Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There are two events that can change cached data, one is simple and one is major: Someone opts out of public searchability and their email address needs to be removed. A new data breach is loaded and there are changes to a large number of hash prefixes.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. Inevitably, "because data breaches", and it's nuts just how much exposure this project has had because of them. Passwords This was never on the cards originally.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

trillion, the risk of a data breach extends beyond immediate financial losses. Data Security Thales | Cloud Protection & Licensing Solutions More About This Author > As Black Friday and Cyber Monday loom, the stakes for retailers extend far beyond enticing deals and record sales. trillion and $5.28 trillion and $5.28

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2022

Russian government released a list containing IP addresses and domains behind DDoS attacks that hit Russian infrastructure after the invasion. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). The post These are the sources of DDoS attacks against Russia, local NCCC warns appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2020

TOPIC: In this episode, Daniel takes a look at the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Verizon’s Breach Report is one of the best infosec reports out there, and I’m always excited when I hear it’s been released. The top 2 breach threat actions were Phishing and Use of Stolen Creds.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Leaked email: Companies or third-party vendors put email address security at risk when they experience data breaches. Take the WhatsApp data breach of 2019, where hackers got the personal data of 1.5 It’s a type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that uses a script to automatically send messages.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In fact, according to the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report , more than 80% of organizations reported at least one breach in the last year, while ransomware attacks grew more frequent, with 28% of organizations reported experiencing an attack in 2024, compared to 22% in 2023.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This was more than a multi-password via ssh exploit, and there was no ransom. ” In an update posted to the company’s Web site , VFEmail owner Rick Romero wrote that new email was being delivered and that efforts were being made to recover what user data could be salvaged. . “Every VM [virtual machine] is lost.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2022

The content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company Cloudflare revealed this week that at least 76 employees and their family members received text messages on their personal and work phones. The post Hackers behind Twilio data breach also targeted Cloudflare employees appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2022

Threat actors are spreading password-stealing malware disguised as a security tool to target Ukraine’s IT Army. Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a malware campaign targeting Ukraine’s IT Army , threat actors are using infostealer malware mimicking a DDoS tool called the “Liberator.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

“LAPSUS$ appears to be highly sophisticated, carrying out increasingly high-profile data breaches. “Given that employees typically use these personal accounts or numbers as their second-factor authentication or password recovery, the group would often use this access to reset passwords and complete account recovery actions.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

In a typical PPI network, clients will submit their malware—a spambot or password-stealing Trojan, for example —to the service, which in turn charges per thousand successful installations, with the price depending on the requested geographic location of the desired victims. But on Dec. ru and alphadisplay[.]ru, Ukraincki over the years.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

Microsoft denied the data breach after the collective of hacktivists known as Anonymous Sudan claimed to have hacked the company. A collective known as Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks that hit the company’s services. reads the report published by the company.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Availability & Reliability Cloud storage service outages affect business operations and hinder access to crucial data. Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Make the default data storage settings private. million records exposed.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) are a very likely mode of attack. There is little you can do in the event we experience widespread DDoS attacks, but one tip is to buy a good book series or a few board games since it might take a while to get the internet working again. password, 123456, qwerty, etc.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. SALOMON As an affiliate of Spamdot, Salomon used the email address ad1@safe-mail.net , and the password 19871987gr.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2021

” The nature of the data breaches leads the experts into excluding that the hacks were the result of law enforcement operations. In January, experts noticed on the popular Raid Forums an advertisement for the Verified’s database containing registered users’ data and their private messages, posts, and threads. .”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

CISA adds PTZOptics camera bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Canadian authorities arrested alleged Snowflake hacker Android flaw CVE-2024-43093 may be under limited, targeted exploitation July 2024 ransomware attack on the City of Columbus impacted 500,000 people Nigerian man Sentenced to 26+ years in real estate phishing scams Russian (..)

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Here’s what happened: The school did not have proper website security in place and consequently was the target of a data breach that shut down its website. In 2015, the education sector was among the top three sectors breached , behind healthcare and retail. Protect Your Campus from DDoS Attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2022

Twilio hackers also breached the food delivery firm DoorDash Unprecedented cyber attack hit State Infrastructure of Montenegro Threat actor abuses Genshin Impact Anti-Cheat driver to disable antivirus Critical flaw impacts Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center Iran-linked Mercury APT exploited Log4Shell in SysAid Apps for initial access GoldDragon (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

If attackers know the IPs, they could launch DDoS attacks and search for open ports, which, if found, could potentially grant access to the local network and the devices connected to it. The leaked IP addresses introduce the risk of a takeover of a local network.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Dailymotion forces password reset in response to credential stuffing Attack. Law enforcement worldwide hunting users of DDoS-for-Hire services. Airbus data breach exposes some employeesdata. CookieMiner Mac Malware steals browser cookies and sensitive Data. Home Design website Houzz suffered a data breach.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Nominate Pierluigi Paganini and Security Affairs here here: [link] Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

By neglecting to set a password, a BMW dealer in India has jeopardized the entire network of car dealerships in the country and put its clients at risk. The Cybernews research team has discovered that the Bengaluru branch of BMW Kun Exclusive, a BMW dealership in India, has exposed sensitive data to the public.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

FBI recommends using passphrases instead of complex passwords. Slickwraps discloses data leak that impacted 850,000 user accounts. Samsung leaked data of a few UK Customers. Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks. Data on Detection of Malicious Documents in Gmail are impressive.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Internal APIs are just as vulnerable to attacks, data breaches, and fraud as public APIs. An attacker could use an internal API to launch DDoS attacks against companies by sending large volumes of traffic over a short period. password guessing). Internal APIs or Private APIs are not Immune.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 6, 2018

For now though, here's this week's update which talks through many of the issues covered in those tweets not just as it relates to HTTPS, but also beer, MD5 password hashes, giving another party access to your Gmail (hint: it actually gives them access to your Gmail!) It'll be a fun blog post ??. and my 8th MVP award which landed this week.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

These infections make sites vulnerable to takeovers, defacement and data breaches from bad actors looking to tarnish site reputations and turn a profit – and the costs can be devastating for businesses. In fact, the average data breach now costs businesses $1.9 Why are DDoS attacks so important to prevent?

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

X Master Password Dumper (CVE-2023-32784) Malware RapperBot DDoS Botnet Expands into Cryptojacking Newly identified RA Group compromises companies in U.S. X Master Password Dumper (CVE-2023-32784) Malware RapperBot DDoS Botnet Expands into Cryptojacking Newly identified RA Group compromises companies in U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Every single day there was something going on, from SQL Injection attacks, to credential stuffing attacks, DDoS attacks, you name it. Gone are the days when criminals had to try a one attack variant at a time, or one username/password combination at a time. It makes sense too, if you think about it. I wrote about this last May.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Imperva shared details on the incident it has recently suffered and how hackers obtain data on Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) customers. In August, cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2023

DepositFiles’ clients are at risk of their personally identifiable information, files, and passwords being stolen. According to the team, there’s more than enough data for attackers to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, deploy ransomware, or cause financial losses. What DepositFiles data was exposed?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. Source: Verizon DBIR [1] Patterns over time in cybersecurity data breaches.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Data Breach Costs: The average global cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 As a precaution, they revoked all security certificates and passwords for their web portal. Ransomware Attacks: In 2023, a whopping 72.7%

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