Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Actually, I'll rephrase that: because he was a normal guy; he's not normal anymore because yesterday I carved out some time to give him an early Christmas present: Today I spent an hour getting a mate into @1Password. Not upset, that was still a great value Christmas present, but this is, well, literally twice as great value!

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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.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 13, 2021

These connection attempts were detailed and extensive, often including lengthy conversations prior to presenting the next stage in the attack chain. Of note, TA453 also targeted the personal email accounts of at least one of their targets. The compromised site was configured to capture a variety of credentials.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 1, 2020

closed or ia idk | BLM (@pjnkmin) May 31, 2020 Just to be clear: there's not necessarily a direct link between whoever put the video above together and the data now doing the rounds and attribution is tricky once you get a bunch of different people under different accounts and pseudonyms all flying the "Anonymous" banner. Verifications.io

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Security professionals agree that passwords are low hanging fruit for cybercriminals and can even be the keys to the kingdom when the compromised passwords belong to privileged accounts. Add to this, the risks of weak authentication factors such as SMS one-time passcodes and dormant or inactive accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2020

On the plus side, months of quarantine have massively decreased demand for account information that thieves buy and use to create physical counterfeit credit cards. Alforov said the median price for card-present data has dropped precipitously over the past few months.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2024

BingoMod is a new Android malware that can wipe devices after stealing money from the victims’ bank accounts. Researchers at Cleafy discovered a new Android malware, called ‘BingoMod,’ that can wipe devices after successfully stealing money from the victims’ bank accounts.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 23, 2020

On Friday, April 17, Mitch received a call from what he thought was his financial institution, warning him that fraud had been detected on his account. So while still on the phone with the caller, he quickly logged into his account and saw that there were indeed multiple unauthorized transactions going back several weeks.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 16, 2024

Multiple security missteps were present in the course of this campaign, including the following: Exposing environment variables, using long-lived credentials, and absence A large-scale extortion campaign has compromised various organizations by taking advantage of publicly accessible environment variable files (.env)

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Schneier on Security

JULY 14, 2022

Instead, the hack analyzes subtle features of a potential target’s browser activity to determine whether they are logged into an account for an array of services, from YouTube and Dropbox to Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and more. Plus the attacks work against every major browser, including the anonymity-focused Tor Browser. […].

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 6, 2024

Men report facing more pressure than women—and more threats of retaliation—to grant access to their locations and online accounts when in a committed relationship, according to a new analysis of data released this summer by Malwarebytes. That rate was 12% for women.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2024

.” The mass-extortion of Incognito Market users comes just days after a large number of users reported they were no longer able to withdraw funds from their buyer or seller accounts. Creating a new account on Incognito Market presents one with an ad for 5 grams of heroin selling for $450.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The idea is that even if the user’s password gets stolen, the attacker still can’t access the user’s account without that second factor — i.e. without access to the victim’s mobile device or phone number. The OTP interception service featured earlier this year — Otp[.]agency

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2021

Ann Billings was dating Mr. Herring and was present when the police surrounded his home. Herring said her husband — who was killed by people who wanted to steal his account — had a habit of registering new Instagram usernames as presents for friends and family members who’d just had children.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For the most popular operating system in the world—which is Android and it isn’t even a contest —there’s a sneaky cyberthreat that can empty out a person’s bank accounts to fill the illicit coffers of cybercriminals. The ATS framework uses the harvested credentials to initiate unauthorized money transfers to accounts held by the attacker.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The disclosure comes almost a year after Citrix acknowledged that digital intruders had broken in by probing its employee accounts for weak passwords. Resecurity also presented evidence that it notified Citrix of the breach as early as Dec. 28, 2018, a claim Citrix initially denied but later acknowledged.

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Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Scammers stole over $25 million from a multinational business by utilizing cutting-edge real-time video deepfake technology to convince an employee in the firm’s accounts-payable department that the worker had properly validated a payment request previously sent to him via email. Million USD at the time of the theft and at present).

