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Hungary’s government has discovered the hard way that the biggest threat to national security might just be its own password choices. An investigation by Bellingcat has uncovered close to 800 Hungarian government email and password pairings circulating in breach dumps, Read More …
Passwordless authentication is often presented as the end of account takeover. But to understand the real threat landscape, we need to examine how passwordless is actually deployed in the real world. Attackers do not break protocols in theory. They target Read More …
Researchers from TrendAI have been tracking the infrastructure, as well as the campaigns and operator behaviors that can be linked to Tycoon 2FA to build a clearer picture of how its services was being used at scale. By November 2025, Read More …
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate your passwords is a bad idea. It’s likely to give that password to a criminal who can then use it in a dictionary attack—which is when an attacker runs through a prepared list of Read More …
Newly disclosed vulnerability Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)-2026-24858 [Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel] allows malicious actors with a FortiCloud account and a registered device to log in to separate devices registered to other Read More …
ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for an Okta voice-phishing campaign during which the extortionist crew allegedly gained access to Crunchbase and Betterment. On Friday, the criminals leaked data allegedly stolen from market-intel broker Crunchbase, streaming platform SoundCloud, and financial-tech firm Betterment, Read More …
Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday. Many modern Windows computers rely on full-disk encryption, called BitLocker, which Read More …
Any data breach affecting 1.6 million people is big news, especially when it involves one of the most prominent password managers out there: LastPass. The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office has just fined LastPass £1.2 million ($1.6 million) for failing to Read More …
CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch against an actively exploited Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) flaw within three weeks – a scramble made more urgent by evidence that attackers may have been abusing the bug months before a fix Read More …
Imagine a scenario where malicious actors don’t need to trick you into giving up your password. They have no need to perform sophisticated social engineering attacks or exploit vulnerabilities in your operating system.Instead, they can simply force your computer to Read More …
