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Brute Force
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Ukraine Arrests Hackers for Selling 100 Million Email, Instagram Accounts
Ukrainian police seized a massive trove of 100 million stolen email and Instagram accounts – Three individuals were…
Mandiant: X Account Hacked in Brute-Force Attack Linked to ClinkSink Campaign
Mandiant had its X account (formerly Twitter) hacked on January 3rd, 2024.
Russian Malware Developer Behind NLBrute Extradited to US
Dairy Pankov, a.k.a. dpxaker, was accused of developing brute force and malicious software, NLBrute.
T-Mobile hacker used brute force attack to steal customers’ data
A 21-year-old US citizen named John Binns has claimed responsibility for the T-Mobile data breach and labeled the carrier’s “security is awful.”
Passwords by Kaspersky Password Manager exposed to brute-force attack
If you are using Kaspersky Password Manager for creating passwords, you might want to consider regenerating those you created before Oct 2019.
Warning as hackers breach MFA to target cloud services
According to CISA, it has verified one of the users had their account breached even though they were using "proper multi-factor authentication (MFA)."
Vulnerability allowed bypassing 2FA in WHM & cPanel by bruteforcing
The vulnerability (CVE-2020-27641) allowed malicious actors to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) on the software using brute-force attacks.
Hackers deface Roblox accounts with pro-Trump messages
Roblox has over 100 million registered users but only a handful of accounts were compromised. As the US…
Hacker gets $30,000 for reporting hack Instagram account flaw
The flaw allowed anyone with knowledge of brute force attack to hack Instagram accounts without raising any suspicion.…
The Pitfalls of Keeping Your Ports Wide Open
Based on security assessment results, penetration testers often recommend hiding an enterprise network’s ports behind a whitelist. However,…