Malwarebytes

MARCH 21, 2023

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has notified its fans they may be affected by a data breach in a third-party service the organization uses. In January of 2023, Mailchimp fell victim for the second time in a year to a social engineering attack. Change your password. Check the vendor's advice.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

According to Mailchimp, the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance. Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Multiple trusted sources told KrebsOnSecurity that Sosa/King Bob was a core member of a hacking group behind the 2022 breach at Twilio , a company that provides services for making and receiving text messages and phone calls. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. Social engineering scams leverage psychological manipulation to deceive individuals and exploit the victims’ trust.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 18, 2025

Check Password Managers: If you use a password manager, review stored logins for accounts you no longer use. Stay Aware of Data Breaches: Knowledge is power! Subscribe to breach notification services to help stay aware of whether your data has been compromised.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Cloud is known in the gaming world and, among other things, allows gamers to play resource heavy games on lower-end devices, The stolen data includes full customer names, email addresses, dates of birth, billing addresses, and credit card expiration dates. According to Shadow, no passwords or sensitive banking data have been compromised.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Given the prominence of third-party data breaches, supply chains can’t afford to assume any device, network or user is secure. They must restrict data as much as possible and verify identities at every step. Shipping challenges can cause widespread disruptions across supply chains, but data breaches can make them far worse.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

For those who can’t be convinced to use a password manager, even writing down all of the account details and passwords on a slip of paper can be helpful, provided the document is secured in a safe place. Perhaps the most important place to enable MFA is with your email accounts.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2024

The name "RockYou2024" pays homage to the infamous RockYou data breach of 2009, which exposed 32 million passwords due to insecure storage practices. A secure password manager can store MFA codes and autofill them, providing a seamless and secure experience. Ensure that new passwords are strong and unique.

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Identity IQ

MAY 13, 2024

What Are the Risks of a Data Breach? IdentityIQ In a society dominated by digital interconnectedness, the risks associated with data breaches loom over individuals, businesses, and society at large. What Is a Data Breach? You should also avoid easy guessable security questions.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

While not deeply sensitive, the information could still be used by malicious actors to quickly and easily find new targets based on the criminals’ preferred methods of social engineering. This is why many web applications use scraping mitigation tools that help protect against hostile data collection by bots and threat actors.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

On top of that, some websites still insist on forcing users to have very short passwords, or perhaps prevent password managers filling data into the password box. Shoring up your passwords. Sign up for breach alerts. Whenever your email shows up in a breach, you’ll be alerted.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

Particularly determined attackers can combine information found in the leaked files with other data breaches in order to create detailed profiles of their potential victims. Change the password of your LinkedIn and email accounts. Consider using a password manager to create strong passwords and store them securely.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The following vectors represent some of the most common ways a criminal could gain access to your accounts and is also known as an account takeover : Social Engineering. Some hackers even set up rogue hotspots with the sole intention of luring unsuspecting device users and stealing their valuable data. Data Breaches.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

With more than 15 billion login credentials available on the dark web because of data breaches, millions of online accounts remain at risk of unauthorized access. While these individual prices seem low, it’s important to remember that data breaches usually compromise millions of accounts at a time which are then sold in bulk.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Crippling losses Despite advances in password best practices and supporting tools, password-based cybersecurity has remained precarious, at best. Verizon has been doing this very substantive report, in which it culls hard evidence collected in actual data breach investigations, for 12 years. million on average.

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Identity IQ

MAY 15, 2021

Credential stuffing relies on two things: login credentials obtained from data breaches or the dark web. This is one of the biggest threats consumers face today given the billions of records exposed in data breaches and the current state of digital security habits. Use Password Managers.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

The answer, like most other cybersecurity-adjacent answers, lies in a combination of factors including social engineering , weak passwords, and other risky security moves or attacks. Delays in identifying, assessing, and notifying breaches make it more challenging to prevent harm.

