Tag: login
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The best-funded companies open the most phishing attachments
An employee gets an email dressed as a password reset. She clicks the link, types her credentials into a page built to copy her company’s login screen, and moves on with … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/24/phishing-simulation-benchmark-report/
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Pixelgenaue Fälschungen täuschen Login-Benachrichtigungen von X vor
Ein neuer X-Phishing-Scam kopiert echte Login-Benachrichtigungen bis ins letzte Pixel, um Konten zu kapern und Passwörter zu stehlen. Gekaperte Konten werden für Krypto-Betrug und Phishing genutzt. Die Phishing-E-Mails warnen die Empfänger vor einem Login ‘von einem neuen Gerät” an einem Ort, an dem sie sich noch nie aufgehalten haben. Die E-Mails enthalten das X-Logo, die…
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Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access
Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM) products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild.The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an authentication bypass affecting the Check Point SmartConsole login process that allows an First seen…
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Hackers Clone Microsoft Login Portals to Capture Credentials and Session Tokens in Real Time
An active adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing campaign that clones Microsoft authentication pages to intercept credentials, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) codes, and session tokens in real time. Rather than relying on simple password harvesting, this technique hijacks authenticated user sessions directly. Detailed by Infoblox Threat Intel researchers Darby Wise and Nick Sundvall, the widespread campaign has targeted universities,…
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Passwort”‘Spray”‘Kampagne – Hacker starten 81 Millionen Login-Versuche gegen Microsoft 365
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/passwort-spraying-81-mio-angriffe-microsoft-365-rocp-mfa-a-429ec8a48b72ec905e4e2cfb85f19fb1/
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New ClickLock macOS malware traps users into revealing login password
A new macOS information-stealing malware dubbed ClickLock terminates all visible processes to force users into entering their system login password. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-clicklock-macos-malware-traps-users-into-revealing-login-password/
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New ClickLock macOS Stealer Kills Apps Every 210ms Until Victims Type Their Password
ClickLock Stealer, a new macOS infostealer, answers a victim’s refusal by killing their apps on a loop until they hand over the login password. It arrives as a command pasted into Terminal, asks for the password behind a fake system dialog, and when the victim cancels, installs two LaunchAgents and quietly exits.At the next login,…
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Daxin Resurfaces in Taiwan Alongside Stupig Pre-Login SYSTEM Backdoor
An advanced malware previously attributed to a China-linked threat actor has resurfaced after more than four years within a Taiwan manufacturing firm, along with a previously unreported backdoor dubbed Stupig.Daxin (“srt64.sys”), as the kernel-mode rootkit is referred to, was first documented by Broadcom-owned Symantec in March 2022, with evidence indicating its use in targeted attacks…
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Smashing Security podcast #476: Remote-control rickshaws and rogue book marketers
An app has appeared in India that lets anyone with a smartphone stop a passing e-rickshaw dead in its tracks – no login, no passwords, no permissions needed. First seen on grahamcluley.com Jump to article: grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-476/
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Google adds FIDO2 keys and phone passkeys to Windows login via GCPW
Google has started rolling out FIDO2-compliant physical security key support as a second factor for authentication in Google Credential Provider for Windows (GCPW) to all … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/14/security-key-windows-login-google-workspace/
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CrashStealer macOS Malware Uses Notarized Dropper to Pass Gatekeeper Checks
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called CrashStealer that’s capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised systems.Unlike other information stealers that are built on AppleScript droppers or Objective-C-based wrappers, CrashStealer is implemented in native C++, according to Jamf Threat Labs.”It validates the victim’s login password locally before First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Passwortlos wird MFA noch sicherer
Multifaktor-Authentifizierung (MFA) hat sich sowohl in Unternehmen als auch bei Privatanwendern als weitverbreitetes und etabliertes Standardverfahren zur Identitätsprüfung beim Login etabliert. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/passwortlos-wird-mfa-noch-sicherer
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RedWing MaaS Packages Android Bank Fraud as a Telegram Rental Service
A new Android malware operation called RedWing is being rented out on Telegram as a ready-made bank-fraud service. It lets even low-skill criminals take over a victim’s phone, steal their banking logins, and capture the one-time codes that protect their accounts.Zimperium’s zLabs, which found the operation, says it looks like a new variant of Oblivion,…
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DEBULL Tooling Abuses Microsoft Device-Code Flow to Target M365 Accounts
