Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

For example, one possible scenario could involve these details being used in malicious emails sent on behalf of the software vendor, managed services providers (MSPs), or IT outsourcing companies with the goal of acquiring sensitive information – in such case, downstream damage may be significant.

Scams 130

Scams Passwords Phishing Accountability 130

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

. “In mid-July 2020, cybercriminals started a vishing campaign—gaining access to employee tools at multiple companies with indiscriminate targeting — with the end goal of monetizing the access.” Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

VPN 355

VPN Social Engineering Authentication Engineering 355

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Compromised website promotes software crack While we identified the compromised ad before the website, we will first describe what happens from the point of view of the site owner to better understand what led to the ad creation in the first place. If that is the case, Dynamic Search Ads may inadvertently promote malicious content.

Malware 109

Malware Software Advertising Hacking 109

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

” Once inside of a target organization, the hackers stole source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data and other information they could use or resell. It also deployed more complex supply chain attacks, in which they would hack a software company and modify the code with malware.

Antivirus 352

Antivirus Hacking Government Software 352

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

An astonishing incident in recent days highlights the risks of widespread dependence on open source software – while also highlighting the free labor corporations benefit from by using open source software. The software industry relies on various interdependent ecosystems and resources. In the case of faker.js financially.

Software 129

Software Accountability Malware Risk 129

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“The incident involved vulnerabilities discovered in MOVEit Transfer, a file transfer software used by our vendor to support services it provides to Flagstar and its related institutions.” It is expected the bad actors may monetize it at the bigger scale by selling personal identifiable information (PII) and payment data.

Data breaches 120

Data breaches Banking Hacking Mobile 120

Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Several domain names tied to Genesis Market , a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today.

Marketing 332

Marketing Passwords Cybercrime Banking 332

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 19, 2021

How can you ensure that your company is complying with its contractual obligations around the use of third-party software? Moreover, how can you be sure that those software assets are being properly utilized? As we explained in our previous blog post, a license is what grants a customer the right to use a particular piece of software.

Software 71

Software Marketing 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you are a vendor utilizing an ML model as part of your software offering, you need to be extra careful to protect your ML model from attacks. One attack is a classic software copy attack. In this case, the real risk is not just making a copy, it’s the ability to run the software without a license.

Encryption 62

Encryption Engineering Software Mobile 62

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

Phishing is the most prevalent method, and this analysis will focus on phishing tactics and the monetization value chain of stolen credit card information. One residential proxy service popular among Chinese fraudsters is “911,” which is built using software distributed under the guise of a free VPN service.

Phishing 67

Phishing Social Engineering Authentication eCommerce 67

Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Microleaves claims its proxy software is installed with user consent, but data exposed in the breach shows the service has a lengthy history of being supplied with new proxies by affiliates incentivized to distribute the software any which way they can — such as by secretly bundling it with other titles. .”

Advertising 204

Advertising Software Computers and Electronics Internet 204

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Threat actors have primarily used malspam as an infection vector to drop MetaStealer as well as cracked software via stolen YouTube accounts, but it was at least once previously seen in a malvertising campaign. Stealers can serve multiple purposes but tend to revolve around items that criminals can easily monetize.

Accountability 91

Accountability Malware Ransomware Software 91

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you are a vendor utilizing an ML model as part of your software offering, you need to be extra careful to protect your ML model from attacks. One attack is a classic software copy attack. In this case, the real risk is not just making a copy, it’s the ability to run the software without a license.

Encryption 62

Encryption Engineering Software Mobile 62

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you are a vendor utilizing an ML model as part of your software offering, you need to be extra careful to protect your ML model from attacks. One attack is a classic software copy attack. In this case, the real risk is not just making a copy, it’s the ability to run the software without a license.

Encryption 62

Encryption Engineering Software Mobile 62

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 23, 2021

At Sentinel Insights 2021, the Thales flagship software monetization conference, industry-leading experts shared their insights on why and how innovative software licensing and packaging—the infrastructure behind the subscription economy—can be rocket fuel for your revenue. . Contact a software monetization expert today ! .

Digital transformation 71

Digital transformation Energy and Utilities Software Marketing 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2023

Study: Software Vendors Needed A 3rd-Party Monetization Solution. Here’s Their Experience Using Thales’ Sentinel divya Thu, 03/23/2023 - 09:50 It’s 2023, and if you are a software provider, you’ll lose market relevance if you do not monetize your software to maximize revenue. Below is a summary of this study.

Software 71

Software Marketing Manufacturing Risk 71

IT Security Guru

AUGUST 30, 2022

Ransomware is malicious software designed to publish or deny a user access to data or a computer system unless they pay a ransom to unlock or decrypt files. Developments in ransomware have also seen the emergence of ransomware as a service (RaaS) allowing cyber criminals to monetize their ransomware on the dark web. government.

Cybersecurity 101

Cybersecurity Phishing Ransomware Marketing 101

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you are a vendor utilizing an ML model as part of your software offering, you need to be extra careful to protect your ML model from attacks. One attack is a classic software copy attack. In this case, the real risk is not just making a copy, it’s the ability to run the software without a license.

