Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Lapsus$ ransomware hit Impresa, the largest media conglomerate in Portugal and the owner of SIC and Expresso. The Lapsus$ ransomware gang has compromised the infrastructure of Impresa, the largest media conglomerate in Portugal. Source TheRecord. At this time the websites of the company are in maintenance mode. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Tips to Help Avoid Internet Fraud IdentityIQ Today, where the internet plays a crucial role in our daily lives, it is essential to be vigilant and proactive in helping protect yourself from internet fraud. Continue reading to learn how help to protect yourself from the dangers of internet fraud.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Business media assets have become exceptionally valuable intellectual property for brands in recent years. Data breaches that compromise proprietary media content can be financially frustrating at best, and completely shatter an organization's reputation at worst. What are digital media assets?

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2022

A credential-stealing Windows-based malware, Spyware.FFDroider , is after social media credentials and cookies, according to researchers at ThreatLabz. It uses specific methods for each browser to exfiltrate the data stored in the target browsers: Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Internet Explorer Microsoft Edge. Social media.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Social media feels like the natural evolution of technology, like something that would have happened no matter what. It’s too late now to re-model social media, so we have to learn to live with what we have and make better choices from here on out. The Social Media we should have had. The Social Media we truly have.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Since the dawn of the Internet, the digital world has continued to evolve, offering users unlimited access to information, entertainment and ways of connecting with people around the globe. Despite these benefits, going online can expose users to multiple risks to their safety and privacy. How to ensure safe digital encounters.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2022

TikTok moms have started a movement: Calling out potential creeps who follow child influencer accounts on the platform. The latest account in the spotlight is @wren.eleanor, a TikTok account with a massive 17.3 Keep your children off the internet! Take your social media accounts private. million followers.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

7 Tips to Follow for Safer Internet Day IdentityIQ The 20 th annual Safer Internet Day is taking place on Feb. Safer Internet Day is a campaign that aims to educate the public on internet safety and encourage everyone to take part in creating a safer internet. Why is Safer Internet Day Important?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Safer Internet Day 2023: Empowering Kids and Families for a Safer Internet divya Tue, 02/07/2023 - 06:44 Save the date for Safer Internet Day 2023 , which will take place on Tuesday, 7 February 2023, the 20th edition of the campaign! Besides the benefits and opportunities offered by the internet, dangers and risks are looming.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Importantly, if the Internet were to achieve such a promise, then everyone, no matter their gender, race, income level, education, or age, could feel as safe and as private online as they deserve. Teenagers were, perhaps understandably, twice as likely as those aged 65 and up to have their social media accounts hacked.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election. As a security expert , I believe it’s a tool uniquely suited to Internet-era propaganda. This is all very new.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For the most popular operating system in the world—which is Android and it isn’t even a contest —there’s a sneaky cyberthreat that can empty out a person’s bank accounts to fill the illicit coffers of cybercriminals. The ATS framework uses the harvested credentials to initiate unauthorized money transfers to accounts held by the attacker.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Everything connected to the internet is vulnerable to cyber attacks. With the multitude of online shops now asking you to create an account for placing an order or creating a wishlist, it might seem very convenient to reuse passwords. Make sure that passwords for e-mail, banking, social media and shopping accounts are all different.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

. Tesla Chief Elon Musk, who intends to acquire social media giant Twitter for $44 billion, has put the company in a fix. He just wants the networking firm to come clean by deleting 20% of BOT accounts it owns and uses for marketing practices.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2022

Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram in Russia to prevent the spreading of info related to the Ukraine invasion. Russia will ban Instagram, the decision was announced by Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor. “As you know, on March 11, Meta Platforms Inc. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Social media feels like the natural evolution of technology, like something that would have happened no matter what. It’s too late now to re-model social media, so we have to learn to live with what we have and make better choices from here on out. The Social Media we should have had. The Social Media we truly have.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos singing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. Images from Punchmade Dev’s Twitter/X account show him displaying bags of cash and wearing a functional diamond-crusted payment card skimmer. Punchmade Dev’s shop.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

