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. “The bottom line is at 2 a.m.

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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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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2023

No passcode fallback is available in the event that the user is unable to complete Face ID or Touch ID authentication. No passcode fallback is available in the event that the user is unable to complete Face ID or Touch ID authentication.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2025

This is where a bot takes a password and email address that has been stolen and leaked online, and then tries those credentials across a myriad of services in the hope that its owner will have reused the password elsewhere. Don’t reuse passwords. These account takeover attacks have skyrocketed lately. Protect your PC.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Inside the archive is an MSI file and a TXT file with a password required for installation. In many cases, the instructions and the password are also provided on the websites and channels from which the user downloaded the malicious archive. As a result, the user will not be able to view the contents of the directory. com gamejump[.]site

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Then, it re-encrypts the system using a randomly generated password. This unique password is uploaded to a server controlled by the attacker. The random password is generated from network traffic and memory data, making brute-forcing difficult.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

txt" had a small number of email address and password hex pairs. I mean can we trust that both the email addresses and passwords from these alleged breaches represent actual accounts on those services? txt" and true to its name, it appears from the forgotten password email that they were never even hashed in the first place.

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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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Troy Hunt

MAY 14, 2022

Geez it was nice to not only be back at an event, but out there socialising and attending all the related things that tend to go along with it. A short one this week as the previous 7 days disappeared with AusCERT and other commitments. Detect suspicious behavior and strengthen your Salesforce security posture.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

Website, username and password: That's just the first 20 rows out of 5 million in that particular file, but it gives you a good sense of the data. The question of how valid the accompanying passwords remain aside, time and time again the email addresses in the stealer logs checked out on the services they appeared alongside.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 2, 2022

Researchers have demonstrated controlling touchscreens at a distance, at least in a laboratory setting: The core idea is to take advantage of the electromagnetic signals to execute basic touch events such as taps and swipes into targeted locations of the touchscreen with the goal of taking over remote control and manipulating the underlying device.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 14, 2022

" Check that out and a whole heap more in this week's video below 👇 References As travel gradually resumes, there are more events you can now catch me at (stay tuned for one in Tasmania in July too) It was 7 years ago today I left a 14 year career at Pfizer. (.and and never once looked back!) Try it free!

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 8, 2021

Ever notice how there was a massive gap of almost 9 months between announcing the intention to start open sourcing Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) in August last year and then finally a couple of weeks ago, actually taking the first step with Pwned Passwords ? I was pretty excited when I saw PRs coming in right after launching that last blog post.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 17, 2022

my first time back at an NDC since London in early 2020, and the inaugural event for Melbourne) The DivX SubTitles breach was 783k records worth of plain text passwords (it's a 12-year-old incident, but still.) but very heavy listening I need to break into smaller sessions) It's NDC Melbourne nest week!

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2024

Case in point: a colossal password compilation dubbed "RockYou2024" has emerged, containing nearly 10 billion unique passwords. The name "RockYou2024" pays homage to the infamous RockYou data breach of 2009, which exposed 32 million passwords due to insecure storage practices.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 13, 2020

I felt genuinely excited talking about this; they'll be less than half the price of in-person events, no travel, no accommodation costs and we've both run a heap of these remotely in the past too so this is a pretty well-known process for us. I'll be publishing information about these events early next week.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 15, 2025

Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you dont use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

.” In a SIM-swapping attack, crooks transfer the target’s phone number to a device they control and intercept any text messages or phone calls sent to the victim — including one-time passcodes for authentication, or password reset links sent via SMS.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

USDoD claimed they grabbed the data by using passwords stolen from a Turkish airline employee who had third-party access to Airbus’ systems. And when all of your passwords are stolen and your important accounts have been hijacked or sold, you will wish you had simply paid for the real thing.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 2, 2021

See the references for all the details, but plenty of cyber, some IoT weather station discussion and a bit of chatter around career and me deciding I want to do a "Hack Your Career More" talk once we all get back to doing events in person. Stay tuned for that last one in particular!

