Microsoft sued for alleged misuse of stolen Dark Web credentials

By Waqas Hold Security LLC, a cybersecurity company, has sued Microsoft for misusing over 360 million compromised credentials collected from the Dark Web. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft sued for alleged misuse of stolen Dark Web credentials...

Zyxel Fixes 0day in Network Storage Devices

Patch comes amid active exploitation by ransomware gangs Networking hardware vendor Zyxel today released an update to fix a critical flaw in many of its network attached storage NAS devices that can be used to remotely commandeer them. The patch comes 12 days after KrebsOnSecurity alerted the...

Retailer Orvis.com Leaked Hundreds of Internal Passwords on Pastebin

Orvis, a Vermont-based retailer that specializes in high-end fly fishing equipment and other sporting goods, leaked hundreds of internal passwords on Pastebin.com for several weeks last month, exposing credentials the company used to manage everything from firewalls and routers to administrator...

Party Like a Russian, Carder’s Edition

"It takes a certain kind of man with a certain reputation To alleviate the cash from a whole entire nation…" KrebsOnSecurity has seen some creative yet truly bizarre ads for dodgy services in the cybercrime underground, but the following animated advertisement for a popular credit card fraud shop...

773M Password ‘Megabreach’ is Years Old

My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. A story in The Guardian breathlessl...