Hot for Security

MARCH 9, 2021

In case you’ve missed the news – hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Exchange Server systems worldwide are thought to have been compromised by hackers, who exploited zero-day vulnerabilities to steal emails. The first thing to ask yourself is which flavour of Microsoft Exchange your company uses. What’s going on?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 2, 2020

The criminal group behind the REvil ransomware enterprise has begun auctioning off sensitive data stolen from companies hit by its malicious software. A partial screenshot from the REvil ransomware group’s Dark Web blog. It sets the minimum deposit at $5,000 in virtual currency, with the starting price of $50,000.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

. “Snatch threat actors have been observed purchasing previously stolen data from other ransomware variants in an attempt to further exploit victims into paying a ransom to avoid having their data released on Snatch’s extortion blog,” the FBI/CISA alert reads. The Russian mobile phone number associated with that tele2[.]ru

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With more than 60 million terminals and service provided in over 120 countries, many people around the world have used the devices by this China-headquartered company while shopping—knowingly or not. WOKV News in Jacksonville, Florida, broke the story that FBI, DHS, and NCIS agents raided three of PAX's American warehouses.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

LinkedIn has announced a new set of security features that will help verify user identity, remove fraudulent accounts, and boost authenticity, according to an official blog post from the company. To combat these threat actors, LinkedIn has announced three new features.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

The company also issued two advisories, one of them addressing a Microsoft Office flaw that was disclosed but unpatched in last month’s update. Installing the latest Office and Windows updates, the company noted, “stops the attack chain leading to the Windows Search security feature bypass vulnerability ( CVE-2023-36884 ).”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. Using the Shodan search engine the experts discovered three IPs associated with misconfigured Elasticsearch clusters. ” reads a blog post published by HackenProof. ” continues the blog post.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

Data privacy breaches expose sensitive details about customers, staff, and company financials. Compounding issues is the nature of threat response: it’s reactive, searching for known threats, while cybercriminals regularly devise new, surreptitious methods to avoid detection.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

The NB65 hacking group, since the beginning of the invasion, the collective joint the forces with Anonymous and hit multiple Russian targets, including All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) and the Russian Space Agency ‘Roscosmos’. SSK Gazregion LLC is going to have a rough Sunday. Why CTI is fun?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. More searching points to a Yehuo user on gamerbbs[.]cn More searching points to a Yehuo user on gamerbbs[.]cn Research on blazefire[.]com

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The past year was packed with major events that affected the nation’s economy, from the earnings of the largest companies down to the wallets of individual consumers. As the end of the year is approaching, we’re compiling our most searched and read topics of 2021. We deliver advice and news directly to your inbox.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 25, 2022

The Python package ctx, which averages over 20,000 downloads per week, was compromised on the Python Package Index (PyPI), according to both forum and social media posts and a bevy of news reports. . Without it, companies simply won’t be able to develop both at speed and securely,” Judd says. What can organizations do? UTM Medium.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2023

UK’s NCSC explains in a blog that an LLM is an algorithm trained on a large amount of text-based data, typically scraped from the open internet. Another risk, which increases as more tech companies produce LLMs, is that online queries may be hacked, leaked, or, more likely, made publicly accessible. What are generative AI tools?

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This information is then packaged and sold to companies selling all stripe of products and services to presidential campaigns and the state-sponsored attackers who hack presidential campaigns. A Google-friendly site means higher search engine rankings, cheaper ad clicks and higher all-around traffic.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

In the era of bots and fake news, fingerprinting is supposed to work seamlessly. This is why you often see ads for hotels in a specific location after performing a search for holiday destinations. He advises data providers and large companies on in-house data acquisition solutions.

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BH Consulting

APRIL 18, 2024

If passed, the legislation would restrict the kinds of personal data companies can collect, keep, use, and share. Separately, Google has promised to delete billions of search records after its incognito mode turned out to be anything but. Links we liked Lessons learned from three of the worst unpatched flaws.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The news was first reported by the popular investigator Brian Krebs who was contacted by a researcher who discovered the issue. The researchers, who asked to remain anonymous, reported the flaw to the USPS more than a year ago, but the company ignored him. ” reads the post on KrebsonSecurity blog. ” continues Krebs.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2021

In an a blog post, the company explains what it tried to do and how Facebook banned their ads. Signal is a privacy-focused messaging app that has picked up a lot of new users recently, after rival WhatsApp made an unpopular change to its privacy policy. Some examples. Image courtesy of Signal. The contrast.