[ NASDAQ: SZMK ] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. He acknowledged that the purloined account had the ability to add or modify the advertising creatives that get run on customer ad campaigns.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2024

Weaponizing social media How did we get here? Mainstream news media gravitates to chasing the political antics of the moment. This tends to diffuse sober analysis of the countless examples of Russia, in particular, weaponizing social media to spread falsehoods, interfere in elections, target infrastructure and even radicalize youth.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Popular fast food restaurant chain Chik-fil-A recently said it was investigating reports of "suspicious activity" on customer accounts. Dominic Alvieri, a cybersecurity analyst and security researcher, was one of the first to share this information on social media: Chik-fil-A investigating cyber incident from apparent app breach Wednesday.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Employees and executives are often oversharing personal details on social media and even in automated out-of-office (OOO) email messages. Of course, OOO instructions serve an important business communications function, and a strong strong social media profile is a great way to network with your peers and brand yourself. Social media.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

While the internet and social media have been very positive for businesses, there remains an inherent risk when it comes to how brands manage their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. Here are five potential pitfalls of social media marketing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 8, 2021

For the first time in the history of professional social media platform LinkedIn a formal investigation has been launched by Italian watchdog Garante Privacy over a data breach of 500m LinkedIn user accounts. It also acts as a supervisory authority for General Regulation on protecting Personal data in European Union.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 26, 2021

You may decide to delete your Twitter account, because social media isn’t for everyone. Perhaps you set up an account to see what the big deal is. Whatever your reason, if you’re looking to delete your account, you’ve come to the right place. How to delete your Twitter account permanently.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Supreme Court is about to reconsider Section 230, a law that’s been the foundation of the way we have used the Internet for decades. The court will be handling a few cases that at first glance are about online platforms' liability for hosting accounts from foreign terrorists. Whether we like it or not. Google and Twitter v.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 10, 2022

Elon Musk, the Chief of Tesla and Starlink Satellite Internet, offered a $44 billion deal to Twitter. But the only thing he requested was that the company should come clean and take down fake accounts that were bots and generating fake tweets and might also be in use to spread misinformation, blasphemy content, fake likes, and whatnot.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 21, 2021

Researchers have recently stumbled upon an unsecure database belonging to Fleek, an X-rated social media app Fleek that ceased operations in 2019. Most of the data in the S3 bucket consisted of images uploaded by users, including their account avatars,” the report said. Unfortunately, most of the accounts were still fake.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a smartphone, a laptop, a gaming device or something else, or even just signing up for an account online, you want to make sure your kids are protected. Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. 7 Internet safety tips.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 19, 2021

Reportedly, their spyware can infect and monitor iPhones, Androids, Macs, PCs, and cloud accounts. Using Internet scanning we identified more than 750 websites linked to Candiru’s spyware infrastructure. Candiru has made efforts to obscure its ownership structure, staffing, and investment partners.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

DNT (disabled by default) is part of Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Total Security, and Kaspersky Security Cloud. That service, too, accounts for a fairly large share of DNT detections across the world. 100% in each case represents the total number of DNT detections triggered by all 25 tracking services. The Middle East.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 20, 2022

Such scams may arrive via email, SMS, or social media. Make sure you lock your accounts behind two-factor authentication (2FA). Refrain from posting on social media about your vacation. The post Internet Safety Month: 7 tips for staying safe online while on vacation appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Infamous cyber opsattributed to Russia-backed hackers fall into a pattern that’s worth noting: • C yber a ttack s on Estonia (2007) Websites of Estonian banks, media outlets and government bodies get knocked down in a dispute over a Soviet-era war memorial. • The wider context is all too easy to overlook. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports. Hackers count on it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Spanish National Police has arrested eight alleged members of a crime organization who were able to steal money from the bank accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2021

Passwords are a hot topic on social media at the moment, due to the re-emergence of a discussion about good password management practices. There’s one password management tool which experiences more than its fair share of derision—the oft-maligned Internet password book. Some include online syncing alongside web browser extensions.

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