Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A botnet of 130,000+ devices is attacking Microsoft 365 accounts via password-spraying, bypassing MFA by exploiting basic authentication. SecurityScorecard researchers discovered a botnet of over 130,000 devices that is conducting password-spray attacks against Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts worldwide. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

A previously unknown threat actor released config files and VPN passwords for Fortinet FortiGate devices on a popular cybercrime forum. A previously unknown threat actor named Belsen Group published configuration files and VPN passwords for over 15,000 Fortinet FortiGate appliances. “2025 will be a fortunate year for the world.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Username domainuser -Password password Note: I’ve tried to provide time stamps and output during run-time, so you know what it’s doing. Hopefully the functionality will help people better understand where there may be risk of password exposure, data exposure, or command execution. They are all run automatically.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

We've also added 244M passwords we've never seen before to Pwned Passwords and updated the counts against another 199M that were already in there. The file in the image above contained over 36 million rows of data consisting of website URLs and the email addresses and passwords entered into them.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 8, 2025

The advisory highlights an “unverified password change vulnerability [CWE-620] in FortiSwitch GUI“ This flaw may enable “a remote unauthenticated attacker to modify admin passwords via […] The post Fortinet: Critical Unverified Password Change Flaw in FortiSwitch appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The post Ground Rule of Cyber Hygiene: Keep Your Password Policy Up to Date appeared first on Security Boulevard. Research shows that most organizations and users fail to follow the simple practices that make computing safe. In 2024, organizations reported a.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 14, 2025

Learn how to use LastPass to manage your passwords securely. Follow this step-by-step guide to enhance your online security with ease.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 1, 2025

That is, does the reset erase the old encryption key, or just sever the password that access that key? .—on phones so it can’t be recovered? Does resetting a phone to factory defaults erase data, or is it still recoverable? When the phone is rebooted, are deleted files still available?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2025

Fortinet addressed a critical vulnerability in its FortiSwitch devices that can be exploited to change administrator passwords remotely. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to change administrator passwords. ” reads the advisory. . ” reads the advisory. Upgrade to 7.6.1 or above FortiSwitch 7.4 through 7.4.4

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2025

Microsoft warns that threat actor Storm-1977 is behind password spraying attacksagainst cloud tenants in the education sector. Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence researchers observed a threat actor, tracked as Storm-1977, using AzureChecker.exe to launch password spray attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Tip 2: Implementing Strong Password Policies Weak passwords can be easily compromised, giving attackers access to sensitive systems and data. LastPass reports that 80% of all hacking-related breaches leveraged either stolen and/or weak passwords.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 29, 2024

unique passwords provided by law enforcement agencies into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) following botnet takedowns in a campaign they've coined Operation Endgame. The only data we've been provided with is email addresses and disassociated password hashes, that is they don't appear alongside a corresponding address.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2025

In this scam, dubbed “ ClickFix ,” the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware. Executing this series of keypresses prompts Windows to download password-stealing malware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2025

. “There has been a sharp increase in the number of cases of unauthorized access and unauthorized trading (trading by third parties) on Internet trading services using stolen customer information (login IDs, passwords, etc.) Avoid password reuse, choose complex passwords, and check account activity often.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2025

Threat actors were spotted exploiting the default super admin account (admin@LocalDomain), which often still uses the weak default password password. Even fully patched devices can be compromised if password hygiene is poor. Arctic Wolf is monitoring the situation and urges organizations to secure all local accounts.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As I said, our IT department recently notified me that some of my data was leaked and a pre-emptive password reset was enforced as they didn't know what was leaked.    It would be good to see it as an informational notification in case there's an increase in attack attempts against my email address.

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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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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2025

Use a different password for every account. If you get your username and password stolen on one account you dont want scammers to be able to use it on another. Password managers help you create complex passwords, and they remember them for you. Double checking in this way could save you doing something you later regret.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They dont crack into password managers or spy on passwords entered for separate apps. If enough victims unwittingly send their passwords, the cyber thieves may even bundle the login credentials for sale on the dark web. The requests are bogus and simply a method for harvesting passwords.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

If you find an app from this family or another information stealer on your device, there are a few guidelines to follow to limit the damage: 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. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These devices typically don’t support browsers, making it difficult to sign in using more standard forms of authentication, such as entering user names, passwords, and two-factor mechanisms. Authentication through device code flow is designed for logging printers, smart TVs, and similar devices into accounts.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

That's not unprecedented, but this is: password: "$2y$10$B0EhY/bQsa5zUYXQ6J.NkunGvUfYeVOH8JM1nZwHyLPBagbVzpEM2", No way! Is that genuinely a bcrypt hash of my own password? Yep, that's exactly what it is : The Spoutible API enabled any user to retrieve the bcrypt hash of any other user's password.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The two infostealers allowed operators to harvest usernames, passwords, contact info, and crypto-wallets from victims, the threat actors sold this data to criminals for financial theft and hacking. Use a password manager : Simplifies managing strong, unique passwords across accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

If they log in, now their username and password belong to the hacker, Zilberstein explained. Use a strong, unique password for your Netflix account. If you suspect youve already clicked a scam link, change your Netflix password immediately and check your payment details for unauthorized charges.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2024

31M records breached The breach exposed user records including email addresses, screen names and bcrypt password hashes. HIBP confirmed that the stolen archive had 31M records, including email address, screen name, bcrypt password hash, and timestamps for password changes. Internet Archive hacked.

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Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This issue arises from an insecure initial password... The post Unpatched Epson Devices at Risk: CVE-2024-47295 Allows Easy Hijacking appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

The bank unexpectedly sent me a temporary password to sign up, and when I did, the temporary password had expired. But then, after I went to reset the password, the bank emailed me a one time code. Which is a fine practice, and brings me to the question: Why expire the first passwords at all? Why make it harder?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2025

It finally recommends using strong, unique passwords (min. 10 characters, mix of letters, numbers, symbols) for both Wi-Fi and admin pages and avoiding reusing passwords or using easy sequences like 1234567890. ” concludes the security advisory.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

.” Compromised data include names, emails, phone numbers, partial card info for some campus diners, and hashed passwords from legacy systems. The company reset affected passwords. The data breach did not expose passwords, merchant logins, full card numbers, bank details, or Social Security numbers.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 27, 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

MARCH 26, 2024

Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. “It was like this system notification from Apple to approve [a reset of the account password], but I couldn’t do anything else with my phone.

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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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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Though cookies themselves don’t steal passwords, they can be hijacked to access sensitive data. Adopt Strong Password Policies Promote the use of strong, unique passwords and enforce regular password updates. Then, invalidate active sessions, update passwords and security keys, and then refresh the website software.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2025

In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing…

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