Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all of its customers, but that solution may not come fast enough for organizations having trouble dealing with the fallout in the meantime. Image: Wikipedia. ”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. The targeted SMS scams asked employees to click a link and log in at a website that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. Booking.com said it now requires 2FA , which forces partners to provide a one-time passcode from a mobile authentication app (Pulse) in addition to a username and password.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As technology has evolved, fingers (and palms and irises and faces) have increasingly been used as a means of biometric authentication. Only one of those requires physical presence with the rest enabling any kid anywhere in the world with an internet connection to grab troves of them with ease. That is all. Who is Your Adversary?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet. The key works without the need for any special software drivers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2025

SonicWall warns customers to address an authentication bypass vulnerability in its firewall’s SonicOS that is “susceptible to actual exploitation.” ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, SonicOS) . hardware firewalls: SonicOS 6.5.5.1-6n

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 9, 2021

But since 79% of the Internet’s websites use PHP, it’s scary. Developers have moved PHP to GitHub, which has better authentication. It was two malicious commits , with the subject “fix typo” and the names of known PHP developers and maintainers. Hopefully it will be enough — PHP is a juicy target.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

While the FBI’s InfraGard system requires multi-factor authentication by default, users can choose between receiving a one-time code via SMS or email. “If it was only the phone I will be in [a] bad situation,” USDoD said. “Because I used the person[‘s] phone that I’m impersonating.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In particular, we recommend that you ensure that access to the management interface is possible only from trusted internal IPs and not from the Internet. Cortex Xpanse and Cortex XSIAM customers using the ASM module can investigate internet-exposed instances by reviewing alerts from the Firewall Admin Login attack surface rule.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

As the dust settles following the recently disclosed hack of NewsCorp , important lessons are emerging for the cybersecurity and journalism communities. China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ Related: How China challenged Google in Operation Aurora.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The vulnerability CVE-2025-0111 is a file read issue in PAN-OS, an authenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface could exploit the flaw to read files that are readable by the “nobody” user. Palo Alto Networks addressed the flaw CVE-2025-0111 on February 12, 2025.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2025

The internet is filled with falsehoods. Last year a burger restaurant sent customers into a spin after sending them a fake order confirmation email, which led to customers fearing that their accounts had been hacked. Set up multi-factor authentication on every account you can.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2024

Netsecfish reported that over 92,000 Internet-facing devices are vulnerable. This trick allows attackers to obtain bypass authentication. “ Furthermore, NAS devices should never be exposed to the internet as they are commonly targeted to steal data or encrypt in ransomware attacks.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The data in this story come from a trusted source in the security industry who has visibility into a network of hacked machines that fraudsters in just about every corner of the Internet are using to anonymize their malicious Web traffic. mail server responds “OK” = successful access).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

“ An authentication bypass in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to bypass the authentication otherwise required by the PAN-OS management web interface and invoke certain PHP scripts. reads the advisory published by Palo Alto Networks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2024

.” The experts added that FortiWLM’s verbose logs expose session IDs, enabling attackers to exploit log file read vulnerabilities to hijack sessions and access authenticated endpoints. Authenticated users’ session ID tokens in FortiWLM remain static per device boot. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The vulnerability is a missing authentication issue in FortiManager and FortiManager Cloud versions, an attacker could execute arbitrary code or commands through specially crafted requests. “A Mandiant urges organizations that may have their FortiManager exposed to the internet to conduct a forensic investigation.

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Hacker's King

JANUARY 8, 2025

You may also like to read: How Hackers Spy On Hacked Phone? How To Detect and Secure Yourself Hacker's Most Preferred Hacking Techniques These techniques can be described as the most liked techniques of users to hack Android devices. By using this technique, hackers extract any information required to hack your Android device.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Internet of Everything ( IoE ) is on the near horizon. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. Do not trust everything you see online.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

. “Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated user to perform a remote code execution.” “This could allow an authenticated user to perform a remote code execution attack against a customer’s Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2024

.” The researchers pointed out that despite the vulnerable service is intended for LAN access only, querying Shodan they identified over 91,000 devices that expose the service to the Internet. Most of the Internet-facing devices are in South Korea, Hong Kong, the U.S., Sweden, and Finland. running on OLED55CXPUA webOS 6.3.3-442

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2024

Shadowserver researchers reported that over 20,000 internet-exposed VMware ESXi instances are affected by the actively exploited flaw CVE-2024-37085. We have started sharing exposed VMware ESXi vulnerable to CVE-2024-37085 (authentication bypass). The flaw is an authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware ESXi. “A

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2025

The botnet uses compromised MikroTik devices as SOCKS proxies, masking malicious traffic origins and enabling other actors to exploit them without authentication, amplifying its scale. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, MikroTik botnet)

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. To protect against these attacks, businesses need to implement a wide range of strong API security measures such as authentication, authorization, encryption, and vulnerability scanning. Related: Using employees as human sensors.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

The three flaws fixed are: CVE-2024-21899 : an improper authentication vulnerability could allow users to compromise the security of the system via a network. CVE-2024-21900 : an injection vulnerability could allow authenticated users to execute commands via a network. x QTS 5.1.3.2578 build 20231110 and later QTS 4.5.x

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 16, 2023

Clop, the Russia-based ransomware gang that executed the MOVEit-Zellis supply chain hack, has commenced making extortion demands of some big name U.S. Related: Supply-chain hack ultimatum The nefarious Clop gang initially compromised MOVEit, which provided them a beachhead to gain access to Zellis, a UK-based supplier of payroll services.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2025

Mar 28, 2025, CyberNewswire — From WannaCry to the MGM Resorts Hack, ransomware remains one of the most damaging cyberthreats to plague enterprises. Instead, the browser has become the primary way through which employees conduct work and interact with the internet. Palo Alto, Calif.,

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Speaking to Reuters , a senior US official said the attack telecommunications infrastructure was broad and that the hacking was still ongoing. During transit the message remains encrypted the entire time it is moving across the internet. What that means is only the person sending it and the person receiving it can read it.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Bloomberg first reported Moucka’s alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday. 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).

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The details of the Krispy Kreme hack are still emerging, but the companys Form 8-K filing brought the incident to light, offering a rare glimpse into the challenges businesses face when their systems are compromised. The attack goes to show that, truly, nothing Internet-connected is sacred."

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

government cybersecurity agencies warned this week that the attackers behind the widespread hacking spree stemming from the compromise at network software firm SolarWinds used weaknesses in other, non-SolarWinds products to attack high-value targets. 3, and said it learned about the flaw from the NSA. ” Indeed, the NSA’s Dec.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2018

To remain anonymous and secure on the Internet, invest in a Virtual Private Network account, but remember, the bad guys are very smart, so by the time this column runs, they may have figured out a way to hack into a VPN. And while you're at it, do it for your mobile phone provider and your Internet service provider.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 11, 2020

The most concerning of these appears to be CVE-2020-1380 , which is a weaknesses in Internet Explorer that could result in system compromise just by browsing with IE to a hacked or malicious website. This is the sixth month in a row Microsoft has shipped fixes for more than 100 flaws in its products.

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