Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In the first half of 2018, researchers at Kaspersky Lab said that the most popular attack vector against IoT devices remains cracking Telnet passwords (75,40%), followed by cracking SSH passwords (11,59%). Top 10 countries from which Kaspersky traps were hit by Telnet password attacks is led by Brazil, China, and Japan.

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IoT Honeypots Passwords Mining 82

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

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Passwords Encryption Authentication Mining 191

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2019 in more than 60 countries. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. rar archive files.

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Ransomware Archiving Passwords Encryption 70

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. EDR gains visibility on what’s happening on an organization’s endpoints by capturing activity data. The entire simulation ended 10 minutes after it started.

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Ransomware Digital transformation Access Cybersecurity 132

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.

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Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Encryption 237

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Use of Personal Data Should be Transparent and Easy to Understand. Back in September, a number of people pointed me at Experian's "FREE Dark Web Email Scan" (capitalisation is theirs, not mine) because on the surface of it, it seemed similar to my Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) service. Let's go back to the cat forum scenario again.

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Data breaches Personal data GDPR Data collection 53

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house.

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IoT Security Risk Cloud 143