Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Experts observed an ongoing coin miner campaign that injects a malicious VBScript into ZIP files posing as movie downloads. The campaign primarily targets users in Spain and South American countries, aims to launch a coin-mining shellcode directly in memory. ” reads the Tweet published by the Microsoft Security Intelligence team.

Mining 85

Mining File names Risk Cybersecurity 85

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

That link explains it in more detail but in short, it poses too big a risk for individuals, too big a risk for me personally and frankly, can't be done without taking the sorts of shortcuts that nobody should be taking with passwords in the first place! What's the Risk If My Data Is in There? In this case, it's almost 2.7

Data breaches 112

Data breaches Passwords Risk Personal data 112

Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

Because I myself have a Gab account which I created when started making commentary on them and Parler in Jan, naturally the first thing I did was to pull out my own record: Looking into the (alleged) @getongab data breach, many records don't have an email address or a password hash (mine has the former, but not the latter). Coincidence?

Passwords 145

Passwords Data breaches Mining Risk 145