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Microsoft, Dutch security agencies lift veil on Laundry Bear cyber espionage group

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Microsoft, Dutch security agencies lift veil on Laundry Bear cyber espionage group 2025-05-27 at 17:02 By Zeljka Zorz The Dutch intelligence and security services have identified a new Russia-affiliated threat group that has been breaching government organizations and commercial entities in Europe and North America, and they dubbed it Laundry Bear. “Compared to some other […]

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Flawed WordPress theme may allow admin account takeover on 22,000+ sites (CVE-2025-4322)

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Flawed WordPress theme may allow admin account takeover on 22,000+ sites (CVE-2025-4322) 2025-05-21 at 13:32 By Zeljka Zorz A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-4322) in Motors, a WordPress theme popular with car/motor dealerships and rental services, can be easily exploited by unauthenticated attackers to take over admin accounts and gain full control over target WP-based sites. The

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Attackers phish OAuth codes, take over Microsoft 365 accounts

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Attackers phish OAuth codes, take over Microsoft 365 accounts 2025-04-23 at 13:36 By Zeljka Zorz Suspected Russian threat actors are using OAuth-based phishing attacks to get targets to grant them access to their Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts. “The primary tactics observed involve the attacker requesting victim’s supply Microsoft Authorization codes, which grant the attacker with

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If you think you’re immune to phishing attempts, you’re wrong!

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If you think you’re immune to phishing attempts, you’re wrong! 2025-03-26 at 16:17 By Zeljka Zorz Security consultant Troy Hunt, the creator of the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) service, has revealed that he got tricked by a clever phishing email, and that the attacker gained access to his Mailchimp account and stole a list

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GitHub project maintainers targeted with fake security alert

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GitHub project maintainers targeted with fake security alert 2025-03-17 at 12:52 By Zeljka Zorz A phishing campaign targeting GitHub account owners has been trying to scare them with a fake security alert into allowing a malicious OAuth app access to their account and repositories. The fake security alert from GitHub GitHub users have taken to

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Account takeover detection: There’s no single tell

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Account takeover detection: There’s no single tell 2025-02-24 at 14:48 By Zeljka Zorz Account takeover (ATO) is one of the most prevalent attack types; Proofpoint says that in 2024, 99% of the customer tenants the company monitors were hit with at least one account takeover attempt, and 62% of the customers experienced at least one

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Threat actors are using legitimate Microsoft feature to compromise M365 accounts

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Threat actors are using legitimate Microsoft feature to compromise M365 accounts 2025-02-14 at 16:23 By Zeljka Zorz Suspected Russian threat actors have been taking advantage of Microsoft Device Code Authentication to trick targets into granting them access to their Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts. “While Device Code Authentication attacks are not new, they appear to have

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How Russian hackers went after NGOs’ WhatsApp accounts

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How Russian hackers went after NGOs’ WhatsApp accounts 2025-01-17 at 17:34 By Zeljka Zorz Star Blizzard, a threat actor tied to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), was spotted attempting to compromise targets’ WhatsApp accounts through a clever phishing campaign. The campaign The campaign started with a spear-phishing email that was made to look like

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European companies hit with effective DocuSign-themed phishing emails

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European companies hit with effective DocuSign-themed phishing emails 2024-12-18 at 14:07 By Zeljka Zorz A threat actor looking to take over the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure of European companies has successfully compromised accounts of multiple victims in different firms, according to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers. The phishing campaign The attack started earlier this

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Solana’s popular web3.js library backdoored in supply chain compromise

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Solana’s popular web3.js library backdoored in supply chain compromise 2024-12-04 at 18:03 By Zeljka Zorz A software supply chain attack has lead to the publication of malicious versions of Solana’s web3.js library on the npm registry. Just like the recent Lottie Player supply chain compromise, this attack was reportedly made possible due to compromised (phished)

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Arrested: USDoD, Anonymous Sudan, SEC X account hacker

