password leak
Hackers target Microsoft 365 accounts with 81 million login attempts
An aggressive password-spraying campaign targeting Microsoft 365 environments generated more than 81 million login attempts over a two-week period. The threat actor tried to authenticate via Microsoft’s Azure command-line interface (CLI) using still valid username and password combinations that had been exposed in past breaches. Microsoft’s Azure CLI is used for managing Azure cloud resources, […]
New RAMBO attack steals data using RAM in air-gapped computers
A novel side-channel attack dubbed “RAMBO” (Radiation of Air-gapped Memory Bus for Offense) generates electromagnetic radiation from a device’s RAM to send data from air-gapped computers. Air-gapped systems, typically used in mission-critical environments with exceptionally high-security requirements, such as governments, weapon systems, and nuclear power stations, are isolated from the public internet and other networks to […]
The biggest password leak ever: nearly 10 billion credentials exposed
Cybersecurity researchers are calling it the largest password compilation leak of all time. On July 4, a newly registered user on a popular hacking forum posted a file containing nearly 10 billion compromised passwords in plaintext. The post was first noticed by researchers at Cybernews. “Xmas came early this year,” user “ObamaCare” wrote on the […]