Hacks and data leaks have affected many major players in recent years, including AT&T Vendor(9 Million accounts), T-Mobile (37 Million accounts), JD Sports(10 Million), MyDeal (2.2Million), Dropbox (nearly 69 million accounts), Flagstar bank (1.5 Million) and eBay (145 million). Those were bad. But not the worst. What are the most notorious hacks in history? They’re subject to debate, but these 27 attacks categorized under OWASP Top 10 would be strong candidates for the title.

The Rising Threat of Traffers report, compiled by Outpost24’s Threat Intelligence team, KrakenLabs, provides a deep dive into the credential theft ecosystem, and encourages organizations to evaluate their security measures against these evolving threats. In recent years, the theft of credentials has evolved into a highly professionalized cybercriminal activity.

Mass assignment is a vulnerability that allows attackers to exploit predictable record patterns and invoke illegal actions. Mass assignment usually occurs when properties are not filtered when binding client-provided data-to-data models. Vulnerabilities of this type allow an attacker to create additional objects in POST request payloads, allowing them to modify properties that should be immutable.

Last week, the incident response firm Mitiga published research outlining the potential exposure of Okta passwords of organizational users. The method involves a mistaken entry of one’s password in the username field in an Okta login interface – something that, according to the research, is not an infrequent occurrence.

In the February 2023 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft fixed a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Word, tracked as CVE-2023-21716. The vulnerability is critical, having a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10, and could allow an attacker to execute code with the same privileges as the victim through rich text format (RTF) documents.

We have grown to expect a reasonable level of privacy and security when we use services on the web and web-based applications. That’s because these services deal with every aspect of our daily lives — from money and finances, to how we interact with government services, to our education or the education of our children, to communicating with friends and family, to healthcare, to simply buying food to eat.

On Saturday, March 18, 2023, Horizon3 researchers released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2023-27532, a high-severity missing authentication vulnerability impacting Veeam Backup and Replication (VBR) software. Based on Horizon3’s technical analysis published on March 23rd, the PoC exploit allows a remote unauthenticated threat actor with access to the VBR service to obtain plaintext usernames and passwords.