Tag: password
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Scattered Spider’s ‘retirement’ announcement: genuine exit or elaborate smokescreen?
Tags: ai, breach, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, disinformation, google, group, hacking, infrastructure, international, law, mandiant, password, ransomware, tactics, threatLaw enforcement pressure: real but limited impact: The letter explicitly acknowledged the mounting international pressure that supposedly drove their decision.”We want to share a thought for the eight people that have been raided or arrested in relations to these campaigns, Scattered Spider and/or ShinyHunters groups since beginning on April 2024 and thereafter 2025, and especially…
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Scattered Spider’s ‘retirement’ announcement: genuine exit or elaborate smokescreen?
Tags: ai, breach, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, disinformation, google, group, hacking, infrastructure, international, law, mandiant, password, ransomware, tactics, threatLaw enforcement pressure: real but limited impact: The letter explicitly acknowledged the mounting international pressure that supposedly drove their decision.”We want to share a thought for the eight people that have been raided or arrested in relations to these campaigns, Scattered Spider and/or ShinyHunters groups since beginning on April 2024 and thereafter 2025, and especially…
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FlowiseAI Password Reset Token Vulnerability Enables Account Takeover
Acritical vulnerabilityin FlowiseAI has been discovered that allows attackers to take over user accounts with minimal effort. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-58434, affects both cloud-hosted and self-hosted FlowiseAI deployments, posing significant risks to organizations using this AI workflow automation platform. CVE Number Affected Product Vulnerability Type CVSS 3.1 Score CVE-2025-58434 FlowiseAI (npm package flowise) Unauthenticated Password…
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Password1: how scammers exploit variations of your logins
From avoiding recycling a password, even part of it, to two-step verification, steps to closing an open door for hackersThe first you know about it is when you find out someone has accessed one of your accounts. You’ve been careful with your details so you can’t work out what has gone wrong, but you have…
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Kennwörter sicher speichern und teilen – Passwords-App: Vollwertiger Passwort-Manager für Nextcloud
Tags: passwordFirst seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/passwords-app-vollwertiger-passwort-manager-fuer-nextcloud-a-9ff55daae031960d5895caa8074634a4/
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Palo Alto Exposes Passwords in Plain Text
Palo Alto’s CVE-2025-4235 leaks service passwords, demanding urgent patching and resets. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/palo-alto-exposes-passwords-in-plain-text-cve-2025-4235/
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Palo Alto Exposes Passwords in Plain Text CVE-2025-4235
Palo Alto’s CVE-2025-4235 leaks service passwords, demanding urgent patching and resets. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/palo-alto-exposes-passwords-in-plain-text-cve-2025-4235/
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Microsoft under fire: Senator demands FTC investigation into ‘arsonist selling firefighting services’
Tags: access, attack, authentication, breach, business, cio, ciso, computer, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, email, encryption, finance, government, hacker, mfa, microsoft, network, password, ransomware, service, software, technology, threat, updateThe technical reality behind the failures: Security experts have long criticized Microsoft’s reliance on outdated encryption standards. “RC4 should have been retired long ago, yet it still lurks in Active Directory and continues to enable attacks like Kerberoasting,” Gogia noted.Microsoft’s justification centered on backward compatibility concerns. “Microsoft’s line has been that switching it off overnight…
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UK Rail Operator LNER Confirms Cyber Attack Exposing Passenger Data
LNER cyber attack exposes passenger contact details and journey data. No financial information or passwords were taken, but… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/uk-rail-operator-lner-cyber-attack-passenger-data/
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Palo Alto Networks User-ID Agent Flaw Leaks Passwords in Cleartext
Tags: credentials, cve, cvss, cyber, data-breach, flaw, leak, network, password, service, vulnerability, windowsA newly disclosed vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks User-ID Credential Agent on Windows systems allows service account passwords to be exposed in cleartext under certain non-default configurations. Tracked as CVE-2025-4235, the flaw carries a CVSS base score of 4.2 (Medium) and has been assigned a Moderate urgency level. Palo Alto Networks released details and…
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Managed SOC für mehr Sicherheit
Tags: awareness, cloud, compliance, cyberattack, encryption, germany, infrastructure, nis-2, password, risk, security-incident, service, soc, software, supply-chainAls zentrale Einheit überwachen Fachleute im SOC die gesamte IT-Infrastruktur eines Unternehmens. Rund um die Uhr analysieren sie alle sicherheitsrelevanten Ereignisse in Echtzeit.Die Anforderungen an IT-Sicherheit haben sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten drastisch verändert. Während früher ein einfaches Passwort als Schutzmaßnahme genügte, sind heute mehrschichtige Sicherheitskonzepte erforderlich. Nur so können sich Unternehmen effektiv vor Cyberangriffen…
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Smashing Security podcast #434: Whopper Hackers, and AI Whoppers
Ever wondered what would happen if Burger King left the keys to the kingdom lying around for anyone to use? Ethical hackers did – and uncovered drive-thru recordings, hard-coded passwords, and even the power to open a Whopper outlet on the moon. First seen on grahamcluley.com Jump to article: grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-434/
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1.6 Million Voices Stolen: Your Voice Could Be Next
