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Brute Force
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Top 10 Passwords Hackers Use to Breach RDP – Is Yours at Risk?
Top 10 Passwords hackers use to breach RDP revealed! Weak credentials cause successful cyberattacks- check if yours is on the list and secure your system now.
March 19, 2025
Iranian Hackers Target Microsoft 365, Citrix Systems with MFA Push Bombing
Iranian hackers are targeting critical infrastructure organizations with brute force tactics. This article explores their techniques, including MFA…
October 18, 2024
New Goldoon Botnet Targeting D-Link Devices by Exploiting 9-Year-Old Flaw
A new botnet called Goldoon targets D-Link routers and NAS devices putting them at risk of DDoS attacks and more. Learn how weak credentials leave you vulnerable and how to secure your network. pen_spark
May 4, 2024
Ukraine Arrests Hackers for Selling 100 Million Email, Instagram Accounts
Ukrainian police seized a massive trove of 100 million stolen email and Instagram accounts – Three individuals were…
March 20, 2024
Mandiant: X Account Hacked in Brute-Force Attack Linked to ClinkSink Campaign
Mandiant had its X account (formerly Twitter) hacked on January 3rd, 2024.
January 11, 2024
Russian Malware Developer Behind NLBrute Extradited to US
Dairy Pankov, a.k.a. dpxaker, was accused of developing brute force and malicious software, NLBrute.
February 23, 2023
T-Mobile hacker used brute force attack to steal customers’ data
A 21-year-old US citizen named John Binns has claimed responsibility for the T-Mobile data breach and labeled the carrier’s “security is awful.”
August 29, 2021
Passwords by Kaspersky Password Manager exposed to brute-force attack
If you are using Kaspersky Password Manager for creating passwords, you might want to consider regenerating those you created before Oct 2019.
July 8, 2021
Warning as hackers breach MFA to target cloud services
According to CISA, it has verified one of the users had their account breached even though they were using "proper multi-factor authentication (MFA)."
January 14, 2021
Vulnerability allowed bypassing 2FA in WHM & cPanel by bruteforcing
The vulnerability (CVE-2020-27641) allowed malicious actors to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) on the software using brute-force attacks.
November 27, 2020