Standing Intelligence Requirements

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Details

BaseFEX, a Africa-based trading platform, in which 214,953 email addresses were exposed, which were subsequently shared on a deep web platform. Of these, an assessed 213,963 records were successfully linked to plain-text passwords. The threat actor did not disclose the ultimate source of the data breach or how it was exploited.

Recommendations

• If not already enabled, turn on the compromised credentials rule for all relevant entities and ensure relevant emails are entered for those entities, or reach out to [email protected] for assistance
• If one of your entities receives an alert, ZeroFox recommends immediate password changes for the affected account
• Enable multi-factor authentication for all of your organizational accounts to help mitigate phishing and credential stuffing attacks