Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

Scammers who make a living swindling Airbnb.com customers have a powerful new tool at their disposal: A software-as-a-service offering called “ Land Lordz ,” which helps automate the creation and management of fake Airbnb Web sites and the sending of messages to advertise the fraudulent listings.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The makers of Acunetix, Texas-based application security vendor Invicti Security , confirmed Silent Push’s findings, saying someone had figured out how to crack the free trial version of the software so that it runs without a valid license key. ” Orn advertising Araneida Scanner in Feb. 2023 on the forum Cracked.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The leaked data includes login names, hashed passwords, and email addresses. It is not confirmed that all of the leaked data is legitimate, anyway, experts suggest users change their password immediately. Users that share the password at another site should also change the password. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

A group of security researchers has found thousands of Android apps containing hidden backdoors and blacklists. There are 7,584 apps with secret access keys, 501 apps that embed master passwords, and 6,013 apps with secret commands. Moreover, these security risks hold generally across all of our data sources.

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MARCH 23, 2020

107 million records include personal data and basic account information such as the user ID, number of Weibo tweets, number of followers and accounts users are following, account gender, geographic location and more. The dump doesn’t include Weibo users’ passwords. ” reported the website PingWest. ?????????????

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The threat actor is advertising the stolen data since October 28 on a hacker forum. Users of the above companies have to immediately change their passwords, and if they use the same passwords at other sites, they should also change the password at those sites. Source Bleeping Computer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Yesterday almost $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency contained in a password-protected BitCoin wallet was moved to another wallet. Ahead of the 2020 Presidential election a mysterious transaction was noticed by cyber security experts and researchers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

Quidd , the online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019, it is also recommending users to change their passwords. The data breach was first reported by Risk Based Security last week, since then, Quidd has never disclosed any data breach recent security incident.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2020

The Joomla Resources Directory portal allows professionals and developers to advertise their services. Data contained in the backup includes : Full name Business address Business email address Business phone number Company URL Nature of business Encrypted password (hashed) IP address Newsletter subscription preferences.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

The Russian man also advertised the platform on other hacking forums. Individuals can also buy computer files, financial information, PII, and usernames and passwords taken from computers infected with malicious software (malware) located both in the U.S. Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and victim addresses.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The bank changed 23,000 passwords in 2018 without consent. However, some branch employees of Woori Bank modified the passwords and as a result of the operation, the accounts have been reactivated. However, some branch employees of Woori Bank modified the passwords and as a result of the operation, the accounts have been reactivated.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2020

The SFO ITT urges anyone who even visited either website using the Internet Explorer web browser to change the device’s password. In response to the incident, the SFO Airport reset all email and network passwords. The airport also forced a reset of all SFO related email and network passwords on Monday, March 23, 2020.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The API in question was tied to a Postal Service initiative called “ Informed Visibility ,” which according to the USPS is designed to let businesses, advertisers and other bulk mail senders “make better business decisions by providing them with access to near real-time tracking data” about mail campaigns and packages.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

” “We use Facebook and LinkedIn for account login and do not store any passwords on our system. If you use the legacy email and password login, your passwords are encrypted, but we highly encourage that you change it. We do not store any credit card or payment related information on our servers.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

The data for any specific firewall depends upon the specific configuration and may include usernames and hashed passwords for the local device admin(s), portal admins, and user accounts used for remote access.” ” “Passwords associated with external authentication systems such as AD or LDAP are unaffected.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

Last week, security experts from MalwareHunterTeam detected new ransomware dubbed CoronaVirus has been distributed through a malicious web site that was advertising a legitimate system optimization software and utilities from WiseCleaner. exe,’ which is the Kpot password-stealing Trojan. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

The RAT allowed customers to access and control their victims’ computers remotely, its author advertised its stealing capabilities. He is accused of advertising and selling the Hive remote access trojan (RAT) on the “Hack Forums” website. . ” reported the DoJ. ” continues DoJ. . ” continues DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Last week, Open Exchange Rates disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. Last week, the currency data provider Open Exchange Rates has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and salted and hashed passwords for customers of its API service.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

