Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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Crim used infostealer to get cloud credentials If you don't say "yes way" to MFA, the consequences can be disastrous. Sensitive data belonging to about 50 global enterprises is listed for sale – and, in some cases, has already been sold – on the dark web following a major infostealer campaign, with apparent victims including American utility engineering firm Pickett and Associates; Japan's homebuilding giant Sekisui House; and Spain's largest airline Iberia.…

Imagine this: Sarah from accounting gets what looks like a routine password reset email from your organization’s cloud provider. She clicks the link, types in her credentials, and goes back to her spreadsheet. But unknown to her, she’s just made a big mistake. Sarah just accidentally handed over her login details to cybercriminals who are laughing all the way to their dark web

Atroposia is a newly discovered modular RAT that uses encrypted channels and advanced theft capabilities to target credentials and crypto wallets

Cybercriminals are auctioning off live email credentials, giving other criminals access to sensitive systems, confidential intelligence, and, potentially, a higher success rate than ever.

Government and police employee credentials sold at bargain-basement prices on underground forums Criminals are selling access to FBI and other law enforcement and government email accounts to other criminals via dark web marketplaces for as little as $40.…

A Dark Web antihero has been stealing and then reselling credentials from unsavory online characters. Their motives are questionable, but the schadenfreude is irresistible.

Attackers are leveraging the benefits of new technology and the availability of commodity tools, credentials, and other resources to develop sophisticated attacks more quickly than ever, putting defenders on their heels.

Law enforcement discovered admin credentials on the suspect's computer for an online repository hosted on the Dark Web that stored source code for multiple versions of the LockBit builder.

Michigan man indicted for dark web credential fraud, purchased 2,500 logins from Genesis Market

Cyble has found thousands of security vendors' credentials on the dark web, likely pulled from infostealer logs

A new hacking group has leaked the configuration files, IP addresses, and VPN credentials for over 15,000 FortiGate devices for free on the dark web, exposing a great deal of sensitive technical information to other cybercriminals. [...]

A 26-year-old man in Ontario, Canada has been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting more than 160 companies that used the cloud data service Snowflake. On October 30, Canadian authorities arrested Alexander Moucka, a.k.a. Connor Riley Moucka of Kitchener, Ontario, on a provisional arrest warrant from the United States. Bloomberg first reported Moucka's alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday. At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many large companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). After scouring darknet markets for stolen Snowflake account credentials, the hackers began raiding the data storage repositories used by some of the world’s largest corporations.

Millions of Customers Will Also Be Offered Monitoring of Genetic Data on Dark WebGenetics testing firm 23andMe will offer cash payments to millions of individuals whose sensitive data was compromised in a 2023 credential stuffing incident. Under the proposed $30 million lawsuit settlement, affected customers will also be offered dark web monitoring of their genetic data.

A 27-year-old Russian national has been sentenced to over three years in prison for peddling financial information, login credentials, and other personally identifying information (PII) on a now-defunct dark web marketplace called Slilpp

He’ll also have to pay back $1.2 million from fraudulent transactions he facilitated A Russian national is taking a trip to prison in the US after being found guilty of peddling stolen credentials on a popular dark web marketplace.…

According to eSentire, around 400 GenAI account logins are sold daily on the dark web, including credentials for GPT, Quillbot, Notion and Replit

Court Filing: Threat Actor Stole Admin Credentials From IT Service Desk ContractorMedibank's lack of MFA on its global VPN allowed a hacker to use credentials stolen from an IT services desk contractor to access the private health insurer's IT systems in 2022, leading to a dark web data leak affecting 9.7 million individuals, Australian regulators said in court documents.

Cybercriminals Netting Over 50 Credentials Per Infected Device, Kaspersky SaysThe value of corporate credentials in the cybercrime market contributed to a 643% increase in data theft attacks over the past three years, cybersecurity company Kaspersky says. Malicious access brokers stole close to 400 million logins and passwords for numerous websites in the past year.

Singaporean researchers note rising presence of ChatGPT creds in Infostealer malware logs Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims to have found some 225,000 stealer logs containing login details for the service last year.…