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Hackology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The emergence of Kamran spyware, targeting users of a regional news website, has raised concerns among cybersecurity experts. Distributed through a possible watering-hole attack on the Hunza News website , the spyware prompts users to grant permissions, allowing access to sensitive data.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. biz , which frequently blogs about security weaknesses in popular malware tools. “Sodin” and “Sodinokibi”).

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity,” Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent holding company, told Bloomberg News in Davos. Pichai was alluding to how AI has already impacted production and given corporations a glimpse of its upside potential to drive economic growth to dizzying new heights.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

They then used sponsored search results to trick users into downloading the malicious extension. However, state sponsored actors regularly attack ports and vessels to cause operational disruption, while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spurred increasing attacks on railway companies.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The REvil ransomware group's "Happy Blog" where it publishes stolen data, suddenly went offline. NBC News did a search and found this comment from the Conti ransomware gang: “First, an attack against some servers, which the U.S. There is clearly more to come in this ransomware fight and SecureWorld News will cover it.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

November Product Release News November marks an important milestone in the execution of a rich product roadmap for HYAS Insight. Yes, I know it is a chunky dataset but the intention - for now - is for this to serve as a repository of recent malware intelligence you can search against and pivot into.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 6, 2021

You can see some aspects of web control already offered by Google in this blog from 2019 : My Activity : Look at searches, websites visited, videos watched. It’s sort of like your browser history, but on a grand Google scale, with options to disable aspects of search or location. Slow and steady wins the race?

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

The biggest secrets seem to be the underlying real-world information: which particular company MONEYROCKET is; what software vulnerability EGOTISTICALGIRAFFE—really, I am not making that one up—is; how TURBINE works. You become convinced that only the insiders know what’s really going on, because the news media is so often wrong.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 4, 2023

In this blog, we explore the ins and outs of utility payment reporting, including how it improves your credit and how to sign up for it. Reportable Utility Bill Payments The good news is that several different utility bill payments can be reported to credit bureaus, which gives you more opportunities to enhance your credit profile.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

This blog will highlight the most recent changes to the ransomware and how Conti improved file encryption, introduced techniques to better evade security software, and streamlined the ransom payment process. We've downloaded a pack of your internal data and are ready to publish it on our news website if you do not respond.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This information has such value that it has become the currency for service providers such as search engines and social media providers. Breaches of data are no longer the big news items they once were; they happen so often that it they are no longer deemed newsworthy. In this blog post I will discuss just a few of these insights.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The SecureWorld News team has been watching small victories slowly pile up as authorities around the world crack down on malicious hackers. The CEO for the company admitted to paying the ransom , all $4.4 The hackers targeted over 100 companies, most of which were in the U.S. We've all heard it 1000 times. Ukraine, and Interpol.

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Webroot

JULY 8, 2021

That’s bad news in itself, but what’s often overlooked are the additional ways – beyond payments victims may or may not choose to make– victims pay for these attacks. Specifically, 70 percent of companies that didn’t pay a ransom were able to recover their data within a business day, compared to 46 percent that did. Download the eBook.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A blog post published earlier this year posed the question "Is Grammarly a keylogger?" Every time you type a search in a browser, what you type is sent off to the search engine of your choosing (most likely Google). I have personally had people reference that post and ask me to add detection of Grammarly to Malwarebytes.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

This could include malware that antivirus and security solutions can’t detect; a secure internet connection to prevent tracing; initial access to victim companies’ networks or mailboxes (which is also key to many ransomware infections); effective social engineering content; fraudulent content hosting, and more.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

Officially announced today via press release and blog post, Workbench is a creation of Mitre Engenuity’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense, with contributions from Center members AttackIQ, HCA Healthcare, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and Verizon. Mitre exclusively shared the news with SC Media in advance of its official announcement.

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Herjavec Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

”if your company is on that?list,?you La Martiniquaise France’s second-largest spirit and alcoholic beverage company Food, Beverage, and Tobacco France. New Coo-operative Inc. Equity Transition A transportation and logistics company Transportation America. A member owned agricultural cooperative. 01, 2020). . [4]

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And when it comes to hiring security roles, it’s always worth asking the question: are you looking for a qualification above all, or is your search broad enough to find smart, motivated people who can gain the skills over time? Every month we send out the latest cybersecurity and data protection news, trends and advice from around the globe.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2021

This blog post is divided into four parts: Introduction : provides an overview of what happened. Good news: The variant discussed in this blog does not appear to persist : in other words, after a reboot, its process will not be active anymore, at least for the variant discussed in this blog post. Detection. .

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