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SHEIN shopping app goes rogue, grabs price and URL data from your clipboard

By Paul Ducklin
It's not exactly data theft, but it's worryingly close to "unintentional treachery" - apparently because it's great for marketing purposes

Feds warn about right Royal ransomware rampage that runs the gamut of TTPs

By Paul Ducklin
Wondering which cybercrime tools, techniques and procedures to focus on? How about any and all of them?

S3 Ep124: When so-called security apps go rogue [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin
Rogue software packages. Rogue "sysadmins". Rogue keyloggers. Rogue authenticators. Rogue ROGUES!

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LastPass: Keylogger on home PC led to cracked corporate password vault

By Paul Ducklin
Seems the crooks implanted a keylogger via a vulnerable media app (LastPass politely didn't say which one!) on a developer's home computer.

Beware rogue 2FA apps in App Store and Google Play – don’t get hacked!

By Paul Ducklin
Even in Apple's and Google's "walled gardens", there are plenty of 2FA apps that are either dangerously incompetent, or unrepentantly malicious. (Or perhaps both.)

NPM JavaScript packages abused to create scambait links in bulk

By Paul Ducklin
Free spins? Bonus game points? Cheap social media followers? What harm could it possibly do if you just take a tiny little look?!

Coinbase breached by social engineers, employee data stolen

By Paul Ducklin
Another day, another "sophisticated" attack. This time, the company has handily included some useful advice along with its mea culpa...

GoDaddy admits: Crooks hit us with malware, poisoned customer websites

By Paul Ducklin
New report admits that attackers were detected in the network about three months ago, and may have been attacking for about three years.

Reddit admits it was hacked and data stolen, says “Don’t panic”

By Paul Ducklin
Reddit is suggesting three tips as a follow-up to this breach. We agree with two of them but not with the third...

Finnish psychotherapy extortion suspect arrested in France

By Naked Security writer
Company transcribed ultra-personal conversations, didn't secure them. Criminal stole them, then extorted thousands of vulnerable patients.

Password-stealing “vulnerability” reported in KeePass – bug or feature?

By Paul Ducklin
Is it a vulnerability if someone with control over your account can mess with files that your account is allowed to access anyway?

GoTo admits: Customer cloud backups stolen together with decryption key

By Paul Ducklin
We were going to write, "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more"... but it seems to go without saying these days.

T-Mobile admits to 37,000,000 customer records stolen by “bad actor”

By Paul Ducklin
Once more, it's time for Shakespeare's words: Once more unto the breach...

CircleCI – code-building service suffers total credential compromise

By Paul Ducklin
They're saying "rotate secrets"... in plain English, they mean "change your credentials". The company has a tool to help you find them all.

Inside a scammers’ lair: Ukraine busts 40 in fake bank call-centre raid

By Naked Security writer
When someone calls you up to warn you that your bank account is under attack - it's true, because THAT VERY PERSON is the one attacking you!

Twitter data of “+400 million unique users” up for sale – what to do?

By Paul Ducklin
If the crooks have connected up your phone number and your Twitter handle... what could go wrong?

LastPass finally admits: Those crooks who got in? They did steal your password vaults, after all…

By Paul Ducklin
The crooks now know who you are, where you live, which computers are yours, where you go online... and they got those password vaults, too.

COVID-bit: the wireless spyware trick with an unfortunate name

By Paul Ducklin
It's not the switching that's the problem, it's the switching of the switching!

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Credit card skimming – the long and winding road of supply chain failure

By Paul Ducklin
Don't keep calling home to a JavaScript server that closed its doors eight years ago!

LastPass admits to customer data breach caused by previous breach

By Paul Ducklin
Seems that the developer account that the crooks breached last time gave indirect access to customer data this time round.

Black Friday and retail season – watch out for PayPal “money request” scams

By Paul Ducklin
Don't let a keen eye for bargains lead you into risky online behaviour...

Online ticketing company “See” pwned for 2.5 years by attackers

By Paul Ducklin
Don't be a cybersecurity slowcoach - you need to spot possible attacks as soon as you can.

Fashion brand SHEIN fined $1.9m for lying about data breach

By Naked Security writer
Is "pay a small fine and keep on trading" a sufficient penalty for letting a breach happen, impeding an investigation, and hiding the truth?

