SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Well-known crypto researcher ZachXBT reached the same conclusion as Elliptic, sharing his analysis on X: Lazarus Group just connected the Bybit hack to the Phemex hack directly on-chain commingling funds from the intial theft address for both incidents. Farronato further emphasized that immediate and decisive action is necessary.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

With the help of these documents, even inexperienced operators with limited hacking skills can quickly acquire the necessary expertise to successfully forward counterfeit EDRs. These EDRs, representing the official cooperation channels between law enforcement agencies and social media platforms, are at risk of becoming a double-edged sword.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

CVE-2024-51567 – is an incorrect default permissions vulnerability in CyberPanel (prior to patch 5b08cd6) that allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands through /dataBases/upgrademysqlstatus by manipulating the statusfile property with shell metacharacters, bypassing secMiddleware.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Another demonstration of how valuable Grindr data is came last year when the US gov deemed that Chinese ownership of the service constituted a national security risk. I asked for technical detail so I could validated the authenticity of his claim and the info duly arrived.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2025

A remote authenticated attacker can exploit the flaw to inject arbitrary commands as a ‘nobody’ user, which could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, CISA ) ” reads the advisory.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Internet Archive was breached again, attackers hacked its Zendesk email support platform through stolen GitLab authentication tokens. Poor cyber hygiene increases the risk of further data breaches and could undermine user trust. Hunt also verified the authenticity of the information included in the stolen archive.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The only federal law that applies to the cybersecurity of water treatment facilities in the United States is America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 , which requires water systems serving more than 3,300 people “to develop or update risk assessments and emergency response plans.” Information sharing is broken.”

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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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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. Dennis soon learned the unauthorized Gmail address added to his son’s hacked Xbox account also had enabled MFA.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A botnet of 130,000+ devices is attacking Microsoft 365 accounts via password-spraying, bypassing MFA by exploiting basic authentication. The attackers targeted accounts protected with basic authentication bypassing multi-factor authentication. Despite Microsoft phasing it out, it remains an active security risk.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Attackers can exploit the SSL VPN gateway by accessing the filesystem via an HTTP header flags attribute and a vulnerable URL without authentication. An attacker can browse the filesystem on the SSL VPN gateway using a flags attribute in an HTTP header without authentication. ” reads the advisory. ” reads the advisory.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Remote attackers could bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands by exploiting a flaw in secMiddleware , which only validates POST requests. The vulnerability was exploited in a large-scale hacking campaign that targeted more than 22,000 CyberPanel instances. to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Attackers accessed targets via VPN gateways lacking multifactor authentication, some of which ran outdated software. In each of the cases, attackers initially accessed targets using compromised VPN gateways without multifactor authentication enabled. Overlapping indicators link these cases to prior Fog and Akira ransomware attacks.

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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.” Again, this upgrade addresses a high vulnerability for SSL VPN users that should be considered at imminent risk of exploitation and updated immediately.

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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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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

JANUARY 30, 2025

.” The researchers noted that the leak could have allowed attackers to take full control of the database and potentially escalate privileges within the DeepSeek environment, without any authentication. “This level of access posed a critical risk to DeepSeeks own security and for its end-users. ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

The directive applies to any networking devices — such as firewalls, routers and load balancers — that allow remote authentication or administration. “This is reachable pre-authentication, on every SSL VPN appliance,” French vulnerability researcher Charles Fol tweeted. “Patch your #Fortigate.”

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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. And therein lies the problem: Your enterprise could be at risk if their credentials are unsafe. So, what’s a bit of increased risk where usernames and passwords are concerned?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2025

Commvault Web Server has an unspecified vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote, authenticated attacker. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, CISA ) ” Fixed in version 11.36.46, 11.32.89, 11.28.141, and 11.20.217 for Windows and Linux platforms.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the Fortinet FortiManager missing authentication vulnerability CVE-2024-47575 (CVSS v4 score: 9.8) A missing authentication flaw in FortiManager and FortiManager Cloud versions allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or commands through specially crafted requests.

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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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Related: Class-action lawsuits pile up in wake of NPD hack So what’s the connection? This drives public awareness of the risks associated with identity theft. NPD reported the exposure of over 2.7 billion records. The breach was initially caused by a third-party malicious actor who infiltrated NPD’s systems in December 2023.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Cisco is aware of attacks conducted by Akira ransomware threat actors targeting Cisco ASA VPNs that are not configured for multi-factor authentication. “This highlights the importance of enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) in VPN implementations. . ” reads a post published by Cisco PSIRT. 200 and 162.35.92[.]242

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

The same types of security risks impact businesses, whatever their size. They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. Storing authentication credentials for the API is a significant issue. Related: Using employees as human sensors.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

A remote authenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code via a crafted script to the /h/autoSaveDraft function. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, CISA ) The vulnerability was addressed inJuly 2023with version 8.8.15

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 19, 2025

While this might protect our mental bandwidth, and in some cases help us avoid hacking attempts via exhaustion tactics, it also has unintended consequenceswhen it comes to cybersecurity. Deepfake Technology Amplifying Risks: The evolution and democratisation of deepfake technology have blurred the line between reality and fabrication.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2024

“An authenticated attacker with Site Owner permissions can use the vulnerability to inject arbitrary code and execute this code in the context of SharePoint Server.” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA )

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

is an inadequate authentication mechanisms that could allow an attacker to access sensitive information like usernames, MD5 password hashes, and configuration data. Attackers can also trigger flaws to extract network details to infiltrate connected systems, increasing the risk of data breaches and ransomware attacks.

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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. While hacking attempts continue to evolve, so do the strategies to secure your account. Personal appeals from hacked accounts of friends asking for money or passwords.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2025

The vulnerability is a Pre-authentication deserialization of untrusted data issue in the SMA1000 Appliance Management Console (AMC) and Central Management Console (CMC) that has been likely exploited in attacks in the wild as a zero-day. reads the advisory. CISA orders federal agencies to fix this vulnerability byFebruary 13, 2025.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 1, 2024

SolarWinds hackers strike again: Remote access service hacked—by APT29, says TeamViewer. The post ‘Russia’ Breaches TeamViewer — ‘No Evidence’ Billions of Devices at Risk appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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