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Researchers find 26 billion access data on the web
27 January 2024
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A package with 26 billion data records containing access data appeared online. It is intended to contain user access data from many companies such as LinkedIn, Adobe or Dropbox, as well as from other companies and organizations. It remains to be seen whether the data is dangerous or current. The numbers sound gigantic: 12 terabytes of information contain 26 billion data sets with access data and 3.800 folders with sorted information. Bob Dyachenko, cybersecurity researcher and owner of SecurityDiscovery.com, along with the Cybernews team, discovered the billions of exposed records on an open instance whose owner is likely…

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Cyber ​​forensics: Convenience plays into the hands of cybercriminals
13 October 2023
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Cyber ​​Forensics: The latest Active Adversary Report from Sophos uncovers an interesting turnaround that addresses a common problem in IT security: convenience. Hard-working attackers exploit this mercilessly. In previous case data from the report, which analyzes actual cyberattacks, exploiting vulnerabilities was the leading cause of attacks, closely followed by compromised credentials. In the first half of 2023, this picture reverses significantly, and for the first time, compromised access data was the top cause at 50%. The exploitation of a vulnerability was 23%. Stolen login credentials…

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Darknet: 100.000 hacked ChatGPT accounts sold 
June 22, 2023
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Darknet: 100.000 hacked ChatGPT accounts sold

Over 100.000 ChatGPT accounts were hacked and sold on dark web marketplaces in a year. This gives cybercriminals the opportunity to use the AI ​​for their purposes and at the same time steal the data stored in the chat history - sometimes very sensitive company secrets. Group-IB experts have identified 101.134 info-stealers-infected devices with stored ChatGPT credentials. Group-IB's threat intelligence platform found these compromised credentials in the logs of information-stealing malware traded on illegal dark web marketplaces over the past year. The number of available logs with compromised ChatGPT accounts reached in May 2023…

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Access data misuse doubles
March 3, 2021
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F5 study: Incidents with login data doubled since 2016. Credential Stuffing Report extensively investigates credential abuse. The number of annual credential-related incidents nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020. This is shown by the current Credential Stuffing Report from F5. The largest study of its kind found a 46 percent decrease in the number of stolen credentials over the same period. The average amount of data fell from 63 million records in 2016 to 17 million last year. The mean size increased in 2020 (2 million records) to 234 percent compared to 2019 and was ...

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