Tag: credentials
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Amazon Q Developer extension vulnerability could have exposed cloud credentials
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/amazon-q-developer-extension-vulnerability-could-expose-cloud-credentials
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Five nines and the SaaSpocalypse: Why credential security survives the AI reset
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/perspective/five-nines-and-the-saaspocalypse-why-credential-security-survives-the-ai-reset
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Ukraine Says Russian Intelligence Used Fake Support Texts to Steal Messaging Credentials
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said it, together with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), uncovered a long-running campaign orchestrated by Russian intelligence services to break into the messaging accounts of government officials, military personnel, politicians, and activists in Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S.The systematic cyber attacks aimed at stealing sensitive First seen…
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Amazon Q Developer Vulnerability Allows Code Execution via Malicious Repositories
A critical security flaw discovered in the Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) left developers vulnerable to arbitrary code execution and cloud credential theft. Tracked as CVE-2026-12957 and CVE-2026-12958, these high-severity vulnerabilities highlight significant risks in how AI coding assistants manage trust boundaries. The root cause of this vulnerability lies in…
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Weak Access Controls Leave Enterprise Networks at Risk
Barracuda researchers found that weak credentials and exposed remote services continue to fuel malware, botnet, and credential attacks. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/weak-access-controls-leave-enterprise-networks-at-risk/
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Weak Access Controls Leave Enterprise Networks at Risk
Barracuda researchers found that weak credentials and exposed remote services continue to fuel malware, botnet, and credential attacks. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/weak-access-controls-leave-enterprise-networks-at-risk/
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Water and Wastewater Systems Become Strategic Targets for Russia, China, and Iran
Water and wastewater systems have become strategic gray”‘zone targets for Russia, China, and Iran, driven by chronic underinvestment and weak operational”‘technology (OT) defenses that make these utilities easy to probe and exploit. Internet”‘facing human”‘machine interfaces (HMIs), exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs), default credentials, and poor IT/OT segmentation create low”‘cost access paths whose impact is disproportionately…
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Mirage2FA phishing kit uses HTML smuggling to steal Microsoft 365 credentials
Mirage2FA, a phishing kit that combines short-lived HTML smuggling with obfuscated JavaScript loaders to deliver fake Microsoft 365 login pages and steal credentials during … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/26/mirage2fa-phishing-kit-microsoft-365-html-smuggling/
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Kitana Shows How AI Is Reshaping Adversarythe-Middle Fraud
Kitana combines AI-assisted development with adversary-in-the-middle attacks to steal credentials and payment information in real time. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/kitana-shows-how-ai-is-reshaping-adversary-in-the-middle-fraud/
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FortiBleed Turns FortiGate Access Into Enterprise Credential Theft
Arctic Wolf found FortiBleed uses stolen FortiGate credentials to gain enterprise access. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/fortibleed-turns-fortigate-access-into-enterprise-credential-theft/
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Operation Endgame Disrupts StealC Malware Infrastructure
Operation Endgame disrupted StealC infrastructure and seized millions of stolen credentials through a coordinated public-private effort. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/operation-endgame-disrupts-stealc-malware-infrastructure/
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Europol, Microsoft Hit Malware Network Behind 27M Stolen Logins, 140,000 Infected Computers
Europol and Microsoft disrupted malware infrastructure linked to 27 million stolen login credentials and 140,000 infected computers in a global cybercrime network. The post Europol, Microsoft Hit Malware Network Behind 27M Stolen Logins, 140,000 Infected Computers appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-europol-microsoft-malware-takedown-emea-eu/
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Hackers Abuse Cloudflare-Hosted AWS Phishing Domains to Steal Console Logins
A concise but sophisticated phishing campaign that targeted AWS console users by abusing Cloudflare-hosted domains to deliver adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) credential theft. Each domain served an almost identical clone of the AWS console sign-in page and implemented a server-driven flow that dynamically branched into email, SMS, or authenticator-app MFA challenges, enabling real-time capture of second factors.…
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FortiBleed campaign steals 110M credentials from FortiGate targets
Tags: credentialsFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/fortibleed-campaign-steals-110m-credentials-from-fortigate-targets
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Operation Endgame Disrupts StealC, Amadey and SocGholish Malware Networks
Operation Endgame disrupts StealC malware infrastructure, seizing millions of stolen credentials and targeting servers used in global cybercrime campaigns. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/operation-endgame-stealc-amadey-socgholish-malware/
