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Microsoft: New Outlook security changes coming to personal accounts

Microsoft has announced new cybersecurity enhancements for Outlook personal email accounts as part of its 'Secure Future Initiative,' including the deprecation of basic authentication (username + password) by September 16, 2024.
- Bill Toulas
- June 15, 2024
- 10:12 AM
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Hackers mint 1.79 billion crypto tokens from PlayDapp gaming platform

Hackers are believed to have used a stolen private key to mint and steal over 1.79 billion PLA tokens, a cryptocurrency used within the PlayDapp ecosystem.
- Bill Toulas
- February 13, 2024
- 11:31 AM
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A mishandled GitHub token exposed Mercedes-Benz source code

A mishandled GitHub token gave unrestricted access to Mercedes-Benz's internal GitHub Enterprise Service, exposing source code to the public.
- Bill Toulas
- January 30, 2024
- 01:42 PM
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Microsoft Visual Studio Code flaw lets extensions steal passwords

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor and development environment contains a flaw that allows malicious extensions to retrieve authentication tokens stored in Windows, Linux, and macOS credential managers.
- Bill Toulas
- August 08, 2023
- 05:49 PM
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Flash loan attack on Jimbos Protocol steals over $7.5 million

Jimbos Protocol, an Arbitrum-based DeFi project, has suffered a flash loan attack that resulted in the loss of more than of 4000 ETH tokens, currently valued at over $7,500,000.
- Bill Toulas
- May 29, 2023
- 11:20 AM
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Microsoft Teams stores auth tokens as cleartext in Windows, Linux, Macs

Security analysts have found a severe security vulnerability in the desktop app for Microsoft Teams that gives threat actors access to authentication tokens and accounts with multi-factor authentication (MFA) turned on.
- Bill Toulas
- September 14, 2022
- 11:40 AM
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Hackers steal $6 million from blockchain music platform Audius

The decentralized music platform Audius was hacked over the weekend, with threat actors stealing over 18 million AUDIO tokens worth approximately $6 million.
- Bill Toulas
- July 26, 2022
- 12:09 PM
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Discord Nitro gift codes now demanded as ransomware payments

In a novel approach to ransom demands, a new ransomware calling itself 'NitroRansomware' encrypts victim's files and then demands a Discord Nitro gift code to decrypt files.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 18, 2021
- 02:10 PM
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NSA warns of hackers forging cloud authentication information

An advisory from the U.S. National Security Agency is providing Microsoft Azure administrators guidance to detect and protect against threat actors looking to access resources in the cloud by forging authentication information.
- Ionut Ilascu
- December 18, 2020
- 11:56 AM
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Malicious NPM project steals Discord accounts, browser info

A heavily obfuscated and malicious NPM project is used to steal Discord user tokens and browser information from unsuspecting users.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 09, 2020
- 05:37 PM
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Discord Turned Into an Account Stealer by Updated Malware

A new version of the popular AnarchyGrabber Discord malware has been released that modifies the Discord client files so that it can evade detection and steal user accounts every time someone logs into the chat service.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 03, 2020
- 06:07 PM
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Hostinger Data Breach Affects Almost 14 Million Customers

Hosting provider Hostinger today announced that it reset the login passwords of 14 million of its customers following a recent security breach that enabled unauthorized access to a client database.
- Ionut Ilascu
- August 25, 2019
- 04:00 PM
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EA Fixes Origin Game Platform To Prevent Account Takeovers

Security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the gaming platform from Electronic Arts (EA) that could have allowed an attacker to take over the accounts of as many as 300 million users.
- Ionut Ilascu
- June 26, 2019
- 09:16 AM
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