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Arrested: USDoD, Anonymous Sudan, SEC X account hacker 2024-10-18 at 12:22 By Zeljka Zorz Law enforcement agencies have arrested suspects involved in cyber attacks claimed by USDoD and Anonymous Sudan, as well as a person involved in the hacking of SEC’s X (Twitter) account. USDoD On Wednesday, the Brazilian federal police (Policia Federal) arrested a

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Ransomware attackers hop from on-premises systems to cloud to compromise Microsoft 365 accounts

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Ransomware attackers hop from on-premises systems to cloud to compromise Microsoft 365 accounts 2024-09-30 at 17:01 By Zeljka Zorz Storm-0501, an affiliate of several high-profile ransomware-as-a-service outfits, has been spotted compromising targets’ cloud environments and on-premises systems. “Storm-0501 is the latest threat actor observed to exploit weak credentials and over-privileged accounts to move from organizations’

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SYS01 info-stealer pushed via Facebook ads, LinkedIn and YouTube posts

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SYS01 info-stealer pushed via Facebook ads, LinkedIn and YouTube posts 2024-07-16 at 13:16 By Zeljka Zorz Malicious Google ads are a well known threat, but malvertising can also be found on other popular online destinations such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Case in point: an enduring campaign that aims to infect Facebook users with the

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Open-source Rafel RAT steals info, locks Android devices, asks for ransom

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Open-source Rafel RAT steals info, locks Android devices, asks for ransom 2024-06-24 at 14:46 By Zeljka Zorz The open-source Rafel RAT is being leveraged by multiple threat actors to compromise Android devices and, in some cases, to lock them, encrypt their contents, and demand money to restore the device to its original state. Check Point

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361 million account credentials leaked on Telegram: Are yours among them?

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361 million account credentials leaked on Telegram: Are yours among them? 2024-06-04 at 15:03 By Zeljka Zorz A new trove of 361 million email addresses has been added to Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP), the free online service through which users can check whether their account credentials and other data has been compromised in one

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How fraudsters stole $37 million from Coinbase Pro users

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How fraudsters stole $37 million from Coinbase Pro users 2024-05-29 at 13:46 By Zeljka Zorz A convincing phishing page and some over-the-phone social engineering allowed a group of crooks to steal over $37 million from unlucky Coinbase Pro users. One of them – Chirag Tomar, a 30-year-old citizen of the Republic of India – has

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Okta warns customers about credential stuffing onslaught

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Okta warns customers about credential stuffing onslaught 2024-04-29 at 14:01 By Zeljka Zorz Credential stuffing attacks have exploded this April, Okta warns, and advises its customers to use available tools to block access requests originating from residential proxies before authentication takes place. Abuse of proxy networks “In credential stuffing attacks, adversaries attempt to sign-in to

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Microsoft: Russian hackers accessed internal systems, code repositories

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Microsoft: Russian hackers accessed internal systems, code repositories 2024-03-11 at 14:14 By Zeljka Zorz Midnight Blizzard (aka APT29), a group of Russian hackers tied to the country’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), has leveraged information stolen from Microsoft corporate email systems to burrow into the company’s source code repositories and internal systems. “It is apparent that

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Spoutible API exposed encrypted password reset tokens, 2FA secrets of users

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Spoutible API exposed encrypted password reset tokens, 2FA secrets of users 2024-02-06 at 16:33 By Helga Labus A publicly exposed API of social media platform Spoutible may have allowed threat actors to scrape information that can be used to hijack user accounts. The problem with the Spoutible API Security consultant Troy Hunt has been tipped

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Lagging Mastodon admins urged to patch critical account takeover flaw (CVE-2024-23832)

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Lagging Mastodon admins urged to patch critical account takeover flaw (CVE-2024-23832) 2024-02-06 at 12:02 By Zeljka Zorz Five days after Mastodon developers pushed out fixes for a remotely exploitable account takeover vulnerability (CVE-2024-23832), over 66% of Mastodon servers out there have been upgraded to close the hole. About Mastodon Mastodon is open-source (server) software for

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