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fromSecurityWeek
2 months ago

Iranian Hackers Likely Used Malware-Stolen Credentials in Stryker Breach

Stryker cyberattack involved compromised administrator credentials obtained through infostealer malware, enabling attackers to abuse Microsoft Intune for device wiping.
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fromTheregister
2 months ago

Crooks compromise WordPress sites, spread infostealers

Attackers compromised legitimate WordPress sites including a US Senate candidate's website to distribute infostealer malware through fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA pages that trick users into running malicious commands.
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fromSecurityWeek
3 months ago

The Blast Radius Problem: Stolen Credentials are Weaponizing Agentic AI

Over half of tracked vulnerabilities require no authentication, while AI amplifies attacker capabilities and supply chain breaches surge fourfold, creating expanding security risks.
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fromTechRepublic
4 months ago

Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook

A publicly exposed, unprotected database contained 149,404,754 account credentials (96GB), including government, cryptocurrency, and consumer logins, likely harvested by infostealer malware.
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fromWIRED
4 months ago

149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database

A publicly exposed database of 149 million account credentials—including 48M Gmail, 17M Facebook, and others—was hosted and then taken down for violating host terms.
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fromTheregister
4 months ago

Crims punish Wired subscribers by publishing personal info

Conde Nast subscriber data was leaked after a criminal group published millions of email addresses and threatened to release 40+ million more.
fromTechCrunch
6 months ago

Police take down three cybercrime operations in latest round of 'whack-a-mole' | TechCrunch

An international coalition of law enforcement agencies coordinated by Europol targeted and took down three cybercrime operations in its latest round of what authorities call "Operation Endgame." In a press release, Europol said that the police operation targeted the infostealing malware Rhadamanthys, a botnet called Elysium, and the remote access trojan VenomRAT. The authorities say all three "played a key role in international cybercrime." Police seized more than 1,000 servers as part of the operation.
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fromZDNET
11 months ago
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184 million passwords leaked across Facebook, Google, more: What to know about this data breach

fromHackernoon
1 year ago
Privacy technologies

Session Hijacking Is Maturing. What Proactive Measures Can Secure Active Sessions? | HackerNoon

fromZDNET
11 months ago
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184 million passwords leaked across Facebook, Google, more: What to know about this data breach

fromHackernoon
1 year ago
Privacy technologies

Session Hijacking Is Maturing. What Proactive Measures Can Secure Active Sessions? | HackerNoon

fromTheregister
11 months ago

Asia cracks down on infostealers after claiming 216k victims

Interpol’s Operation Secure resulted in the arrest of 32 suspects involved in infostealer malware, marking a collaborative global effort against cybercrime.
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