A Microsoft 365 device code phishing campaign has been observed leveraging collaboration-themed lures to take control of victim accounts between the last week of June 2026 and into early July, per findings from ZeroBEC.”The campaign did not depend on a fake Microsoft password page. It used a malicious collaboration-style lure to push users into the…
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Hidden Tenda Router Backdoor Grants Admin Access, No Patch Available
CERT/CC warns an unpatched backdoor in several Tenda routers lets attackers bypass login and gain full admin access with a hidden password. CERT/CC published an alert documenting an undocumented authentication backdoor in multiple Tenda firmware versions, tracked as CVE-2026-11405. The flaw gives anyone who knows the right password full administrative access to the device’s web…
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PamStealer Uses Fake Maccy Sites and PAM Checks to Steal Mac Login Passwords
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called PamStealer that employs a series of clever tricks to infect systems and siphon sensitive data.The stealer, discovered by Jamf Threat Labs, is distributed as a compiled AppleScript (.scpt) file impersonating Maccy, a legitimate open-source clipboard manager. It has been codenamed PamStealer owing to its ability…
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Non-interactive SSH attacks dominate after login
Anyone who runs a server with SSH exposed to the internet sees the same pattern in the logs. A steady stream of automated scanners tries to log in, hour after hour, from … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/03/research-non-interactive-ssh-attacks/
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LSHIY Password Spray Attack Hits Microsoft 365 Accounts With 81 Million Login Attempts
A large-scale password spray campaign linked to the infrastructure provider LSHIY LLC has targeted Microsoft 365 environments, resulting in over 81 million login attempts. This campaign has led to at least 78 confirmed account compromises across 64 organizations between June 12 and June 26, 2026. According to researchers from Huntress, the activity primarily originates from…
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Hackers target Microsoft 365 accounts with 81 million login attempts
An aggressive password-spraying campaign targeting Microsoft 365 environments generated more than 81 million login attempts over a two-week period. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-target-microsoft-365-accounts-with-81-million-login-attempts/
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Ousaban Banking Trojan Targets Iberian Bank Users with Fake PDF Lures
A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs identified the campaign in May 2026.It opens with a phishing PDF disguised as a corrupted file, checks that the visitor is really in Spain or Portugal, and hides its real payload inside an image.The goal…
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Azure CLI Targeted in LSHIY Password Spray Campaign Across 64 Orgs
81 Million Login Attempts, 78 Compromised Accounts: The LSHIY Password Spray Hitting Azure CLI Huntress researchers have been tracking a massive automated password spray campaign against Microsoft Azure CLI environments since June 12, 2026. A password spray attack is when attackers try a small number of common passwords across many accounts instead of many passwords…
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New BioShocking Attack Tricks AI Browsers Into Leaking User Credentials
Convince an AI browser that it is playing a game, and it can hand over your login details. That is the finding behind BioShocking, a technique from security firm LayerX that tricked six AI browsers and assistants into copying a user’s credentials and sending them to an attacker.The targets included OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity’s Comet,…
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New BioShocking Attack Tricks AI Browsers Into Leaking User Credentials
Convince an AI browser that it is playing a game, and it can hand over your login details. That is the finding behind BioShocking, a technique from security firm LayerX that tricked six AI browsers and assistants into copying a user’s credentials and sending them to an attacker.The targets included OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity’s Comet,…
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Data breach exposes up to 14.2 million email logins at six ISPs
Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI Corporation disclosed a data breach where threat actors gained access to one of its email systems used by five other internet service providers (ISPs) in the country. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-breach-exposes-up-to-142-million-email-logins-at-six-isps/
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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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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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AI-Powered Phishing Attacks Surge 1,380% as Criminal Platforms Render MFA Obsolete
Imagine completing a two-factor authentication check on a real Microsoft login page and still handing a criminal full access to your email account. That is not a hypothetical. According to new research published this week by cybersecurity company Huntress, it happened across hundreds of organisations in the first four months of 2026 and the victims…
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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…