Credential Stuffing: The Financial Sector’s New Headache

Banks and other financial institutions have long been the targets of hackers. Not only do they deal with massive amounts of funds daily, but they are also entrusted with valuable personal information that stealing it is a major goal for many cyber criminals. This treasure trove of personal information includes credit card data, customer information, and the wealth of corporate data that can be sold off or exchanged by those looking to make a quick profit or get an edge over a business competitor. Now they have a new increasingly popular threat to combat. Credential stuffing is an emerging attack method which can be considered a brute force attack. Credential stuffing is the automated injection of breached username and password pairs in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts. Access to accounts is done by using large numbers of spilled credentials are automatically entered into websites, often by botnet...

Musicnewsupdate.info POP-UP Redirect

Musicnewsupdate.info is one of the many rogue websites on the Internet (very similar to n1cely.com, ads.diamonds, adhunter.media and so on) which is designed to redirect its visitors to untrustworthy/unreliable websites. In most cases users end up on musicnewsupdate.info unwillingly, it's potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) that cause such redirects. PUAs usually get installed unwillingly, too. In addition to unwanted redirects, PUAs collect user-system information and deliver intrusive ads. Following the infiltration, PUAs use default web browsers to open new tabs or windows and redirect users to musicnewsupdate.info website. Once it gets visited, users are being forced to visit even more (about 2-3) untrustworthy websites. There is a high chance that one of these untrustworthy websites will be malicious (contain malicious content) and visiting them might result in various high-risk computer infect...