Tag: login
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Diebstahl von Zugangsdaten auf neuem Höchststand
Der Diebstahl von Zugangsdaten ist für Unternehmen eine der größten Bedrohungen durch Cyberkriminelle das zeigt der aktuelle Threat Report von aDvens, einem europäischen Unternehmen für Cybersicherheit [1]. Rund ein Viertel aller Cyberattacken 2024 basierte auf dieser Strategie. Dabei haben es Infostealer wie LummaC2, RisePro und Stealc auf Login-Daten von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern abgesehen. … First…
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Threat actors downgrade FIDO2 MFA auth in PoisonSeed phishing attack
A PoisonSeed phishing campaign is bypassing FIDO2 security key protections by abusing the cross-device sign-in feature in WebAuthn to trick users into approving login authentication requests from fake company portals. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/threat-actors-downgrade-fido2-mfa-auth-in-poisonseed-phishing-attack/
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Hackers Exploit FIDO MFA With Novel Phishing Technique
PoisonSeed Threat Actor Uses Cross-Device Login Feature and QR Code to Trick Users. Expel researchers have found a novel adversary-in-the-middle phishing technique used by PoisonSeed, a cybercrime group previously tied to large-scale cryptocurrency thefts, to sidestep one of the most secure forms of multifactor authentication – FIDO2 physical keys. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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China-linked hackers target Taiwan chip firms in a coordinated espionage campaign
Tags: access, ai, attack, china, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, detection, email, espionage, exploit, finance, framework, government, group, hacker, intelligence, international, login, monitoring, network, phishing, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, warfareInvestment banks in the crosshairs: A second group, UNK_DropPitch, targeted the financial ecosystem surrounding Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. This group conducted phishing campaigns against investment banks, focusing on individuals specializing in Taiwanese semiconductor analysis. The phishing emails purported to come from fictitious financial firms seeking collaboration opportunities.The third group, UNK_SparkyCarp, focused on credential harvesting through sophisticated…
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The 10 most common IT security mistakes
Tags: access, attack, backup, best-practice, bsi, business, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, data, detection, group, incident response, infrastructure, Internet, login, mfa, microsoft, monitoring, network, office, password, ransomware, risk, security-incident, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vpn2. Gateway: Weak passwords: The problem: Weak passwords repeatedly make it easier for cybercriminals to gain access to a company network. A domain administrator password with six characters or a local administrator password with only two characters is no obstacle for perpetrators. It is more than clear that this issue is often neglected in practice,…
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Cyberattacks on User Logins Jump 156%, Fueled by Infostealers and Phishing Toolkits
Identity-driven assaults have increased by a shocking 156% between 2023 and 2025, making up 59% of all confirmed threat instances in Q1 2025, according to data conducted by eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU). This dramatic shift from traditional asset-focused exploits to sophisticated identity-centric campaigns underscores a fundamental change in adversarial tactics. Identity-Based Threats Cybercriminals are…
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Thales Report: Steigende Bot-Angriffe bremsen vermehrt Reiseportale aus
Herkömmliche Abwehrmaßnahmen reichen nicht mehr aus. Reiseunternehmen benötigen einen intelligenteren, mehrschichtigen Ansatz, der Credential-Stuffing-Angriffe blockiert, gefährdete Bereiche wie Logins und Check-outs schützt und den Bots durch kontinuierliche Tests und Bedrohungsüberwachung einen Schritt voraus ist. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/thales-report-steigende-bot-angriffe-bremsen-vermehrt-reiseportale-aus/a41359/
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Rhadamanthys Infostealer Uses ClickFix Technique to Steal Login Credentials
The Rhadamanthys Stealer, a highly modular information-stealing virus that was first discovered in 2022, has made a comeback with a clever and dishonest delivery method called ClickFix Captcha. This is a terrifying development for cybersecurity experts. This technique disguises malicious payloads behind seemingly legitimate CAPTCHA interfaces, tricking users into executing sophisticated malware. Leverages CAPTCHA Disguise…
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Verified, featured, and malicious: RedDirection campaign reveals browser marketplace failures