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Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

TL;DR Strong passwords : Use a password manager. This makes it harder for unauthorised users to gain access even if they have your password. These systems store your passwords in a single encrypted vault. But protecting your password manager is a password… so what do you set your password manager password to?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

And security researchers from ESET have discovered that the malware was uploaded to the VirusTotal operated system in Brazil and was targeted by a social engineering attack. North Korea’s Lazarus Group has reportedly designed new ransomware that is being targeted at M1 processors popularly running on Macs and Intel systems.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Attackers can also combine the leaked email addresses with data from other breaches and build more detailed pictures of their potential targets. Here’s how: Create long, strong, and unique passwords that are difficult to guess, or use a password manager to generate strong passwords for you.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Below are the recommendations provided by Armorblox to identify phishing messages: Augment native email security with additional controls; Watch out for social engineering cues; Follow multi-factor authentication and password management best practices; Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Hacker's King

JANUARY 2, 2025

Email hacks are not just inconvenient; they can lead to identity theft and data breaches. Tips to Prevent Future Email Hacks Use Strong Passwords Avoid Predictable Patterns: Skip birthdays, names, or common phrases. Use Password Managers: Tools like LastPass or Dashlane can generate and store secure passwords.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

Stay informed about the latest cyber threats, such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and social engineering attacks. Utilize a password manager to securely store and generate strong passwords. Maintain Regular Backups: Regularly back up your important data to an external hard drive or a cloud-based service.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Password reuse is tempting, because it's impossible to remember a different password for each online account. That's why people are encouraged to use tools like password managers, as they make it easy to generate and remember all your passwords. Please notice this breach. Purchase history. Shipping address.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes , the cyberthreats that SMBs most commonly face are “ransomware, misconfigurations and unpatched systems, credential stuffing and social engineering.”. Ransomware, simply put, means cybercriminals lock your data and hold it captive for a ransom payment. Most data breaches start with a phishing email.

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SecureList

JANUARY 25, 2024

We expected organizations to try to reduce the impact of the human factor on data security, so as to bring down the number of insider threats and social engineering attacks. The issue intensified with the widespread use of chatbots for work , leading employees to inadvertently share sensitive data.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 9, 2023

With passwords, users may be more vulnerable to these attacks because they are required to enter their password on a website or in an email, which can be easily intercepted or stolen. Passkeys provide an effective solution to this problem by eliminating the need for users to enter their passwords.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

A report reveals various cyber-attacks that often target small businesses, such as malware, phishing, data breaches, and ransomware attacks. Also, small businesses are vulnerable to malware, brute-force attacks, ransomware, and social attacks and may not survive one incident. trillion by 2025.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Such lapses in database security can (and often do) lead to hundreds of millions of people having their personal information exposed on the internet, allowing threat actors to use that data for a variety of malicious purposes, including phishing and other types of social engineering attacks , as well as identity theft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

If genuine, the data from the compilation can be used by threat actors against potential victims in multiple ways by: Carrying out targeted phishing and other social engineering campaigns. Brute-forcing the passwords of the affected Facebook profiles. Change the password of your Clubhouse and Facebook accounts.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This means no more passwords to remember, reset, or leak in data breaches. Syncs automatically across devices when backed up in Apple iCloud Keychain, Google Password Manager, or Microsoft Account. Reduced risk of social engineering Attackers cant trick users into revealing passkeys like they do with passwords.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

From direct assaults on passwords via brute force attacks and password spraying to email phishing, ransomware and social engineering campaigns that act as precursors to credential stuffing attacks, adversaries are well aware that the path of least resistance almost always involves the compromising of a password.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

I still have to remember a few dozen passwords. I use a password manager because not everything’s passwordless yet, but that’s really the big win there. As we know from [ the Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report ], in over 80% of all computer breaches, passwords are responsible for part of it.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Use Strong Passwords and a Password Manager Sadly, less than 40% of all online users use a distinct password for each account, according to the National Cybersecurity Alliance 2023 Oh Behave! In either case – passwords or passwordless passkeys – a password manager is needed ( here’s why ).

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