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• Demetri Tringas

  

  Verizon notifies prepaid customers their accounts were breached

  bleepingcomputer.com - Sergiu Gatlan

  Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM …

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  Microsoft confirms it was breached by hacker group

  CNN

  Washington(CNN Business) — Microsoft (MSFT) has confirmed it was breached by the hacker group Lapsus$, adding to the cyber gang's growing list of victims. In a blog post late Tuesday, Microsoft said Lapsus$ had compromised one of its accounts, resulting in "limited access" to company systems but not …

• Demetri Tringas

  

  Multifactor Authentication Is Being Targeted by Hackers

  thenewstack.io - Richard MacManus

  Cybersecurity company Proofpoint has found phishing kits adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) bypassing attacks to their features.

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  Chinese Cybersecurity Company Doxes Apparent NSA Hacking Operation

  VICE - Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

  A Chinese security firm released a detailed report about what it says is malware created by Equation Group, a hacking group widely believed to be the NSA. A Chinese cybersecurity company accused the NSA of being behind a hacking tool used for ten years in a report published on Wednesday. The report …

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  Hackers have begun adapting to wider use of multi-factor authentication

  TechRepublic - Brandon Vigliarolo

  Proofpoint researchers have found that “phish kits” available for purchase online are beginning to adapt to MFA by adding transparent reverse proxies …

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  Unsecured AWS server exposed 3TB in airport employee records

  ZDNET - Charlie Osborne

  The exposure impacted airport staff across Colombia and Peru. An unsecured server has exposed sensitive data belonging to airport employees across …