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1 year, 10 months ago
Malvertising Campaign Builds a Phish for Lowe's Employees
Retail employees are being duped into divulging their credentials by typosquatting malvertisements.
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Stolen credentials can enable account takeover and lateral movement; phishing-resistant MFA, password managers, and rapid revocation reduce the risk.
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Credentials are the data used to verify a user's identity to a system, commonly including usernames, passwords, security tokens, or biometric identifiers. They serve as gatekeepers for access to accounts, applications, and sensitive information. Attackers target credentials to impersonate users, escalate privileges, or gain unauthorized system access.
Compromise of credentials can occur through phishing, credential stuffing, or theft from insecure storage. Effective defenses include enforcing strong, unique passwords, implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA), and securely storing credentials using hashing or encryption. Monitoring for unusual login patterns and promptly revoking compromised credentials are also critical to limit attacker impact.
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The Register
1 year, 10 months ago
Cisco's Smart Licensing Utility flaws suggest it's pretty dumb on security
Two critical holes including hardcoded admin credential If you're running Cisco's supposedly Smart Licensing Utility, there are two flaws you ought to patch right now.…
The Hacker News
1 year, 10 months ago
Cisco Fixes Two Critical Flaws in Smart Licensing Utility to Prevent Remote Attacks
Cisco has released security updates for two critical security flaws impacting its Smart Licensing Utility that could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to elevate their privileges or access sensitive information
Bleeping Computer
1 year, 10 months ago
Hackers inject malicious JS in Cisco store to steal credit cards, credentials
Cisco's site for selling company-themed merchandise is currently offline and under maintenance due to hackers compromising it with JavaScript code that steals sensitive customer details provided at checkout. [...]
The Register
1 year, 10 months ago
Cicada ransomware may be a BlackCat/ALPHV rebrand and upgrade
Researchers find many similarities, and nasty new customizations such as embedded compromised user credentials The Cicada3301 ransomware, which has claimed at least 20 victims since it was spotted in June, shares "striking similarities" with the notorious BlackCat ransomware, according to security researchers at Israeli outfit endpoint security outfit Morphisec.…