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The Origin Energy breach down here in Aus is all over the news this week, and as with many breaches, it's multi-faceted. You've got them leading with "don't worry, your credit card is fine", the hacker leading with "they didn't respond when I tried to report it", and now news that the two parties have "come to an agreement". Maybe money was paid, or maybe Origin made some promises to restrain the hounds if commitments about data deletion were made. But both outcomes, of course, provide no guarantee that data has been nuked, so now they get to spend perpetuity waiting for the data that maybe - just maybe - it leaks. And we all should be working on precisely that assumption, just like we did with Optus and Medibank and Latitude and Ticketek and Qantas...

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This week in scams and cybersecurity news,  

Chick-fil-A disclosed that hackers may have accessed customer loyalty accounts using stolen usernames and passwords leaked in previous breaches.  

It’s a reminder that reusing passwords across websites can be dangerous and allow one breach to snowball into many others. 

Here’s what happened and what customers need to know: 

So How Did Hackers Breach Chick-fil-A? 

Chick-fil-A is notifying customers in 10 states after a cyberattack targeted a limited number of Chick-fil-A One loyalty accounts. 

According to multiple reports, attackers used a technique known as credential stuffing, in which criminals take usernames and passwords stolen in previous data breaches and automatically test them across other websites and apps.  

If someone has reused the same password, attackers may be able to access additional accounts without ever hacking the company directly. 

Chick-fil-A said the attackers may have accessed customer information including: 

• Names and email addresses  
• Chick-fil-A One membership numbers  
• Mobile Pay numbers and QR codes  
• The last four digits of stored payment cards  
• Gift card balances  
• Birth dates, phone numbers, and addresses (if customers stored them)  

The company says it has logged affected users out of their accounts, removed stored payment methods, restored impacted rewards balances, and is notifying customers who may have been affected. 

Credential stuffing:

A cyberattack where criminals use usernames and passwords stolen in previous data breaches to automatically sign in to other websites and apps. If you’ve reused the same password across multiple accounts, one breach can give attackers access to many of them.

How to Protect Yourself: Use a unique password for every account, enable multi-factor authentication, and use a password manager to securely create and store strong passwords.

How McAfee Helps Before, During, and After a Data Breach 

Before a breach 

Personal Data Cleanup reduces your digital footprint by removing your personal information from many data broker sites, making it harder for scammers to find and target you. 

Online Account Cleanup scans for accounts you no longer use and helps you delete them, along with your personal info. 

Password Manager helps you create and securely store strong, unique passwords for every account, reducing the risk that one stolen password can unlock multiple accounts.  

During a breach 

Identity Monitoring watches for your personal information, including email addresses, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, bank accounts, credit cards, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, and more, across the dark web and known data leaks.  

Plus, we alert users on average up to 10 months earlier than similar services, so you can act fast when your personal information appears where it shouldn’t. 

After a breach 

Scam Detector identifies suspicious texts, emails, and links that often follow major breaches, while web protection blocks malicious websites designed to steal even more of your information. 

Other Scam News This Week 

Student loan scams are on the rise. Experts warn that changing federal student loan repayment rules are creating confusion that scammers are exploiting with fake debt relief offers, phishing emails, and identity theft schemes targeting borrowers. (PBS News) 

AI agent reportedly carried out a cyberattack. AI platform Hugging Face says an autonomous AI agent executed a sophisticated attack against its internal systems from start to finish; an early example of AI taking on an active role in cyberattacks rather than simply assisting human hackers. (Axios) 

Paidwork breach reportedly exposes 23 million users. Security researchers say data from the microtask platform may include names, addresses, phone numbers, bank account details, and password hashes, highlighting how even smaller online accounts can become valuable targets for cybercriminals. (Malwarebytes) 

And we’ll be back next week with more news.  

The post Chick-fil-A Data Breach Explained: What Customers Need to Know appeared first on McAfee Blog.

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The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user’s TV.

On July 2, we featured research by the security firm Spur that examined the prevalence of residential proxy software development kits (SDKs) in smart TV apps. Spur found more than 42 percent of apps available for download on LG smart TVs include SDKs that turn one’s television in a proxy node indefinitely, and that more than a quarter of the apps made for Samsung’s Tizen operating system had similar residential proxy components.

Responding to questions about Spur’s research, LG Senior Vice President John Taylor told KrebsOnSecurity the company was working with app developers to remove the residential proxy option from their apps on the webOS platform. Developers that fail to comply, he said, will find their apps suspended.

“A residential proxy network is not an intended use for LG smart TVs, and LG Electronics is working with developers to remove the residential proxy option from their apps on the webOS platform,” Taylor said. “If this option is not removed, these apps will be suspended.”

Taylor said LG is committed to keeping residential proxy networks out of its smart TV apps going forward, and that the company’s review of those apps is “well underway now.”

“As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance platform quality and the user experience, LG will continue to strengthen our evaluation process for developer-submitted apps, including those that incorporate residential proxy SDKs,” Taylor wrote in an emailed statement.

App makers looking for ways to monetize their creations can turn to residential proxy providers, which pay developers to include SDKs that turn the user’s device into a residential proxy node that is rented to paying customers. In the case of LG and Samsung smart TVs, Spur found residential proxy SDKs bundled with everything from simple games like Pac-Man to screensavers and file utilities.

Spur’s report found the residential proxy network Bright Data accounted for a majority of proxy SDKs across both Samsung and LG smart TVs. In a statement shared with KrebsOnSecurity, Bright Data said its network is built on consent and responsibility and operates by LG and Samsung terms.

“Every peer opts in through a dedicated screen and receives value in return; every customer is vetted, and our practices have now undergone a second independent audit by PwC,” the statement reads. “We remain committed to an open, transparent internet where legitimate businesses, researchers, and institutions can responsibly access data that lives in the public domain.”

Bright Data and other proxy providers named in Spur’s report all say they follow rigorous know-your-customer processes to validate legitimate uses of their services, which is often heavily tied to content-scraping activities by said customers. The proxy companies also say they incorporate technological countermeasures to prevent proxy service customers from being able to interact with and control other devices on the proxy user’s local network.

Spur argues the problem is not that residential proxy networks exist, but rather that they are being embedded at scale in devices that most consumers do not think of as computers and are not equipped to audit.

“A one-time consent prompt buried in a TV app is not a substitute for meaningful transparency, ongoing control, and platform oversight,” Spur’s Trevor Sutter wrote. “The risk is amplified when consent comes from individuals within the household who use the device but shouldn’t give consent, such as minors.”

LG’s announcement that it is culling residential proxy SDKs from its app store is welcome news, but the company recently came under fire for another questionable partnership: Pimping McAfee security products via software drivers included in its high-end LCD monitors.

Earlier this week, the Youtube channel Gamers Nexus showed that certain LG LCD monitors will automatically install an app that promotes paid McAfee antivirus subscriptions, and that the app arrives through Windows Update without an approval prompt.

Update, July 22, 1:06 p.m. ET: Added statement from Bright Data.

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I reckon this week's video on how Claude is tying together info from UniFi, Home Assistant and the Pi-Hole is an absolute ripper. Or at least the concept is - if ever there was an actual value proposition for AI it's taking lots of noise and converting it into a useful signal. Or, sometimes, it's just helping you see the woods through the trees, and that's exactly what Claude helped me do last night when every Sonos unit in the house refused to connect to any music service. It only took Claude a moment to work out: "you know your Pi-Hole is dead, right?" Uh... I do now! Give it a go, it's pretty awesome (and the Pi-Hole came good with a power cycle on the PoE port).