Browser hijacking and phishing risks: According to their research, the malicious code was embedded in each extension’s background service worker and used browser APIs to monitor tab activity. Captured data, including URLs and unique tracking IDs, was sent to attacker-controlled servers, which in turn provided redirect instructions.The setup enabled several attack scenarios, including redirection to…
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Why your security team feels stuck
Cybersecurity friction usually gets framed as a user problem: password policies that frustrate employees, MFA that slows down logins, or blocked apps that send workers into … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/09/why-cybersecurity-friction/
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NordDragonScan Targets Windows Users to Steal Login Credentials
FortiGuard Labs has discovered a current campaign that targets Microsoft Windows users with the NordDragonScan infostealer, which is a worrying trend for cybersecurity. This high-severity threat leverages a complex infection chain to infiltrate systems, harvest sensitive data, and exfiltrate it to a command-and-control (C2) server for potential use in future attacks. As detailed in the…
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Cyberattacks are changing the game for major sports events
Sports fans and cybercriminals both look forward to major sporting events, but for very different reasons. Fake ticket sites, stolen login details, and DDoS attacks are common … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/08/sport-events-cybercrime/
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Brazilian police arrest IT worker over $100 million cyber theft
Police in Brazil arrested an employee of C&M Software, who allegedly told them he had sold his login credentials to the hackers behind a massive theft via the PIX instant payment system. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/brazil-police-arrest-worker-theft
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Aegis Authenticator: Free, open-source 2FA app for Android
Aegis Authenticator is an open-source 2FA app for Android that helps you manage login codes for your online accounts. The app features strong encryption and the ability to … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/07/aegis-2fa-authenticator-free-open-source-android/
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Betrug zum Prime Day: Deutsche Amazon-Seite für Phishing imitiert
Cyberkriminelle haben das Login-Fenster des Online-Händlers für Datendiebstahl nachgeahmt. Zudem hat Check Point Research rund 1.000 bösartige Domains im Zusammenhang mit Amazon entdeckt. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/betrug-zum-prime-day
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A flaw in Catwatchful spyware exposed logins of +62,000 users
A flaw in Catwatchful spyware exposed logins of 62,000 users, turning the spy tool into a data leak, security researcher Eric Daigle revealed. A flaw in the Catwatchful Android spyware exposed its full user database, leaking email addresses and plaintext passwords of both customers and its admin, TechCrunch first reported. Security researcher Eric Daigle first discovered…
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A flaw in Catwatchful spyware exposed logins of +62,000 users
A flaw in Catwatchful spyware exposed logins of 62,000 users, turning the spy tool into a data leak, security researcher Eric Daigle revealed. A flaw in the Catwatchful Android spyware exposed its full user database, leaking email addresses and plaintext passwords of both customers and its admin, TechCrunch first reported. Security researcher Eric Daigle first discovered…
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Researchers Defeat Content Security Policy Protections via HTML Injection
In a breakthrough that challenges the perceived safety of nonce-based Content Security Policy (CSP), security researchers have demonstrated a practical method to bypass these protections by combining HTML injection, CSS-based nonce leakage, and browser cache manipulation. The Setup: A Realistic XSS Challenge The research centers on a minimal web application featuring a login form and…
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Hardcoded root credentials in Cisco Unified CM trigger max-severity alert
Cisco shares tricks to spot exploitation: Cisco said in the advisory that it hasn’t observed any exploitation in the wild, but it has provided a method for customers to detect compromises. Successful logins via the root account would leave traces in system logs located at ‘/var/log/active/syslog/secure’, it said.The advisory even included an example log snippet…
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Critical Cisco Vulnerability in Unified CM Grants Root Access via Static Credentials
Cisco has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME) that could permit an attacker to login to a susceptible device as the root user, allowing them to gain elevated privileges.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20309, carries a CVSS…
