Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At Malwarebytes we’ve been telling people for years not to reuse passwords, and that a password manager is a secure way of remembering all the passwords you need for your online accounts. But we also know that a password manager can be overwhelming, especially when you’re just getting started.

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Graham Cluley

JUNE 3, 2021

The majority of enterprise data breaches are still tied to weak password and secrets management habits among employees.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. ” WHOLESALE PASSWORD THEFT. Cloud-based health insurance management portals.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 30, 2023

We have recently written about malvertising campaigns that leverage Google paid advertisements to try and trick people into downloading malware instead of the software they were looking for. Now, our researchers found that the malvertising campaigns via Google Ads are not just about software downloads and scams.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

Use unique, strong passwords, and store them in a password manager. Many people get hacked from having guessable or previously compromised passwords. Good passwords are long, random, and unique to each account, which means it’s impossible for a human to manage them on their own.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Hope yours has been amazing too, see you from home next week 😊 References LastPass has added an update re their recent security incident (if keychains have been downloaded - even fully encrypted ones - that's bad news) Personally, I quite like the public view count on all tweets (if you dislike it just purely because it was introduced (..)

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SC Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

In an April 23 blog , the firm claimed to have digital evidence that Australian company ClickStudios suffered a breach, sometime between April 20 and April 22, which resulted in the attacker dropping a corrupted update to its password manager Passwordstate. ” “At Click Studios we take the privacy of our customers very seriously.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A new study that examines the current state of password policies across the internet shows that many of the most popular websites allow users to create weak passwords. For the Georgia Tech study , the researchers designed an algorithm that automatically determined a website’s password policy.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MAY 6, 2021

The first Thursday in May is World Password Day! Here are some of our best articles, infographics and more to help you strengthen your passwords! For World Password Day, here's our table for creating long, unique, and complex passwords. See how your passwords stack up and consider creating some new ones!

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Four and a half years ago now, I rolled out version 2 of HIBP's Pwned Passwords that implemented a really cool k-anonymity model courtesy of the brains at Cloudflare. Actually, the multiple problems, the first of which is that it's just way too fast for storing user passwords in an online system.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As if password authentication’s coffin needed any more nails, researchers in the UK have discovered yet another way to hammer one in. For example, when typing a password, people will regularly hide their screen but will do little to obfuscate their keyboard’s sound.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As if password authentication’s coffin needed any more nails, researchers in the UK have discovered yet another way to hammer one in. For example, when typing a password, people will regularly hide their screen but will do little to obfuscate their keyboard’s sound.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 9, 2018

Per the definition in that link, it simply means this: Credential stuffing is the automated injection of breached username/password pairs in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts. Go and get a password manager (I use 1Password ), generate random strings for passwords, job done. (Of

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Group-IB cybersecurity researchers recently identified several Russian-speaking cybercrime groups offering infostealing malware-as-a-service (MaaS), resulting in the theft of more than 50 million passwords thus far. To minimize risk, Group-IB advises taking the following key steps: Don’t download software from suspicious sources.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This overconfidence is cause for concern for many cybersecurity professionals as humans are the number one reason for breaches (how many of your passwords are qwerty or 1234five?). Only 28 percent don’t use repeated passwords•Only 20 percent use a password manager. Not using repeated passwords.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When a support technician wants to use it to remotely administer a computer, the ConnectWise website generates an executable file that is digitally signed by ConnectWise and downloadable by the client via a hyperlink. ” A composite of screenshots researcher Ken Pyle put together to illustrate the ScreenConnect vulnerability.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

Over recent weeks, I've begun planning the release of the 3rd version of Pwned Passwords. If you cast your mind back, version 1 came along in August last year and contained 320M passwords. We'll start with the raw numbers: in total, there are 517,238,891 passwords which is 15.6M more than in V2.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The mother of all data leaks, dubbed “Compilation of Many Breaches” (COMB) by its uploader, includes unique email and password combinations from more than 250 previous data breaches, such as Netflix, LinkedIn and Exploit.in. They know most people use the same password for multiple accounts. Data leak impact.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have demonstrated that Chrome browser extensions can steal passwords from the text input fields in websites, even if the extension is compliant with Chrome's latest security and privacy standard, Manifest V3. This creates a significant challenge for vendors like Google.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 7, 2024

What changed, and what is NIST's updated password guidance and the role of password strength in 2024?” One area where best practices have evolved significantly over the past twenty years is password security best practices. What are the key takeaways from NIST's updated password guidance?”

