Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

“We believe PGMiner is the first cryptocurrency mining botnet that is delivered via PostgreSQL.” The PGminer botnet targets Postgress that have default user “ postgres ”, and performs a brute-force attack iterating over a built-in list of popular passwords such as “ 112233 “ and “ 1q2w3e4r “ to bypass authentication.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2023

shc executables are typically used as loaders and prepare the system for mining via Diicot’s custom fork of XMRig, along with registering persistence.” This campaign specifically targets SSH servers exposed to the internet with password authentication enabled. ” reads the report published by Cado.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

VASCO long ago established itself as a leading supplier of authentication technology to 2,000 banks worldwide. LaSala: We’re the world’s largest vendor of hardware authentication. No one liked the use case where you typed in a password from a hardware dongle into your mobile application. LW: Let’s come back to that.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access. Armed with access to your inbox, thieves can then reset the password for any other service or account that is tied to that email address.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

ESET researchers also said the attackers also attempt to exploit RDP connections to try to install coin-mining malware or create a backdoor. ” Unfortunately, most organizations often neglect the protection of RDP accesses and workers use easy-to-guess passwords and with no additional layers of authentication or protection.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2019

“It also steals saved passwords in Chrome. By leveraging the combination of stolen login credentials, web cookies, and SMS data, based on past attacks like this, we believe the bad actors could bypass multi-factor authentication for these sites. .” reads the analysis published by PaloAlto Networks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

The backdoor was used by attackers to inject mining code in Ruby projects using the malicious versions of the libraries. It overloaded the #authenticate method on the Identity class. Every time the method gets called it will send the email/password to the attacker.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. Cloud security firm Aqua Security uncovered a hacking campaign carried out during the past months, hackers are scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

. “This aspect of the campaign expands the mining operation to support computers running Linux. When it finds them, it launches an SSH brute force attack on these machines, with the username root and a hardcoded list of passwords.” ” reads the post published by Sophos.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

One of the threat types that surfaced and thrived since the introduction of cryptocurrency, cryptojackers are mining malware that hijacks and consumes a target’s device resources for the former’s gain and without the latter’s knowledge or consent. Password and info stealers. Ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The database required no authentication. Before it was taken offline sometime in the past 12 hours, the database contained millions of records, including the username, password and private encryption key of each mSpy customer who logged in to the mSpy site or purchased an mSpy license over the past six months.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

“Using vished credentials, cybercriminals mined the victim company databases for their customers’ personal information to leverage in other attacks. In some cases, bad actors used a SIM-Swap attack on the employees obtain the 2FA and OTP authentication code sent to the victims’ phones.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The crypto-miner set up a secret master password that uses to access any user account on the system. A case in point: the way Skidmap can also set up a secret master password that gives it access to any user account in the system.” The kaudited binary also drops a watchdog component used to monitor the mining process.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You can find out more about security testing on our website >> TechCrunch reports that the dating site OkCupid has denied suffering a data breach after users complained that their accounts had been hacked, and their passwords and associated email addresses changed. All websites constantly experience account takeover attempts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Microsoft warns that threat actors are using OAuth applications cryptocurrency mining campaigns and phishing attacks. Threat actors are using OAuth applications such as an automation tool in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and other financially motivated attacks. ” states Microsoft.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As much as I love this one friend of mine, nothing is private when we’re together. Once the number has been transferred, the criminal has control of any accounts that are identified by caller ID (including many financial institutions) as well as any accounts protected by two-factor authentication. You probably have a friend like this.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

“I suspect it’s probably a derivate of other IoT crypto mining botnets,” Cashdollar told The Register. “Unsecured services with unpatched vulnerabilities or weak passwords are prime targets for exploitation and abuse. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.” ” Cashdollar concludes.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

It began with a visit to the local Telstra store earlier this month to upgrade a couple of phone plans which resulted in me sitting alone by this screen whilst the Telstra staffer disappeared into the back room for a few minutes: Is it normal for @Telstra to display customer passwords on publicly facing terminals in their stores?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. See the Top Rootkit Scanners.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 30, 2019

encryption, two-factor authentication and key management) to protect their data from hackers. The four key methods of an ethical hacker include: Monitoring: They’ll monitor a company to understand the data it creates and stores and where any sensitive data is — the gold mine hackers are after.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

In this blog, and in an accompanying one by my Thales colleague Juan Asenjo, we will discuss the subject of big data analytics, and how it is enabling a new behavior-based authentication evolution for easier and more robust identity management. That’s why behavioral analytics is so important for identity, authentication, and fraud detection.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The partners aim to combine fingerprint and facial data to more effectively authenticate employees in workplace settings. It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software. The partnering of SureID and Robbie.AI Secure credentialing.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 27, 2021

Both these announcements are being made at a time where Pwned Passwords is seeing unprecedented growth: Getting closer and closer to the 1B requests a month mark for @haveibeenpwned 's Pwned Passwords. Speaking of natural fits, Pwned Passwords is perfect for this model and that's why we're starting here.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

That means hackers will increasingly mimic nation-state threat groups by establishing a long-term presence inside networks to mine highly sensitive data. Additionally, attacks are poised to become even more damaging as companies expand their digital footprint and the attack surface grows. But how effective is zero trust?

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

These Trojans have the ability to steal your web browser history and inputs even as they use your computing power to mine cryptocurrencies—this type of Trojans are very recent and run covertly in the background; the only thing you will note is your computer lagging. Avoid downloading files from sites whose authenticity you cannot verify.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). I encourage you to read Sandy’s blog Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Fraud and Behavioral Analytics to learn more about behavioral biometric authentication and get a more complete picture of this interesting and timely subject.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. It is a fork of XMRIG project, one of the most popular software to mine monero crypto values.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

I've regularly quoted the NCSC in particular, for example there's a bunch of their work in my recent blog post about authentication guidance for the modern era. I'm very happy that HIBP is now a resource the UK and Aus governments can draw on to help their people help all of us live happier (and hopefully less pwned!)

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

" because I had no expectation at all of any of that data being publicly available (note: phone number is optional, I chose to add mine). 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?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. Users were encouraged to change their passwords.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” SEPTEMBER. A report commissioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reveals that most big U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

April 13, 2024 Delinea Secret Server Patched After Researcher’s Public Disclosure Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass. The problem: The command line interface (CLI) for AWS and Google Cloud can allow attackers with CLI access to obtain passwords, user names, and other secrets used to access cloud repositories.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Authentication: The identities of the sender and receiver—as well as the origin and destination of the information—are confirmed. Consider the security vulnerability of a database of stored bank account passwords. Without knowing the user’s password, the hash value cannot be broken. are kept secure.

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