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An ongoing outage affects multiple Microsoft 365 services, with customers worldwide reporting delays, sign-in failures, and issues accessing their accounts. The affected services include the Exchange Online hosted email platform for businesses and the Microsoft Teams communication platform, as well as SharePoint Online, the Graph API, and Universal Print.
A researcher has discovered how to use your installed Google Chrome extensions to generate a fingerprint of your device that can be used to track you online. Yesterday, web developer 'z0ccc' shared a new fingerprinting method called 'Extension Fingerprints' that can generate a tracking hash based on a browser's installed Google Chrome extensions.
An ambitious project spearheaded by the World Economic Forum is working to develop a map of the cybercrime ecosystem using open source information. Instead of only looking at highly technical indicators of compromise, the researchers are also relying on publicly available sources of information: social media accounts, which can reveal who in the criminal world is "Friends" with whom, as well as public information including indictments and other court documents as well as published blogs and analysis of various crime rings.
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.