Threatpost

JANUARY 22, 2021

The new tools on Chrome and Edge will make it easier for browser users to discover - and change - compromised passwords.

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Dark Reading

JULY 18, 2022

Tools purporting to help organizations recover lost passwords for PLCs are really droppers for malware targeting industrial control systems, vendor says.

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Threatpost

JULY 21, 2021

In another vast software supply-chain attack, the password-stealer is filching credentials from Chrome on Windows systems via ChromePass.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 11, 2022

New research demonstrates the use of thermal camera images of keyboards and screens in concert with AI to correctly guess computer passwords faster and more accurately.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2021

We celebrated World Password Day on May 6, 2021. Every year, the first Thursday in May serves as a reminder for us to take control of our personal password strategies. Passwords are now an expected and typical part of our data-driven online lives. Passwords are now an expected and typical part of our data-driven online lives.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 31, 2023

John the Ripper is a popular password cracking tool that can be used to perform brute-force attacks using different encryption technologies and helpful wordlists. It’s often what pen-testers and ethical hackers use to find the true passwords behind hashes. For our example, we won’t need a powerful machine.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I think I've pretty much captured it all in the title of this post but as of about a day ago, Pwned Passwords now has full parity between the SHA-1 hashes that have been there since day 1 and NTLM hashes. So, Chief Pwned Passwords Wrangler Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson got to work and just went ahead and built it all for you.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Group-IB cybersecurity researchers recently identified several Russian-speaking cybercrime groups offering infostealing malware-as-a-service (MaaS), resulting in the theft of more than 50 million passwords thus far. Don’t save passwords in browser. Read next: Best Password Management Software & Tools.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Last March, just two weeks after GPT-4 was released , researchers at Microsoft quietly announced a plan to compile millions of APIs—tools that can do everything from ordering a pizza to solving physics equations to controlling the TV in your living room—into a compendium that would be made accessible to large language models (LLMs).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2023

KeePass addressed the CVE-2023-32784 bug that allows the extraction of the cleartext master password from the memory of the client. KeePass has addressed the CVE-2023-32784 vulnerability, which allowed the retrieval of the clear-text master password from the client’s memory. x versions. reads the post published by the Vdohney.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In late October, this author received a tip from Wisconsin-based security firm Hold Security that a file containing a staggering number of internal usernames and passwords for Orvis had been posted to Pastebin. “We are leveraging our existing security tools to conduct an investigation to determine how this occurred.”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Pen tests are often performed by third parties, but as these outside tests can be expensive and become dated quickly, many organizations perform their own tests with pen testing tools, using their own IT personnel for their red teams (attackers). Others include vulnerability scanning tools and vulnerability management solutions.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

It can be a real hassle to keep track of the passwords you use. So many people use the same combination of username and password for every account. You see, these days, many data breaches could be traced back to people using the same password across multiple accounts. And finding that password is even easier.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2022

The streaming media platform Plex is urging its users to reset passwords after threat actors gained access to its database. Exposed data includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords. The company is urging all users to immediately reset account passwords and log out of all devices connected to its service.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This has given rise to a large number of open source security tools. However, the tools themselves vary considerably in scope, sophistication, and function. The editors of eSecurity Planet find the following 20 open source security tools to be particularly useful. The Best Open Source Security Tools. WhiteSource.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Password compromise led to unauthorized access to a customer contract search tool over a five-month window, according to the company.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Attackers exclusively target Windows users with an impersonation website that distributes information-stealing malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

Threat actors behind the campaign used multiple accounts across several social media platforms to advertise password-cracking software for Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Human-Machine Interface (HMI), and project files. The password cracking software also acts as a dropper for the Sality P2P bot. ” concludes the report.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2023

Nearly half of EDR tools and organizations are vulnerable to Clop ransomware gang tactics, according to tests by a cybersecurity company. To identify suspicious activity and malware traversal, use network monitoring tools. Password suggestions should be disabled, and frequent password changes should be avoided.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

