Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The conversation bounced around from the Silk Road, to recently seized bitcoin, to stolen passwords, to ways cyber criminals share software and information with each other. Data stolen in breaches, such as usernames and passwords, are widely available. Here’s what you can do to protect yourself and your team.Don't reuse passwords.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 30, 2024

The post Brits Ban Default Passwords — and More IoT Stupidity appeared first on Security Boulevard. Nice Cup of IoTea? The UK’s Product Security and Tele­comm­uni­cations Infra­struc­ture Act aims to improve the security of net-connected consumer gear.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Ueland said after hearing about the escrow.com hack Monday evening he pulled the domain name system (DNS) records for escrow.com and saw they were pointing to an Internet address in Malaysia — 111.90.149[.]49 The employee involved in this incident fell victim to a spear-fishing or social engineering attack.

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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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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) devices in general have earned a reputation for poor cybersecurity, and internet-connected cameras are no exception. Case in point: unsecured webcams make up the top three out of the five most popular searches on Shodan , an IoT-centric search engine that specializes in identifying unsecure devices online.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

Phishing scams skyrocketed as citizens self-isolated during the lockdown, and social-engineering schemes defrauded Internet users of millions.”. Quidd (4 million records): An archive of 4 million usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords from online marketplace Quidd were found online following an April data breach.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. And yet almost every Internet account requires one.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The victim shaming site operated by the Snatch ransomware group is leaking data about its true online location and internal operations, as well as the Internet addresses of its visitors, KrebsOnSecurity has found. Probably the most active Internet address accessing Snatch’s darknet site is 193.108.114[.]41 top , sntech2ch[.]top

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 8, 2020

A lot of people are thinking about the security of their home network right now, and as one of the project leaders on the OWASP Internet of Things Security Project , I wanted to provide three levels of security you can do at home. There are security/hacker types that maintain massive repositories of passwords.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 15, 2021

A little bit of a change of pace this week with the video being solely on the events unfolding around removing content, people and even entire platforms from the internet. It also raises some fascinating engineering challenges; could Parler have survived by building out their own physical infrastructure?

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. This is the Internet of Things, and it's a security nightmare. But like nearly all innovation, there are risks involved. This law is not a panacea.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

“They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords. They went to a dummy site controlled by the hackers and entered their credentials in a way that served up their usernames and passwords as well as multifactor authentication codes.” “vishing”). .

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this article, we will dive deep into the sea of phishing and vishing, sharing real-world stories and insights we’ve encountered during social engineering tests to highlight the importance of awareness. After entering their username and password, I asked if they had received an MFA code.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. In October 2012, the WorldWiredLabs domain moved to another dedicated server at the Internet address 198.91.90.7,

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts. John Turner is a software engineer based in Salt Lake City. ” To be clear, Experian does have a business unit that sells one-time password services to businesses.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 30, 2021

NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. 11 this year, now would be a good time to care of that. .

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Most of the flaws that Microsoft deems “more likely to be exploited” this month are marked as “important,” which usually involve bugs that require a bit more user interaction (social engineering) but which nevertheless can result in system security bypass, compromise, and the theft of critical assets.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2021

While you read these words, the chances are that somebody, somewhere, is trying to break in to your computer by guessing your password. If your computer is connected to the Internet it can be found, quickly, and if it can be found, somebody will try to break in. And computers can think of a lot of passwords. RDP explained.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? .” ru in 2008.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? no password). And because users are not required to set a secure password in the initial setup phase, it is likely that a large number of devices are accessible via these default credentials.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Related: How PKI could secure the Internet of Things If that sounds too complicated to grasp, take a look at the web address for the home page of this website. They need to be extremely careful about checking the authenticity of a site when providing personal information, passwords or payment information.” I’ll keep watch.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As a result, we are stuck with hackable internet protocols, computers that are riddled with vulnerabilities and networks that are easily penetrated. A refrigerator is now a computer that keeps things cold; a car is now a computer with four wheels and an engine. But that computer with four wheels and an engine?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2024

22, 2022, in which they offered the email address and password for 659 members of the Brazilian Federal Police. Additional reporting revealed National Public Data had inadvertently published its own passwords on the Internet. The company is now the target of multiple class-action lawsuits, and recently declared bankruptcy.

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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2020

Until recently, I couldn’t quite work out what Privnotes was up to, but today it became crystal clear: Any messages containing bitcoin addresses will be automatically altered to include a different bitcoin address, as long as the Internet addresses of the sender and receiver of the message are not the same. The altered message. .”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. Searching DomainTools for domains that include both of these terms reveals pirwnote[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

Satnam Narang , senior staff research engineer at Tenable, said the August patch batch addresses CVE-2023-36884 , which involves bypassing the Windows Search Security feature. “Despite the high rating, the belief is that brute-force attacks won’t be successful against accounts with strong passwords. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

Following a recent and highly disruptive cyberattack on telecom carrier Orange España , the cybersecurity community needs to rethink its approach to safeguarding the digital identity of staff involved in network engineering and IT infrastructure management.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2022

Vincent (Vince) Moore, Senior Network Engineer at OPSWAT, has dabbled in the IT field since he took computer programming classes in high school (COBOL, Fortran, GWBASIC, and Pascal). The post A Cybersecurity Conversation with Vince Moore – Senior Network Engineer at OPSWAT appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. employees,?and

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty. Can you spot the subtle difference in the domain name compared to the search engine? That's why Troy recommends password managers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. 4 it became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. A review of the Internet addresses historically used by Super-socks[.]biz Image: Spur.us.

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