Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

In each incident, the intruders have left behind a “web shell,” an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser. Speaking on condition of anonymity, two cybersecurity experts who’ve briefed U.S. based Volexity for reporting the vulnerabilities.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Until biometrics or a quantum solution change our everyday approach to encryption, passwords remain our first line of defense against data breaches, hackers, and thieves. Proper password hygiene doesn’t require a degree in rocket science. 1) Create sufficiently-complex passwords. But simpler passwords are much easier to hack.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 14, 2025

Wordfence Security Wordfence Security is one of the most popular cybersecurity plugins for WordPress. Another useful feature is its login protection, which helps stop hackers from guessing passwords. If your site ever gets hacked, Sucuri provides help to clean it up.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

According to The Guardian , which first reported the incident,hackers may have accessed company customers emails along with usernames, passwords and personal details of top accountancy firms blue-chip clients. The newspaper described the breach as a deep embarrassment due to the efforts of the firm in the cybersecurity industry.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When you're breaking into cybersecurity, you want a career trajectory that feeds on itself—a process where each small win builds momentum for the next. Dive into core cybersecurity concepts like encryption, secure password practices, endpoint protection, and incident response. Cybersecurity is a social industry.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

In the first step of the attack, they peppered the target’s Apple device with notifications from Apple by attempting to reset his password. The target told Michael that someone was trying to change his password, which Michael calmly explained they would investigate. “Password is changed,” the man said.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Satnam Narang , senior staff research engineer at Tenable , says the danger with stolen NTLM hashes is that they enable so-called “pass-the-hash” attacks, which let an attacker masquerade as a legitimate user without ever having to log in or know the user’s password.

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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. This is essential for fostering critical thinking and collaboration during complex cybersecurity challenges.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2022

Passwords have become ubiquitous with digital. The humble password is nothing more than a digital key that opens a door. And they use passwords to open a device, a system, an account, a file and so on. Which begs the question: why do people create their own passwords? Hackers don’t need to hack in, they just log in.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

So, what’s a bit of increased risk where usernames and passwords are concerned? If you want a digital presence that will be around for the next ten years, scalability, growth, and digitization need to be tempered with a healthy dose of credential-centered cybersecurity. A lot, it turns out. And that is where IAM comes in.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 24, 2025

A sophisticated supply chain hack targeting Oracle Cloud has exfiltrated a staggering 6 million records. The initial access was gained by hacking the login endpoint (login.(region-name).oraclecloud.com), Immediate mitigation measures include: Resetting passwords, particularly for privileged LDAP accounts. region-name).oraclecloud.com),

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Linus Larsson , the journalist who broke the story, says the hacked material was uploaded to a public server during the second half of September, and it is not known how many people may have gained access to it. ” It remains unclear whether the stolen RDP credentials were a factor in this incident. ”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The two infostealers allowed operators to harvest usernames, passwords, contact info, and crypto-wallets from victims, the threat actors sold this data to criminals for financial theft and hacking. Use a password manager : Simplifies managing strong, unique passwords across accounts.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

” Weiss was just one of a half-dozen experts steeped in the cybersecurity aspects of industrial control systems that KrebsOnSecurity spoke with this week. ” There is nothing in the law that requires such facilities to report cybersecurity incidents, such as the one that happened in Oldsmar this past weekend.

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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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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2025

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. But as a cybersecurity brand we want you to feel like you can trust usevery single day of the year. Use a different password for every account.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. ”] Kislitsin was hired by Group-IB in January 2013, nearly six months after the Formspring hack. Department of Justice.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. Sophos) an information technology company that develops and markets cybersecurity products.”

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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. How can malicious actors exploit this?

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2024

The Heritage Foundation, which authored a controversial policy roadmap called project2025, has been hacked. The group that hacked it, SiegedSec, has now disbanded. The post The Heritage Foundation Hacked, User Should Reset Passwords appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Tools designed for password cracking often exploit weak security practices, but understanding these methods is vital for safeguarding your account. This guide explores Snapchat password-cracking tools while focusing on ethical ways to enhance security. Weak or simple passwords are particularly vulnerable.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

In June, KrebsOnSecurity was contacted by a cybersecurity researcher who discovered that a group of scammers was sharing highly detailed personal and financial records on Americans via a free web-based email service that allows anyone who knows an account’s username to view all email sent to that account — without the need of a password.

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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. For organizations that have made that jump, sticking with a simple username and password to protect a globally accessible email server is far from good enough.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Yet, the recent cybersecurity breach at the beloved doughnut chain highlights critical lessons for organizations of all sizes and industries. Cybersecurity experts often ask critical questions: "What is our attack surface?" The Krispy Kreme hack is a sobering reminder that no industry is immune to cyber threats.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

Joshua Schulte, the CIA employee standing trial for leaking the Wikileaks Vault 7 CIA hacking tools, maintains his innocence. The password for the Confluence virtual machine that held all the hacking tools that were stolen and leaked? Those passwords were shared by the entire team and posted on the group's intranet.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 26, 2024

While hacking attempts continue to evolve, so do the strategies to secure your account. Here are five distinct ways to safeguard your Instagram from being hacked, with fresh insights you wont find elsewhere. Unlike passwords or codes, biometric data is unique to you and cannot be easily replicated. Why Biometrics?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

Cybersecurity researchers at S-RM team discovered a novel attack technique used by the Akira ransomware gang. The attacker then moved via RDP to a server and attempted to deploy ransomware as a password-protected zip file, but the victims EDR tool blocked it.

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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. This will help protect your account from potential threats.

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SecureList

JUNE 18, 2024

A side effect is that passwords that were impossible to guess just a few years ago can be cracked by hackers within mere seconds in 2024. For example, the RTX 4090 GPU is capable of guessing an eight-character password consisting of same-case English letters and digits, or 36 combinable characters, within just 17 seconds.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2025

The hacker has published 10,000 customer records, a file showing Oracle Cloud access, user credentials, and an internal video as proof of the hack. Cybersecurity firm Cloudsek also noted that a vulnerable Oracle Fusion Middleware version was running on the compromised server. Oracle has since taken the server offline.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Web application attacks directed at organizations’ web and mail servers continue to take the lead in cybersecurity incidents. Related: Damage caused by ‘business logic’ hacking. Brute forcing passwords (10 percent) came in third. Exploited vulnerabilities were the second leader at almost 20 percent.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A hacking gang known as Scattered Spiders soundly defeated the cybersecurity defenses of MGM and Caesars casinos. For the moment, hackers appear to have the upper hand in the global chess match between cybersecurity professionals and digital criminals. How they steamrolled multi-factor authentication is a reason for pause.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 28, 2024

A compromised password can lead to identity theft and data breaches. To safeguard your Gmail password, you need to adopt a few best practices that will enhance your accounts security and keep cyber threats at bay. If hackers gain access to your Gmail password , they could potentially compromise these connected services too.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 8, 2024

On a popular hacking form, a user has leaked a file that contains 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords. The list appears to be a compilation of passwords that were obtained during several old and more recent data breaches. To cybercriminals the list has some value because it contains real-world passwords.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Ireland’s privacy watchdog Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91M ($101M) after the discovery in 2019 that Meta had stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plaintext. Most of these passwords belonged to Facebook Lite users, but it affected other Facebook and Instagram users as well.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2024

” The vulnerability was discovered by the cybersecurity researcher Nicolai Rybnikar Rybnikar Enterprises GmbH. The fixed version sets a randomly-generated password for the duration of the image build and it disables the builder account at the conclusion of the image build. The flaw has been fixed in version 0.1.38.

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