A cybersecurity researcher’s recent discovery from yesterday should make every gym member’s blood run cold. Jeremiah Fowler uncovered something that defies belief, 1,605,345 audio recordings sitting completely exposed online, no password, no encryption, no protection whatsoever. These were not random files. They were five years of personal phone calls and voicemails from gym members spanning…
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Neues Phishing-Framework umgeht Multi-Faktor-Authentifizierung
Tags: authentication, ceo, ciso, cloud, corporate, cyberattack, framework, hacker, Hardware, infrastructure, mail, mfa, microsoft, passkey, password, phishing, service, strategy, zero-trustPhishing 2.0 nutzt Subdomain-Rotation und Geoblocking.Eine kürzlich aufgedeckte Phishing-Kampagne steht in Verbindung mit Salty2FA, einem Phishing-as-a-Service-(PhaaS-)Framework. Es soll entwickelt worden sein, um Multi-Faktor-Authentifizierung (MFA) zu umgehen.Wie die Cybersicherheitsfirma Ontinue herausgefunden hat,fängt sie Verifizierungsmethoden ab,rotiert Subdomains undtarnt sich innerhalb vertrauenswürdiger Plattformen wie Cloudflare Turnstile.In unserer US-Schwesterpublikation CSO erklärten die Experten, dass die Kampagne ‘bemerkenswerte technische Innovationen”…
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We’ve crossed the security singularity – Impart Security
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, breach, ciso, compliance, credentials, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, framework, group, hacker, incident response, injection, intelligence, Internet, msp, password, penetration-testing, ransomware, risk, risk-assessment, skills, software, sql, strategy, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-day, zero-trustThe Bottom Line: We’ve Crossed the Security Singularity “ The Security Singularity: When AI Democratized Cyberattacks We’ve crossed a threshold that fundamentally changes cybersecurity forever. Not with fanfare or headlines, but quietly, in the background of our AI-powered world. The expertise barrier that once separated script kiddies from sophisticated threat actors has simply… vanished. I…
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Can I have a new password, please? The $400M question.
Scattered Spider didn’t need a zero-day to breach Clorox. They just phoned the help desk”, convincing agents to reset passwords & MFA without proper checks. The result: $380M in damages. Learn from Specops Software why caller verification and audit trails are critical. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/can-i-have-a-new-password-please-the-400m-question/
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Dormant macOS Backdoor ChillyHell Resurfaces
With multiple persistence mechanisms, the modular malware can brute-force passwords, drop payloads, and communicate over different protocols. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/dormant-macos-backdoor-chillyhell-resurfaces
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LNER urges customers to be vigilant after passenger details accessed in cyber-attack
Data breach at third-party supplier involves contact details and some information about previous journeys<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/10/jaguar-land-rover-says-cyber-attack-has-affected-some-data”>Jaguar Land Rover says cyber-attack has affected ‘some data'</li></ul>The train operator LNER has urged customers to be wary of unsolicited communications after revealing some passengers’ contact details and journey records have been accessed in a cyber-attack.The data breach took place at…
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Integrating Password Breach Monitoring
A Low-Lift, High-Impact Win for Cybersecurity Product Managers Every breach story seems to follow a pattern: attackers get hold of stolen credentials and use them to walk straight into systems. It’s not a zero-day exploit or a highly sophisticated malware strain”, it’s a login and a password, often reused, that’s been floating around since the…
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Smart GPUGate malware exploits GitHub and Google Ads for evasive targeting
GPU-Gated decryption evades detection: The malware itself is delivered as a large Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) file, approximately 128 MB in size. It features a GPU-gated decryption mechanism that keeps the payload encrypted unless it detects the presence of a real GPU on the system. Researchers noted that this design allows GPUGate to remain dormant…
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Smart GPUGate malware exploits GitHub and Google Ads for evasive targeting
GPU-Gated decryption evades detection: The malware itself is delivered as a large Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) file, approximately 128 MB in size. It features a GPU-gated decryption mechanism that keeps the payload encrypted unless it detects the presence of a real GPU on the system. Researchers noted that this design allows GPUGate to remain dormant…
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Phishing kit Salty2FA washes away confidence in MFA
A call for layered and adaptive defenses: Countering Salty2FA might need something more than passwords and legacy controls, industry experts agreed. Darren Guccione, CEO of Keeper Security, argued that passkeys and passwordless authentication should be part of the strategy. “These technologies complement existing security measures by reducing reliance on traditional passwords, which remain a prime…
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Phishing kit Salty2FA washes away confidence in MFA
A call for layered and adaptive defenses: Countering Salty2FA might need something more than passwords and legacy controls, industry experts agreed. Darren Guccione, CEO of Keeper Security, argued that passkeys and passwordless authentication should be part of the strategy. “These technologies complement existing security measures by reducing reliance on traditional passwords, which remain a prime…
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Plex urges users to change passwords after data breach
Customers are urged to take action after a database containing scrambled passwords and authentication information was compromised. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/09/09/plex-urges-users-to-change-passwords-after-data-breach/