The leaked records included a login name, full name, MD5 hashed password, email address, phone number, zip, and other data related. The company has notified impacted users via email, it admitted to having recently discovered the data breach, in response to the incident it has forced a password reset. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

. “Since the beginning of March, the number of Bruteforce.Generic.RDP attacks has rocketed across almost the entire planet” Attackers attempt to brute-force the username and password used to protect RDP access to systems exposed online, they can use combinations of random characters or leverage dictionary of most popular passwords.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

A hacker has leaked the usernames and passwords of nearly 23 million players of Webkinz World on a well-known hacking forum. . 22,000,000 users affected and while the database only contains username and hashed passwords, I believe it is just part of the full database that was probably taken as well. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

In malspam attacks, attackers could encrypt the Excel file by setting up a password, then when the victims receive the email, hackers trick them into opening the attachment using a password included in the content of the message. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The hacker access to users’ data, including usernames , email addresses, SHA-2 hashed passwords, account sign-up dates and country, the last-login date, the internet (IP) address, and links to profile photos. The majority of Mixcloud users signed up via Facebook authentication, in which cases we do not store passwords.”

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Change your Activision account passwords and add 2FA immediately. Activision accounts are apparently being leaked so change your password, although that might not even help because they're apparently generating 1,000 accounts every 10 minutes. Players are recommended to change their account passwords as soon as possible.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

.” According to the company, attackers accessed personal details of the users, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and also encrypted passwords. In response to the incident, the bidding portal has forced a password reset for all users’ accounts, both bidder and auctioneer ones. The post 3.4

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Cisco has addressed a high-severity flaw in the Cisco Webex video conferencing platform ( CVE-2020-3142) that could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to enter a password-protected video conference meeting. reads the security advisory published by Cisco. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Webex, hacking).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2020

On August 6, during a review of email configuration and rules, the staff at the SANS Institute discovered a security breach. 28,000 records of personally identifiable information (PII) have been forwarded to an unknown email address. Financial information either passwords were not impacted in the incident.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

The huge trove of data contains over 386 million user records, but only some of them included the user’s password. Users of the above companies are recommended to change their passwords as soon as possible, they have to change the passwords where they used the same login credentials.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

. “We recently became aware that some of our customers’ personal information stored on one of our databases has been accessed without permission. To reassure you, the database did not include any passwords or financial details, such as bank account number or credit card information.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

Over 267 million Facebook profiles are offered for sale on dark web sites and hacker forums, the dump is offered for £500 ($623) and doesn’t include passwords. Hackers are offering for sale over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums, the archive doesn’t include passwords.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2020

The Zoom platform hosts both password-protected virtual meetings and webinars, and sessions for non-pre-registered participants who can join the meetings by entering a unique Meeting ID (comprised of 9, 10, and 11-digit numbers). The latter case doesn’t require a password or going through the Waiting Rooms. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Pluto TV is an American internet television service, it is an advertiser-supported video on demand (AVOD) service that primarily offers a selection of programming content through digital linear channels designed to emulate the experience of traditional broadcast programming. A hacker has shared 3.2

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

These attacks, which used passwords and usernames collected from previous hacks of accounts worldwide, took advantage of the fact that many people reuse passwords and usernames across multiple accounts.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” states the press release.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

. “We want to update you that we have discovered that some of our users’ order information was accessed by an unauthorized party.” “We can confirm that all payment information, passwords and accounts are safe, but certain users’ name, contact number, email and shipping address may have been exposed.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

. “By forging an authentication token for specific Netlogon functionality, he was able to call a function to set the computer password of the Domain Controller to a known value. After that, the attacker can use this new password to take control over the domain controller and steal credentials of a domain admin.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2020

More than 15 billion username and passwords are available on cybercrime marketplaces, including over 5 billion unique credentials, states the experts. According to the company, most of the username and password combinations are available for free, and 5 billion of the above credentials are “unique.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2020

. “The server was live at the time of our investigation, leaking Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data from people accessing private accounts on Le Figaro’s news website, and in some cases, their login credentials.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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