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Citrix warns of login issues after NetScaler auth bypass patch
Citrix warns that patching recently disclosed vulnerabilities that can be exploited to bypass authentication and launch denial-of-service attacks may also break login pages on NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/citrix-warns-of-login-issues-after-netscaler-auth-bypass-patch/
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AI Models Mislead Users on Login URLs
A third of AI-generated login URLs lead to incorrect or dangerous domains, according to Netcraft First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-models-mislead-users-login-urls/
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How cybersecurity leaders can defend against the spur of AI-driven NHI
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, cloud, credentials, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, email, exploit, framework, gartner, governance, group, guide, identity, infrastructure, least-privilege, LLM, login, monitoring, password, phishing, RedTeam, risk, sans, service, software, technology, tool, vulnerabilityVisibility Yageo Group had so many problematic machine identities that information security operations manager Terrick Taylor says he is almost embarrassed to say this, even though the group has now automated the monitoring of both human and non-human identities and has a process for managing identity lifecycles. “Last time I looked at the portal, there…
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Vercel’s v0 AI Tool Weaponized by Cybercriminals to Rapidly Create Fake Login Pages at Scale
Unknown threat actors have been observed weaponizing v0, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool from Vercel, to design fake sign-in pages that impersonate their legitimate counterparts.”This observation signals a new evolution in the weaponization of Generative AI by threat actors who have demonstrated an ability to generate a functional phishing site from simple text prompts,”…
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LLMs are guessing login URLs, and it’s a cybersecurity time bomb
Tags: ai, api, blockchain, cybersecurity, data, github, LLM, login, malicious, monitoring, office, risk, supply-chain, trainingGithub poisoning for AI training: Not all hallucinated URLs were unintentional. In an unrelated research, Netcraft found evidence of attackers deliberately poisoning AI systems by seeding GitHub with malicious code repositories.”Multiple fake GitHub accounts shared a project called Moonshot-Volume-Bot, seeded across accounts with rich bios, profile images, social media accounts and credible coding activity,” researchers…
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PowerShell überwachen so geht’s
Tags: access, cloud, cyberattack, detection, hacker, login, mail, microsoft, monitoring, powershell, tool, windowsWird PowerShell nicht richtig überwacht, ist das Security-Debakel meist nicht weit.Kriminelle Hacker setzen mitunter auf raffinierte Techniken, um sich über ausgedehnte Zeiträume in den Netzwerken von Unternehmen einzunisten und still und heimlich sensible Daten oder Logins abzugreifen. Dabei missbrauchen die Cyberkriminellen in vielen Fällen auch vom jeweiligen Zielunternehmen freigegebene Tools, um sich initial Zugang zu…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: U.S. Gov’t Urges Adoption of Memory-Safe Languages and Warns About Iran Cyber Threat
Tags: access, advisory, ai, api, attack, authentication, best-practice, cisa, computer, computing, crypto, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, encryption, exploit, finance, framework, google, governance, government, group, hacker, healthcare, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, Internet, iran, login, mfa, military, mitigation, mitre, network, nist, passkey, password, programming, ransomware, risk, rust, service, software, strategy, tactics, technology, terrorism, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, warfareCheck out the U.S. government’s latest call for developers to use memory-safe programming languages, as well as its warning for cybersecurity teams regarding cyber risk from hackers tied to Iran. Plus, get the latest on ransomware trends, the quantum computing cyber threat and more! Dive into five things that are top of mind for the…
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Don’t trust that email: It could be from a hacker using your printer to scam you
Tags: authentication, control, credentials, data, defense, dkim, dmarc, email, endpoint, exploit, framework, hacker, infrastructure, iot, login, mail, microsoft, monitoring, network, phishing, powershell, qr, risk, scam, tactics, tool, vulnerability, zero-daytenantname.mail.protection.outlook.com, and companies’ internal email address formats can be trivial to figure out or easy to scrape from public sources or social media. Once an attacker has the domain and a valid email address, they are able to send emails that appear to come from inside the organization.In the campaign observed by Varonis’ forensics experts,…