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Recently, these scammers have branched out into offering fake streaming services for nearly any kind of event advertised on Facebook. Apkdownloadweb has a Facebook page , which shows a number of “live video” teasers for sports events that have already happened, and says its domain is apkdownloadweb[.]com. net for DNS.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Spoutible incident just has so many interesting aspects to it: loads of data that should never be returned publicly, awesome response time to the disclosure, lacklustre transparency in their disclosure, some really fundamental misunderstands about hashing algorithms and a controversy-laden past if you read back over events of the last year.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2025

If interested, the victim will receive a download link and a password for the archive containing the promised installer. Part of the Nova Stealers infrastructure is a Discord webhook which allows the criminals to have the server send data to the client whenever a certain event occurs.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Coding, IoT'ing, 3D printing and a milestone academic event for Ari: Primary school - done! It's been a busy week with lots of little bits and pieces demanding my attention.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Disable compromised accounts or restrict their permissions immediately, update passwords for authorized users to prevent further unauthorized access. ISO 22317: Focuses on Business Impact Analysis (BIA), detailing the processes for identifying and evaluating the impact of different events on business operations.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 29, 2018

The penny first dropped for me just over 7 years ago to the day: The only secure password is the one you can't remember. In an era well before the birth of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), I was doing a bunch of password analysis on data breaches and wouldn't you know it - people are terrible at creating passwords! Everywhere.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 21, 2024

For real, this it perhaps the most Nordic thing I've ever seen (Stefán being from Iceland and all), but unfortunately videos don't really lend themselves to hero images, so I went switch a stylised AI-generated rendition of the event.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 12, 2022

everywhere) Here's that UniFi Protect Theta cam (they're pumping out so much cool stuff lately 😎) The stage at NEXTGEN's Cyber Republic event was pretty awesome (the delayed flight home, late night and early start the next day was.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

To illustrate the point, last quarter our own Cisco Talos team saw a surge in password-spraying attacks. In the case of password spray, looking for startling increase in authentication traffic can be vital. In the final part of the demo, Duo transmitted the event to SGNL, who revoked the users SaaS application sessions.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2025

The Breach Notification Rule requires the provision of a notification to affected individuals, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and, in certain circumstances, to the media, in the event of a breach of unsecured PHI. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

“The NKTsKI recommends that all organizations change passwords and keys for accessing their systems operated in LANIT data processing centers as soon as possible. ” NKTsKI recommends organizations to strengthen monitoring of threats and information security events in systems provided by LANIT.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

As I find myself continually caveating, YMMV but it does feel like events are being overly dramatised by some at present. because it's a holiday in America, we've made my book cheaper 😊) Sponsored by: 1Password, a secure password manager, is building the passwordless experience you deserve. See how passkeys work.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This allows specific and enforceable demands to be made: “Give us the passwords for these three encrypted files with names A, B and C, or else…”. Precursor is a device we designed to keep secrets, such as passwords, wallets, authentication tokens, contacts and text messages. Here’s my analysis of one such system.)

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

Internationally, there is no doubt that this predominantly serves to facilitate the detection and blocking of topics sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party, such as the events of June 4, 1989, in Tiananmen Square. Password leaks are commonplace. Employees often reuse passwords between other services and accounts.

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Hacking Passwords Internet Internet 243

Troy Hunt

APRIL 16, 2020

Ok, not your normal start to a weekly update but yeah, we had a bit of an infestation this week which did take the mind of other current events for a while. No, there isn't a "Zoom data breach" and yes, people keep using shitty passwords (c'mon media, it's not hard to report on this accurately!)

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SecureList

APRIL 8, 2025

The infection chain: from searching for office software to downloading an installer The downloaded archive contains another password-protected archive, installer.zip , and a Readme.txt file with the password. The installer files lack an archive password. This file contains the password for the RAR archive.

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