A notorious Russian APT group has been stealing credentials for years by exploiting a Windows Print Spooler bug and using a novel post-compromise tool known as “GooseEgg,” Microsoft has revealed. APT28 (aka Strontium, Forest Blizzard) has been using GooseEgg since potentially as far back as April 2019 to exploit CVE-2022-38028, Microsoft said in a new […]
Cybercrime as-a-service , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , ID Fraud Cybercriminals Netting Over 50 Credentials Per Infected Device, Kaspersky Says Jayant Chakravarti (@JayJay_Tech) • April 18, 2024 A rise in infostealer malware attacks over the past three years has enabled cybercriminal groups to turn credential stealing into a major money-making business, paving the […]
The British Library ransomware attack was likely caused by the compromise of third-party credentials coupled with no multifactor authentication (MFA) in place to stop the attackers, despite previous warnings about these risks. This is according to a British Library report that sheds new light on the October 2023 attack, which shut down digital services and […]
Sensitive Swiss federal government data, including classified documents and log in credentials, were leaked by the Play ransomware group following an attack on IT service provider Xplain in 2023. An investigation by Switzerland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed that around 65,000 documents relating to the federal government were published by the attackers on the […]
Hundreds of network operators’ credentials found circulating in Dark Web Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2024 Hundreds of compromised credentials of customers of RIPE, APNIC, AFRINIC, and LACNIC are available on the dark web, Resecurity warns. Resecurity conducted a thorough scan of the Dark Web and identified over 1,572 compromised customers of RIPE, Asia-Pacific Network Information […]
Enlarge Getty Images Nearly 71 million unique credentials stolen for logging into websites such as Facebook, Roblox, eBay, and Yahoo have been circulating on the Internet for at least four months, a researcher said Wednesday. Troy Hunt, operator of the Have I Been Pwned? breach notification service, said the massive amount of data was posted […]
The latest leak from BidenCash includes payment card credentials in plain text, but unlike the site’s previous leaks, it does not include names or emails of cardholders. BidenCash, a notorious dark web carding marketplace, has leaked over 1.6 million valid payment card data including debit and credit card details on a notorious Russian language cybercrime […]
A number of popular mobile password managers are inadvertently spilling user credentials due to a vulnerability in the autofill functionality of Android apps. The vulnerability, dubbed “AutoSpill,” can expose users’ saved credentials from mobile password managers by circumventing Android’s secure autofill mechanism, according to university researchers at the IIIT Hyderabad, who discovered the vulnerability and […]
Nov 28, 2023The Hacker NewsCybercrime / Breach Prevention Account credentials, a popular initial access vector, have become a valuable commodity in cybercrime. As a result, a single set of stolen credentials can put your organization’s entire network at risk. According to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, external parties were responsible for 83 percent […]
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