A researcher found a flaw in Windows OS, tracked as PetitPotam, that can be exploited to force remote Windows machines to share their password hashes. “PoC tool to coerce Windows hosts to authenticate to other machines via MS-EFSRPC EfsRpcOpenFileRaw function. The news of the attack was first reported by The Record.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The network security vendor said the credentials were stolen from systems that remain unpatched against a two-year-old vulnerability – CVE-2018-13379 – or from users who patched that vulnerability but failed to change passwords. Treat all credentials as potentially compromised and perform an organization-wide password reset.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 18, 2022

Already, previous versions of the Rubber Ducky could carry out attacks like creating a fake Windows pop-up box to harvest a user’s login credentials or causing Chrome to send all saved passwords to an attacker’s webserver.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

Microsoft released an open-source tool to secure MikroTik routers and check for indicators of compromise for Trickbot malware infections. Microsoft has released an open-source tool, dubbed RouterOS Scanner, that can be used to secure MikroTik routers and check for indicators of compromise associated with Trickbot malware infections.

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 16, 2023

We’re thrilled to announce that the power of KnowBe4’s most popular free password security tool has been brought to your KnowBe4 console as a new feature!

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

For this study, a data breach was defined as an intruder copying or leaking user data such as names, surnames, email addresses, passwords, etc. More than two thirds of American accounts are leaked with the password, putting breached users in danger of account takeover. Essential security tool.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 7, 2021

He's not a techie (he runs a pizza restaurant), but somehow, we ended up talking about passwords. That last point is really important: had I not spent that hour with my mate, he would have had to find his own way through a tool he'd never seen before then attempt to change life-long practices all in one go.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool GC2 in an attack against a Taiwanese media organization. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team reported that the China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool Google Command and Control ( GC2 ) in an attack against an unnamed Taiwanese media organization.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The feature will check the strength of saved passwords and alert users when they're compromised in a breach.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2020

A severe vulnerability impacting TeamViewer for Windows, tracked as CVE 2020-13699, could be exploited by remote attackers to steal the system password. TeamViewer has recently addressed a high-risk vulnerability ( CVE 2020-13699 ), that could be exploited by remote attackers to steal system password and potentially compromise it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 16, 2023

Enterprise Secrets Management Explained: Best Practices, Challenges, and Tool Selection madhav Thu, 08/17/2023 - 06:28 Whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, modern applications and integrations have accelerated the need for digital secrets. This includes sensitive data such as passwords, encryption keys, APIs, tokens, and certificates.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 4, 2020

Since launching version 2 of Pwned Passwords with the k-anonymity model just over 2 years ago now, the thing has really gone nuts (read that blog post for background otherwise nothing from here on will make much sense). They could be searching for any password whose SHA-1 hash begins with those characters. Very slick!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2023

In the hands of malicious actors, the leaked credentials could have served as a tool to craft a cyberattack against the chain’s systems. Google Tag Manager is a tool used to optimize update measurement codes and related code fragments, collectively known as tags, on a website or mobile app.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Instagram has suffered a serious security leak that might have exposed user’s passwords, revealed The Information website. Instagram notified some of its users that it might have accidentally exposed their password due to a security glitch. an Instagram spokesperson told The Verge. an Instagram spokesperson told The Verge.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

Related: Microsoft advocates regulation of facial recognition tools. This is one giant leap towards getting rid of passwords entirely. Excising passwords as the security linchpin to digital services is long, long overdue. No small part of the problem is that passwords and MFA require a significant amount of human interaction.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2023

The file contained PostgreSQL and Redis databases credentials, including host, port, username, and password. Among leaked credentials, researchers also found the host, username, and password for Mailgun email services used by the company. env) hosted on the official Neho’s website.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2023

Resecurity identified the emergence of adversarial mobile Android-based Antidetect Tooling for Mobile OS-Based Fraud. Resecurity has identified the emergence of adversarial mobile Android-based tools (called “mobile anti-detects”), like Enclave and McFly, as a new frontier in fraud tradecraft evolution.

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