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

—Elie Bursztein, Cybersecurity Research Lead, Google Non-Traditional Authentication Methods Move the Needle Two contemporary trends in primary authentication are password managers and biometrics. Password managers are a tool which securely stores a user’s existing passwords and can assist in the creation of new, more secure passwords.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 27, 2021

A similar type of attack just played out against an Enterprise Password Management tool called Passwordstate. Supply chain cyberattack against password manager Passwordstate. Affected customers' password records may have been harvested.". Manual Upgrades of Passwordstate are not compromised.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 13, 2023

It's bad news for the US Department of the Interior—a Government watchdog’s security audit has revealed its passwords are simply not up to the job of warding off cracking attempts. Department of the Interior: Easily Cracked Passwords, Lack of Multifactor Authentication, and Other Failures Put Critical DOI Systems at Risk.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2022

Even though World Password Day is over, it's never too late to remind your end-users that weak, unimaginative, and easy-to-guess passwords—like "123456," "qwerty," and, well… "password"—are poor options for securing accounts and devices. Improving password best practices matters.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 16, 2024

Once the criminals are into an account, they can start changing settings like the account’s email address, phone number, and password, so the user can no longer log in, or they can simply clean out a bank account. Use a password manager. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today.

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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A Google Ads campaign was found pushing a fake KeePass download site that used Punycode to appear as the official domain of the KeePass password manager to distribute malware. [.]

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Let’s first look at how companies store passwords. When you set a password on a website, the company puts it through an encryption algorithm. For example, if your password was “hello” it might be stored as 2cf24dba5fb0a30e26e83b2ac5b9e29e1b161e5c1fa7425e73043362938b9824 and if your password was “Helloworld!”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, this article aims to educate consumers and businesses around the world to protect themselves against the growing number of data breaches with a secure password(pwd). 1) First never use a combination of words as password that are easy to guess like Iloveyou and 123456 and such.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The malware could harvest a huge trove of data from infected systems, including cookies, autofill, cryptocurrency wallets, 2FA authenticators, password managers, and email client information. To extract cookies from Chromium-based browsers, it downloads a module from the C&C to bypass App-Bound encryption.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

One of the most promising new features is the new Passwords app. Built on the foundation of Apple’s password management system Keychain, Passwords makes it easier for users to access stored passwords and get an overview of their credentials. And, admittedly, many of them come with a learning curve.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Very often, those addresses are accompanied by other personal information such as passwords. No, and the passwords are the very first thing that starts to give it all away. The attack is simple but effective due to the prevalence of password reuse. Clearly a Spotify breach, right? Billions of them, in some cases.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2024

•The extensions are capable of hooking into login events to redirect users to a page disguised as a password manager login. Extensions built on MV3 can steal site cookies, browsing history, bookmarks, and download history with ease, like their MV2 counterparts.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It then links directly through to 8.8GB worth of easily downloadable data breaches, all obtainable in a single ZIP file. Almost all the files are just email addresses and plain text passwords (the occasional file has a username that's not an email address and a password). But there's 18.6M So what can we conclude from this?

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Malwarebytes

JULY 12, 2024

AT&T says the customer data was illegally downloaded from its workspace on a third-party cloud platform. And which data is unlikely to be included: “The downloaded data doesn’t include the content of any calls or texts. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The threat actors set up websites cloning the official download websites for SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), KeePass password manager, and PDF Reader Pro. Researchers from BlackBerry uncovered a new RomCom RAT campaign impersonating popular software brands like KeePass, and SolarWinds.

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