Hackers take over 1.1 million accounts by trying reused passwords

The New York State Office of the Attorney General has warned 17 companies that roughly 1.1 million customers have had their user accounts compromised in credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing is the automated injection of stolen username and password pairs in to website login forms, in...

1.1M Compromised Accounts Found at 17 Major Companies

There have been more than 1.1 million online accounts compromised in a series of credential-stuffing attacks against 17 different companies, according to a New York State investigation. Credential-stuffing attacks, such as last year’s attack on Spotify, use automated scripts to try high volumes o...

SolarWinds Attackers Spotted Using New Tactics, Malware

One year after the notorious and far-reaching SolarWinds supply-chain attacks, its orchestrators are on the offensive again. Researchers said they’ve seen the threat group – which Microsoft refers to as “Nobelium” and which is linked to Russia’s spy agency – compromising global business and...

Fighting Video Piracy Is Strengthened by Collaboration

Here’s what I know: My personal email has been “pwned” or stolen at least 18 times. Here’s what I don’t know: if any of the times I have been unable to log in to one of my OTT subscription services was due to my kids sharing our credentials or because of an account takeover — that kill chain that...

Iran's Lyceum Hackers Target Telecoms, ISPs in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Africa

A state-sponsored threat actor allegedly affiliated with Iran has been linked to a series of targeted attacks aimed at internet service providers ISPs and telecommunication operators in Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia, as well as a ministry of foreign affairs MFA in Africa, new finding...

Zebra2104 Initial Access Broker Supports Rival Malware Gangs, APTs

Three separate threat groups are all using a common initial access broker IAB to enable their cyberattacks, according to researchers – a finding that has revealed a tangled web of related attack infrastructure underpinning disparate and in some cases rival malware campaigns. The BlackBerry Resear...

Protect your business from password sprays with Microsoft DART recommendations

Over the past year, the Microsoft Detection and Response Team DART, along with Microsoft’s threat intelligence teams, have observed an uptick in the use of password sprays as an attack vector. This threat is a moving target with techniques and tools always changing, and Microsoft continues to fin...

SolarWinds APT Targets Tech Resellers in Latest Supply-Chain Cyberattacks

The SolarWinds attackers – an advanced persistent threat APT known as Nobelium – have started a new wave of supply-chain intrusions, this time using the technology reseller/service provider community to attack their targets. The activity has affected victims in North America and Europe thus far,...

Credential Stuffing Attack: ❗️ Definition and Protection

Introducing A new SecureAuth study discovered that 53% of shoppers reuse similar secret phrase for various accounts. When login credentials are presented to programmers, even once, they can be utilized to get to a large number of records, regardless of whether it is an email account, medical...

Verizon’s Visible Wireless Carrier Confirms Credential-Stuffing Attack

On Wednesday, Verizon’s Visible – an all-digital, uber-cheap wireless carrier – confirmed what customers have been complaining about on Reddit and Twitter all week: They lost control of their accounts; had their passwords and shipping addresses changed; and some got stuck with bills for pricey ne...

BruteLoops - Protocol Agnostic Online Password Guessing API

A dead simple library providing the foundational logic for efficient password brute force attacks against authentication interfaces. See various Wiki sections for more information. A "modular" example is included with the library that demonstrates how to use this package. It's fully functional an...

Innovative Proxy Phantom ATO Fraud Ring Haunts eCommerce Accounts

A sophisticated fraud ring, dubbed Proxy Phantom, has pushed the boundaries of credential-stuffing attacks with a dynamic account takeover ATO technique that was flooding eCommerce merchants in the third quarter. Researchers at Sift uncovered the group, which is innovating in the realm of...

How to Prevent Account Takeovers in 2021

Data breaches and hacking put internet users at risk of account takeover, if cybercriminals successfully gain access to valid login credentials. There are reckoned to be in excess of 8.4 million discrete passwords currently circulating online, more than 3.5 billion of which are tied to active...

A2: Broken Authentication ❗️ — Top 10 OWASP 2017

A2: Broken Authentication ❗️ — Top 10 OWASP 2017 Introduction When issues arise within the authentication of a program, there are most likely a wide range of dire implications. An example we can discuss is when there is a weak password policy which allows for easily guessable or brute forceable...

Human Fraud: Detecting Them Before They Detect You

This is Part II of a two-part blog series taking readers inside the criminal enterprise that is account-takeover fraud. For part I, please click here. In my last blog, we focused on the initial phases of the account-takeover ATO kill chain – recon, weaponization and delivery – and how attackers...

Brace yourselves: Holiday shopping season is coming

The E-commerce market has seen tremendous revenue growth during the pandemic. Along with that good news for E-business, there has been an increase in fraudulent activities online that may cost retailers over $20 billion in losses by the end of 2021. According to eMarketer, worldwide retail...

Broken User Authentication☝️ — What you need to know

Broken User Authentication☝️ — What you need to know Introduction API2:Broken User Authentication What is Broken User Authentication? Broken User Authentication can manifest in several issues. Whenever we come across an API endpoint that handles authentication we need to be extra careful since...

Attackers Breach Microsoft Customer Service Accounts

The same group behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attacks has been targeting Microsoft’s corporate networks to gain access to specific organizations — primarily, U.S.-based IT and government organizations. Microsoft officially announced the attacks after Reuters obtained an email sent to customer...

Pandemic-Bored Attackers Pummeled Gaming Industry

Attacks on the gaming industry skyrocketed during the year of the pandemic, with attacks on web applications shooting up 340 percent in 2020. According to Akamai Technologies’ latest State of the Internet and Security report, Gaming in a Pandemic PDF, cyberattack traffic targeting the video game...

Using Breached Password Detection Services to Prevent Cyberattack

Bolstering password policies in your organization is an important part of a robust cybersecurity strategy. Cybercriminals are using compromised accounts as one of their favorite tactics to infiltrate business-critical environments; as we've seen in recent news, these attacks can be dangerous and...