underworld; Accountz Club’s slogan — “the best autoshop for your favorite shops’ accounts” — just normalizes this activity by making logins stolen from users of various cybercrime shops for sale at a fraction of their account balances.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Zacks is an investment research company best known for its “Zacks Ranks,” which are daily lists that provide stock market watchers and likely investors with possible company portfolio purchases, ranked on a scale from one to five. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Often it's related to data breaches or sloppy behaviour on behalf of some online service playing fast and loose with HTTPS or passwords or some other easily observable security posture. It's totally going to kill passwords! I know, massive shock right?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

On January 29, the FBI and the Dutch national police seized the technical infrastructure for a cybercrime service marketed under the brands Heartsender , Fudpage and Fudtools (and many other “fud” variations). One of several current Fudtools sites run by the principals of The Manipulators.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many companies had uploaded sensitive customer records to accounts at the cloud data storage service Snowflake that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed).

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I've been giving a bunch of thought to passwords lately. Here we have this absolute cornerstone of security - a paradigm that every single person with an online account understands - yet we see fundamentally different approaches to how services handle them. Some won't let you paste a password. Some have strict complexity rules.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

USDoD claimed they grabbed the data by using passwords stolen from a Turkish airline employee who had third-party access to Airbus’ systems. By stealing these tokens, attackers can often reuse them in their own web browser, and bypass any authentication normally required for that account. Microsoft Corp. government inboxes.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

They also accused Vrublevsky of facilitating money laundering for Hydra , the largest Russian darknet market at the time. Russian authorities allege Vrublevsky operated several fraudulent SMS-based payment schemes. Incredibly, the day after our initial interview via Telegram, Shefel proposed going into business together. ” he inquired.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It's the old "data is the new oil" analogy that recognises how valuable our info is, and as such, there's a market for it. As I said, our IT department recently notified me that some of my data was leaked and a pre-emptive password reset was enforced as they didn't know what was leaked. 

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

A California company that helps telemarketing firms avoid getting sued for violating a federal law that seeks to curb robocalls has leaked the phone numbers, email addresses and passwords of all its customers, as well as the mobile phone numbers and other data on people who have hired lawyers to go after telemarketers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Rockstar 2FA targets Microsoft 365 accounts and bypasses multi-factor authentication with adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. The proxy server allows attackers to access the traffic and capture the target’s password and the session cookie. The Rockstar 2FA PhaaS is an updated version of the DadSec/Phoenix phishing kit.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 16, 2021

Lucky225 showed how anyone could do the same after creating an account at a service called Sakari , a company that helps celebrities and businesses do SMS marketing and mass messaging. From there, the attacker can reset the password of any account which uses that phone number for password reset links.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. Password re-use becomes orders of magnitude more dangerous when website developers engage in this unsafe practice.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

And in March 2023, Faceless started marketing a service for looking up Social Security Numbers (SSNs) that claims to provide access to “the largest SSN database on the market with a very high hit rate.” MrMurza also told the admin that his account number at the now-defunct virtual currency Liberty Reserve was U1018928.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The service, marketed in the underground under the name “ SMS Bandits ,” has been responsible for blasting out huge volumes of phishing lures spoofing everything from COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts to PayPal, telecommunications providers and tax revenue agencies. .” ” SMS Bandits offered an SMS phishing (a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

Try2Check was so reliable that it eventually became the official card-checking service for some of the underground’s most bustling crime bazaars, including Vault Market, Unicc , and Joker’s Stash. ” That handle used the same ICQ instant messenger account number ( 555724 ) as a Mazafaka denizen named “ Nordex.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many large companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). government agencies and first responders. “The rest is just ransom.”

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 8, 2022

The average internet user has somewhere around 100 accounts, according to NordPass research, meaning they have to track 100 different passwords or risk using the same one over and over. Users can share password files securely with encrypted transmissions. Vault health reports Directory sync Secure password sharing.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon , a popular “malware-as-a-service” offering that helped paying customers steal passwords and financial data from millions of cybercrime victims. stolen with the help of Raccoon.

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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. Data Breaches Data breaches are fairly common among cybercriminals who break into a platforms database and steal sensitive information like personal details, passwords and financial data. Monitor your accounts regularly.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2024

High profile TikTok accounts, including CNN, Sony, and—er­—Paris Hilton have been targeted in a recent attack. CNN was the first account takeover that made the news, with Semafor reporting that the account was down for several days after the incident. The account is then taken over and the user loses access.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2019

Enable two-factor authentication for all important accounts whenever possible. Don't reuse passwords for anything important -- ­and get a password manager to remember them all. Watch your credit reports and your bank accounts for suspicious activity.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

For the past three years, the source — we’ll call him “Bill” to preserve his requested anonymity — has been watching one group of threat actors that is mass-testing millions of usernames and passwords against the world’s major email providers each day. Why go after hotel or airline rewards?

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

The Telegram black market: what’s on offer After reviewing phishers’ Telegram channels that we detected, we broke down the services they promoted into paid and free. We filled in the login and password fields in the screenshot below. An OTP (one-time password) bot is another service available by subscription.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

•Use strong passwords. It is essential to ensure that all accounts are protected with strong passwords. To this day, a significant amount of people still use the password across multiple accounts, which makes it much simpler for a cybercriminal to compromise a password and take over accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab estimated that by the time the program ceased operations, GandCrab accounted for up to half of the global ransomware market. ru , a site which marketed dedicated Web servers to individuals involved in various cybercrime projects. us to help users obfuscate their true online locations.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

All the company’s social media accounts haven’t been updated since 2023 at the latest. In 2018, MyHeritage suffered a security incident which exposed the email addresses and hashed passwords of 92 million users. Lie if you must and create a separate free email account so the information can’t be tied to your main account.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Rockstar 2FA targets Microsoft 365 accounts and bypasses multi-factor authentication with adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. The proxy server allows attackers to access the traffic and capture the target’s password and the session cookie. The Rockstar 2FA PhaaS is an updated version of the DadSec/Phoenix phishing kit.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. Constella also shows the email address zankomario@gmail.com used the password “dugidox2407.”

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 7, 2021

Credential stuffing is a type of advanced brute force hacking that leverages software automation to insert stolen usernames and passwords into web page forms, at scale, until the attacker gains access to a targeted account. Many attacks on gaming happen because of credential stuffing, which leads to direct ATO or Account Takeover.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 22, 2022

I read through that last one live in this week's video and as you'll hear, a breach of any kind is never a good look but what stands out for me about this one isn't the breach itself, rather the marketing effort SOCRadar has made around it. As I say in the video, it just feels. See if you agree.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The plaintiffs wanted to investigate possible racial discrimination in online job markets by creating accounts for fake employers and job seekers. Someone violates the CFAA when they bypass an access restriction like a password.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Unlike any other season in America, election season might bring the highest volume of advertisements sent directly to people’s homes, phones, and email accounts—and the accuracy and speed at which they come can feel invasive. The reasons could be obvious. Watch out for fake emails and text messages.

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