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 26, 2022

For those unfamiliar with it, Google Voice is a phone service that offers a free phone number to anyone who has both set up a Google account in the United States and supplied and confirmed ownership of another phone number to which the Google Voice number can forward. What if you already were scammed?

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 2, 2023

“May the present year’s curses end as it ends, and may the upcoming year’s blessings begin as it begins.”. Having stated that publicly I am now accountable!). This ancient aphorism from the Talmud is one of my favorite pieces of advice regarding the start of a new year.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 10, 2022

Instead of you being presented with a website—which could be malicious—that you then enter credentials into, you instead navigate to the legitimate website like usual, and then you get prompted to authenticate. It completely changes how authentication is done. Join the Unsupervised Learning Community.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

They sent me a file with 207k scraped records and a URL that looked like this: [link] But they didn't send me my account, in fact I didn't even have an account at the time and if I'm honest, I had to go and look up exactly what Spoutible was. nZNQcqsEYki", Oh wow!

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.” . “An attacker could craft a malicious ActiveX control to be used by a Microsoft Office document that hosts the browser rendering engine,” Microsoft wrote.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“Among these 48 recovered residential proxies IP addresses, 28 (58.3%) of those were already present in our sinkhole systems, associated with the Mylobot malware family,” Arnoud continued. The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. “Didn’t we try to retrieve this account?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , Megatraffer has been active on more than a half-dozen crime forums from September 2009 to the present day. That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” user account — this one on Verified[.]ru account on Carder[.]su

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

” That handle used the same ICQ instant messenger account number ( 555724 ) as a Mazafaka denizen named “ Nordex.” ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. In 2017, U.S. Constella tracked another Bankir[.]com

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 3, 2022

I opened-sourced it, took a bunch of PRs, built out the API to present increasingly inane password complexity criteria then left it at that. Each attempt at creating an account sends off the password only to the original Password Purgatory API I created months ago, after which it responds with the next set of criteria.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 31, 2022

” “The District views this incident as a penetration test, and the students involved presented the data in a professional manner,” the spokesperson says, adding that its tech team has made changes to avoid anything similar happening again in the future.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2021

NYSE:UI] disclosed that a breach at a third party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. 24, he reportedly maintained his innocence and told agents someone else must have used his Paypal account to purchase the Surfshark VPN subscription. In January 2021, technology vendor Ubiquiti Inc.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 2, 2021

But there is a similarly serious zero-day flaw present in a much broader range of newer Western Digital MyCloud network storage devices that will remain unfixed for many customers who can’t or won’t upgrade to the latest operating system. The researchers said Western Digital never responded to their reports.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In almost any database leak, the first accounts listed are usually the administrators and early core members. In a retrospective post published to Livejournal in 2014 titled, “Mazafaka, from conception to the present day,” Stalker said Djamix had become a core member of the community.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While modern Microsoft Windows operating systems by default will ask users whether they want to run a downloaded executable file, many systems set up for remote administration by MSPs disable that user account control feature for this particular application. build and the then-canary 22.9

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2021

Experian says it has plugged the data leak, but the researcher who reported the finding says he fears the same weakness may be present at countless other lending websites that work with the credit bureau. “Too many consumer finance company accounts,” the API concluded about my friend’s score.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. Chaput said that at one point last week the volume of bot accounts being registered for the crypto spam campaign started overwhelming the servers that handle new signups at Mastodon.social.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

The breach tracking service HaveIBeenPwned.com and the cybercrime-focused Twitter account vx-underground both concluded the leak is the same information first put up for sale in April 2024 by a prolific cybercriminal who goes by the name “ USDoD.” “I was not the first one to get it.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Sampath Srinivas , director of security authentication at Google and president of the FIDO Alliance, said that under the new system your phone will store a FIDO credential called a “passkey” which is used to unlock your online account. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.”

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