Hackers reportedly compromised a Microsoft Corp. support agent’s credentials, allowing them to gain unauthorized access to the company’s various web-based email services, including Outlook, MSN and Hotmail, for at least three months in 2019. This breach exposed not only information pertaining to certain customers’ email accounts, but also in some cases the content of the…
Whether or not a company’s workers are truly its weakest link is an arguable point, but a recent study found that a determination can be made whether or not a particular person may be targeted with a fraudulent email. Factors like whether or not a person’s login credentials for other websites had been compromised due…
Malicious actors are using the massive supply of previously stolen login credentials to help brute force their way into high-profile cloud-based business systems that cannot easily use two-factor authentication for security. Proofpoint researchers found the availability of these tools has powered a massive increase in the number of cloud attacks taking place which in turn…
The Southeast Asian threat group Bitter that has been active since 2015 has expanded its activities and has now targeted Pakistani and Saudi Arabia with three variants of the AstraDownloader to inject the RAT BitterRAT into various organizations. The attacks on Saudi Arabia and Pakistan began in September and continued into early 2019, according to…
The German firm Heise Security has found 2.2 billion email addresses and associated passwords, which it is labeling Collection 2-5, available for free on the web. These credentials were found in data caches similar to the Collection 1 data dump that was exposed in mid-January and found to contain 773 million unique emails amid 600GB…
A Polish cybersecurity researcher has released an automated tool designed for pen testers that has the ability intercept data in real-time and even swipe 2FA credentials, a move that has some in the industry concerned that it could be used for nefarious purposes. Piotr Duszyński last week released the open-source tool, named Modlishka which means…
A group email recently sent by DePaul University reportedly exposed the names and email addresses of 656 employees who had completed the school’s wellness program. According to Crain’s Chicago Business, the Chicago-based private university sent congratulatory emails to faculty members last Dec. 14, but neglected to use the “blind copy” feature. Consequently, recipients’ names and…
The FBI is reportedly investigating several incidents where someone impersonating Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary is sending text messages to Republican lawmakers. The Wall Street Journal reported the texts purportedly came from Press Secretary Alyssa Farah and asked the whereabouts of certain GOP members. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., has received several of the messages…
Amnesty International reported on two phishing attacks it recently endured, possibly carried out by the same attacker (or attackers), on human rights defenders (HRD) like itself, and also journalists, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. “What makes these campaigns especially troubling is the lengths to which they go to subvert the digital security…
In separate incidents, two U.S. health care facilities have publicly disclosed data breaches that resulted from the unauthorized access of an employee’s email. Yesterday, the University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital (ECH) acknowledged that an unauthorized individual remotely accessed an employee’s email account on Oct. 9. This account contained the personal information of…
