Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2023
Gen Digital, formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock, warns that hackers breached Norton Password Manager accounts. Gen Digital, formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock, informed its customers that threat actors have breached Norton Password Manager accounts in credential-stuffing attacks. The company detected an unusually large volume of failed logins to customer accounts on December 12, 2022, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2022
This post explains what is a credential stuffing attack and which are the countermeasures to prevent them. A credential stuffing attempt can be caught as a behavioral anomaly – if youâre looking. Earmarked by the FBI as a particular threat to the financial service industry just over a year ago, the increase of internet traffic, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2020
Retail giant The North Face has reset the passwords for some of its customers in response to a successful credential stuffing attack. Outdoor retail giant The North Face has forced a password reset for a number of its customers following a successful credential stuffing attack that took place on October 8th and 9th. Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2020
The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat confirmed that thousands of user accounts for online Canadian government services were recently hacked. According to a press release issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, thousands of user accounts for online government services were recently hacked. The hackers targeted the GCKey service with credential stuffing attacks, the service […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2018
Operator at kayo.moe found a 42M Record Credential Stuffing Data containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card info. A huge archive containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card data has been found on a free anonymous hosting service, Kayo.moe. The operator of the service shared the file with the popular expert Troy Hunt […]
