credential stuffing

How an employee hacked into the payroll system of his company to steal the salary of other workers

On: February 24, 2022

In: Cyber Security

Tagged: credential stuffing, Cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, electronic fraud, Hacking, incidents, Information Security, United States, US Department of Justice (DOJ)

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Nigerian citizen Charles Onus has pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to conduct multiple cyberattacks to steal the payroll deposits ofRead More →

Data of 94% of LinkedIn’s 700 million users for sale in dark web forums

On: June 29, 2021

In: Data Breach

Tagged: brute force attacks, confidential information, credential stuffing, Cyberattack, cybersecurity, Dark Web, data breach, Hacking, LinkedIn

A couple of months ago it was revealed that a hacker was selling a database with almost 500 million records extracted from LinkedIn and since then things do not seemRead More →

Linksys routers users change the password or stop using them. Clients are getting infected with malware

On: April 16, 2020

Tagged: credential stuffing, cybersecurity, Hacking, Linksys, malware, Router

Linksys, a renowned router manufacturer, has resorted to an urgent measure to protect its users. The company’s IT teams had to forcibly reset passwords for all of their customers’ SmartRead More →