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Dark Web Sales Driving Major Rise in Credential Attacks

Data Breach Today

Cybercriminals Netting Over 50 Credentials Per Infected Device, Kaspersky Says The value of corporate credentials in the cybercrime market contributed to a 643% increase in data theft attacks over the past three years, cybersecurity company Kaspersky says.

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267 Million Facebook User Records for Sale on Dark Net

Data Breach Today

Researchers: Information Could Be Used for Phishing, Other Schemes About 267 million Facebook user IDs and other user information is being offered for sale on a dark net site for about $540, according to cybersecurity intelligence firm Cyble, which says the data, which does not include passwords, could be used for phishing and other schemes.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. Historically, October has always been an important month for the cybersecurity community and a month of major cybersecurity events. October is for the cybersecurity world what Oktoberfest is for beer lovers.

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AnyDesk Incident: Customer Credentials Leaked and Published for Sale on the Dark Web

Security Affairs

Resecurity identified bad actors offering a significant number of AnyDesk customer credentials for sale on the Dark Web. Some users may not have changed their password, or this process might still be ongoing. Having additional context about a particular customer, the probability of a successful compromise could increase significantly.

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Top 2023 Security Affairs cybersecurity stories

Security Affairs

These are the Top 2023 Security Affairs cybersecurity stories … enjoy it. DARKBEAM LEAKS BILLIONS OF EMAIL AND PASSWORD COMBINATIONS DarkBeam left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records from previously reported and non-reported data breaches. TWO SPYWARE SENDING DATA OF MORE THAN 1.5M

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ParkMobile Breach Exposes License Plate Data, Mobile Numbers of 21M Users

Krebs on Security

The stolen data includes customer email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, license plate numbers, hashed passwords and mailing addresses. Gemini shared a new sales thread on a Russian-language crime forum that included my ParkMobile account information in the accompanying screenshot of the stolen data.

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GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

The Last Watchdog

It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. In addition, educating employees about cybersecurity issues can help to reinforce the security-minded culture of the organization and change employee behaviour. Change passwords regularly. The best practice is to change passwords every 90 days.