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Nathan Austad Pleads Guilty in DraftKings Hacking Scheme, Gets 18 Months
Third DraftKings hacker gets 18 months in prison for a 2022 credential-stuffing attack that compromised 1,600 accounts and stole $600,000. Nathan Austad, the third person sentenced over the 2022 DraftKings credential-stuffing attack, received 18 months in prison. The group used usernames and passwords stolen from other breaches to access about 1,600 accounts and steal roughly…
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Amadey and StealC Malware Network Disrupted, 27M Stolen Credentials Recovered
Tags: attack, breach, credentials, cybercrime, finance, fraud, infrastructure, law, malware, microsoft, network, ransomwareA coordinated law enforcement operation, in partnership with private sector companies, including Bitdefender, Bitsight, ESET, and Microsoft, has resulted in the takedown of criminal infrastructure powering Amadey and StealC.”The main common goal was to disrupt the ‘assembly lines’ cybercriminals use to launch ransomware, financial fraud, and attacks on critical infrastructure,” Europol said in First seen…
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Researchers Trick AI Browsers Into Leaking Credentials
LayerX tricked AI browsers including ChatGPT Atlas and Comet into bypassing their guardrails First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/bioshocking-ai-browser-prompt/
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Inside Fortibleed Reverse-Engineering einer globalen Fortigate-Credential-Fabric
Arctic Wolf hat einen sichergestellten Cyberstrike-Harvester-Binary-Code mittels Reverse-Engineering analysiert und dessen Rolle innerhalb des umfassenderen Fortibleed-Angriffsablaufs untersucht. Die Analyse liefert neue Einblicke, wie Angreifer kompromittierte Fortigate-Zugänge in eine wiederholbar einsetzbare ‘Credential Factory” überführen, um daraus weitere Zugangsdaten, interne Zugriffswege und potenzielle Möglichkeiten zur Datenexfiltration abzuleiten. Fortibleed ist eine groß angelegte Kampagne zur Kompromittierung von Zugangsdaten,…
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KDDI Breach Affects Six Japanese ISPs, Exposes 14.2 Email Credentials
Customers of the affected Japanese email services are “strongly advised” to change their email passwords First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/kddi-breach-japanese-telcos/
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FortiBleed: The Broker Who Turned 73,000 Firewalls Into a Product Catalog
FortiBleed exposed valid credentials for 73,000+ Fortinet firewalls, revealing a large-scale access-brokering operation targeting organizations worldwide. In mid-June 2026, researcher Volodymyr >>Bob<< Diachenko found a live, exposed server containing working login credentials for tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls, a data leak code-named FortiBleed. The headline number, valid remote-access logins for 73,932 devices across 21,632…
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Underground services offer targeted credential searches from infostealer data
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Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches
It’s unclear why Klue had not revoked the credential after the limited pilot, which hackers then used to breach a system holding keys for accessing customers’ data. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/klue-says-hackers-stole-credential-from-2022-that-led-to-customer-data-breaches/
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FortiBleed Is ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ of Edge Device Targeting
Threat Actor Harvesting Other Credentials; Experts See Many More Scans for SSL-VPNs. Discovery of the Fortinet credential-harvesting campaign tracked as FortiBleed appears to be the tip of the iceberg of edge device targeting, with honeypot telemetry revealing VPN and edge devices from Check Point, Cisco, Ivanti/Pulse, Palo Alto, OpenVPN and SonicWall also being top targets.…
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FortiBleed Targeted FortiGate Firewalls in 110 Million-Credential Harvesting Operation
A Russian-speaking initial access broker (IAB) driven by financial gain is assessed to be behind a large-scale credential-harvesting operation known as FortiBleed that has targeted over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls globally.The campaign, active since February 2026, involves collecting credential lists, searching for exposed services, brute-forcing accessible systems, and deploying bespoke First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to…
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Algerian man charged with running two cybercrime marketplaces
Abdellah Belmili allegedly ran two black-market websites selling stolen financial credentials and custom-built phishing kits targeting major American banks, federal prosecutors say. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/algerian-man-charged-cybercrime-marketplaces/
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What the Fortibleed campaign means for organizations running FortiGate firewalls
A massive credential-harvesting campaign targeting FortiGate firewalls has exposed thousands of organizations to potential network compromise, and a trove of attacker tools, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/23/fortibleed-investigation-remediation/
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FortiBleed Attackers Turn Firewalls Into Credential Stealers as Heists Persist
The threat actors engineered a Golang-based sniffer to target 430,000 FortiGate firewalls and identify 110 million credentials in the ongoing global campaign. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/fortibleed-attackers-firewalls-credentials-stealers