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Two two American gun shops, Rainier Arms and Numrich Gun Parts, that operate e-commerce sites have disclosed data breaches resulting from card skimmer infections on their sites. Credit card skimmers are malicious JavaScript code either embedded on the sites or fetched from a remote resource by a seemingly innocuous element, such as a favicon.
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While all markets were united in financial services being the most important sector for robust identity verification, consumers in Mexico believe it is an important step when interacting with sharing economy brands. Where more sensitive personal data is concerned, consumers indicated robust identity verification becomes even more important.
Malicious actors can gain unauthorized access to users' online accounts via a new technique called "Account pre-hijacking," new research has found. The attack takes aim at the account creation process that's ubiquitous in websites and other online platforms, enabling an adversary to perform a set of actions before an unsuspecting victim creates an account in a target service.
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Online accounts getting hijacked and misused is an everyday occurrence, but did you know that account pre-hijacking attacks are also possible? Inspired by previous research on preemptive account hijacking by way of single sign-on technology, researchers Avinash Sudhodanan and Andrew Paverd wanted to see whether an action by an attacker performed before a victim creates an account may allow the former to gain access to it once the the victim has created/recovered the account.
Security researchers have revealed that hackers can hijack your online accounts before you even register them by exploiting flaws that have been already been fixed on popular websites, including Instagram, LinkedIn, Zoom, WordPress, and Dropbox. Rew Paverd, a researcher at Microsoft Security Response Center, and Avinash Sudhodanan, an independent security researcher, analyzed 75 popular online services and found that at least 35 are vulnerable to account pre-hijacking attacks.
A new research published by academics from KU Leuven, Radboud University, and the University of Lausanne has revealed that users' email addresses are exfiltrated to tracking, marketing, and analytics domains before such is submitted and without prior consent. LiveRamp, Taboola, Adobe, Verizon, Yandex, Meta, TikTok, Salesforce, Listrak, and Oracle are some of the top third-party trackers that have been spotted logging email addresses, while Yandex, Mixpanel, and LogRocket lead the list in the password-grabbing category.
Bad bots are often the first indicator of online fraud and represent a risk to digital businesses, as well as their customers. In 2021, evasive bad bots - a grouping of moderate and advanced bad bots that elude standard security defenses - made up 65.6% of all bad bot traffic.
Pro-Beijing and Iran miscreants are using the war in Ukraine to spread disinformation that supports these countries' political interests - namely, advancing anti-Western narratives - according to threat-intel experts at Mandiant. It also attributes these campaigns to actors that the threat researchers say are operating in support of nation-states including Russia, Belarus, China and Iran.