Former Uber CSO convicted of covering up megabreach back in 2016

By Naked Security writer
Obstructed FTC proceedings, and concealed a crime, said the jury.

Optus breach – Aussie telco told it will have to pay to replace IDs

By Paul Ducklin
Licence compromised? Passport number burned? Need a new one? Who's going to pay?

Morgan Stanley fined millions for selling off devices full of customer PII

By Paul Ducklin
Critical data on old disks always seems inaccessible if you really need it. But when you DON''T want it back, guess what happens...

S3 Ep101: Uber and LastPass breaches – is 2FA all it’s cracked up to be? [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin
Latest episode - listen now! Learn why adopting 2FA isn't a reason to relax your other security precautions...

LastPass source code breach – incident response report released

By Paul Ducklin
Wondering how you'd handle a data breach report if the worst happened to you? Here's a useful example.

S3 Ep100.5: Uber breach – an expert speaks [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin
Chester Wisniewski on what we can learn from Uber: "Just because a big company didn't have the security they should doesn't mean you can't."

UBER HAS BEEN HACKED, boasts hacker – how to stop it happening to you

By Paul Ducklin
Uber is all over the news for a widely-publicised data breach. We help you answer the question, "How do I stop this happening to me?"

Serious Security: Browser-in-the-browser attacks – watch out for windows that aren’t!

By Paul Ducklin
Simple but super-sneaky - use a picture of a browser, and convince people it's real...

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LastPass source code breach – do we still recommend password managers?

By Paul Ducklin
What does the recent LastPass breach mean for password managers? Just a bump in the road, or a reason to ditch them entirely?

Breaching airgap security: using your phone’s gyroscope as a microphone

By Paul Ducklin
One bit per second makes the Voyager probe data rate seem blindingly fast. But it's enough to break your security assumptions...

APIC/EPIC! Intel chips leak secrets even the kernel shouldn’t see…

By Paul Ducklin
If you've ever written code that left stuff lying around in memory when you didn't need it any more... we bet you've regretted it!

Slack admits to leaking hashed passwords for five years

By Paul Ducklin
"When those invitations went out... somehow, your password hash went out with them."

T-Mobile to cough up $500 million over 2021 data breach

By Paul Ducklin
Technically, it's not a fine, and the lawyers will get a big chunk of it. But it still adds up to a half-billion-dollar data breach.

Office macro security: on-again-off-again feature now BACK ON AGAIN!

By Paul Ducklin
20 years to turn it on, then 20 weeks to turn it off, then just 2 weeks to turn it back on again. That's progress!

Facebook 2FA phish arrives just 28 minutes after scam domain created

By Paul Ducklin
The crooks hit us up with this phishing email less than half an hour after they activated their new scam domain.

Harmony blockchain loses nearly $100M due to hacked private keys

By Paul Ducklin
The crooks needed at least two private keys, each stored in two parts... but they got them anyway.

Capital One identity theft hacker finally gets convicted

By Paul Ducklin
It took three years, but the Capital One cracker was convicted in the end. Don't get caught out in a data breach of your own!

GitHub issues final report on supply-chain source code intrusions

By Paul Ducklin
Learn how to find out which apps you've given access rights to, and how to revoke those rights immediately in an emergency.

LAPSUS$ hacks continue despite two hacker suspects in court

By Paul Ducklin
Do you know where in your company to report security anomalies? If you receive such reports, do you have an efficient way to process them?

World Backup Day: 5 data recovery tips for everyone!

By Paul Ducklin
The only backup you will ever regret is the one you didn't make

Adafruit suffers GitHub data breach – don’t let this happen to you

By Paul Ducklin
Training data stashed in GitHub by mistake... unfortunately, it was *real* data

Linux kernel patches “performance can be harmful” bug in video driver

By Paul Ducklin
This bug is fiendishly hard to exploit - but if you patch, it won't be there to exploit at all.

Serious Security: Apple Safari leaks private data via database API – what you need to know

By Paul Ducklin
There's a tiny data leakage bug in the WebKit browser engine... but it could act as a "supercookie" identifier for your browsing

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