Encryption 62

Encryption Engineering Software Mobile 62

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

. “As reflected in court documents, from 2007 through 2019, Brovko worked closely with other cybercriminals to monetize vast troves of data that had been stolen by “botnets,” or networks of infected computers. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

Accountability 109

Accountability Banking Advertising Data collection 109

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

“They can even receive a notification in real time for each new victim, helping them quickly monetize the stolen cards in underground markets.” The software skimmer looks for fields of interest, such as billing, payment, credit card number, expiration, and CVV. ” concluded the post.

Encryption 102

Encryption Advertising Cybercrime Marketing 102

Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

HackerOne acts as a mediator between white hat hackers that find software vulnerabilities, and software vendors who want to know about weaknesses in their products. The vendors let HackerOne take care of the first steps after a vulnerability is discovered in their software. What happened?

Internet 120

Internet Internet Software Accountability 120

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 13, 2021

Piracy in the pandemic – the impact of Covid 19 on unlicensed software usage. With so many employees accessing corporate networks and systems remotely, software piracy has become another security threat that businesses need to face. What is software piracy? Driving revenue through software compliance .

Software 83

Software Marketing Technology 83

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

APIs are software intermediaries that enable two software components to communicate with each other. Secondly, HSMs can also protect code signing keys, to provide confidence that the software or containers deployed are legitimate and from a trusted source. What are APIs?

Encryption 139

Encryption Mobile Government Consumer Protection 139

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.” Prevent intrusions. Detect intrusions. Stop malicious encryption.

Social Engineering 98

Social Engineering Engineering Ransomware Backups 98

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This threat is overtaking money theft and other impacts as a more convenient monetization scheme with much broader industry coverage (not just finance). Security issues with passwords, software vulnerabilities and social engineering combined into an overwhelming majority of initial access vectors during attacks.

Social Engineering 111

Social Engineering Healthcare Ransomware Government 111

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

He worked with other cybercriminals to monetize data which had been stolen through "botnets," which are networks of infected computers. From 2007 through 2019, he worked with other criminal hackers to monetize data that had been stolen through botnets. Who is the Russian cybercriminal?

Cybercrime 52

Cybercrime Banking Accountability Software 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 20, 2022

You might choose to include different features at each tier, more or fewer users, a varying the number of interactions with the software, or a combination of all three. As long as you don’t hard code pricing into your product offering– keeping pricing separate from engineering– the monetization options are endless. Monetize it.

Education 71

Education Small Business Software Accountability 71

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

wpmodder on how to monetize your plugin slides: [link] #wcsea pic.twitter.com/yO88HU973v. In this session, I focused on how to monetize your plugin development skills. I discussed a bit of the history of plugins, the various ways in which a plugin can be monetized, and the methods for growing and sustaining a premium plugin business.

Architecture 98

Architecture Marketing Malware Software 98

Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2023

The participants install software that adds their systems to the proxy-network of the service. To understand how proxyjacking works, we’ll need to explain a few things. There are several legitimate services that pay users to share their surplus Internet bandwidth, such as Peer2Profit and HoneyGain.

Passwords 78

Passwords Internet Internet Software 78

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

One such tactic is to inject malware into a software product the enterprise uses, then use that malware to compromise the devices on which the software is used. In order to secure the software supply chain, it’s important to understand where the potential vulnerabilities lay. Securing the Software Supply Chain.

Software 83

Software Malware Firmware Security Intelligence 83

eSecurity Planet

JULY 27, 2021

. “Whether criminals shift focus to data exfiltration, ransomware, crypto-mining, or a mix of all of the above, one thing has been constant – the increasing desire of criminals to innovate and expand the path to monetization of their trade,” Wade told eSecurity Planet. ” Targeting Microsoft and Linux.

Malware 144

Malware Risk Cryptocurrency Ransomware 144

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 2, 2019

As a result of the combination of these two global leaders in digital security, Thales eSecurity and Gemalto’s Enterprise & Cybersecurity business are joining together as Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing , creating the world leader in cloud, data and software protection.

Digital transformation 83

Digital transformation Software Encryption Accountability 83

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 17, 2023

Exploit Software Vulnerabilities: Cybercriminals can take advantage of security weaknesses in widely used software to gain access to a victim’s system and deploy ransomware. It makes data worthless to intruders since they cannot monetize encrypted data by threatening to publish it.

Ransomware 127

Ransomware Encryption Authentication System Administration 127

Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Hackers aim at collecting login credentials for networks of the target organizations, then they attempt to monetize their efforts by selling access to corporate resources in the cybercrime underground. ” The agencies provide technical details about the attack technique used by cybercriminals.

Social Engineering 126

Social Engineering VPN Phishing Authentication 126

SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

Ransomware is the business of monetizing security holes,” he continued. The supporting technologies use allowlists to control the specific applications permitted to launch within a host environment, which can stop malware and unlicensed or unauthorized software from executing on the network.

Ransomware 112

Ransomware Antivirus Software Technology 112

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 5, 2021

CRN, a brand of the Channel Company, publishes its Partner Program Guide every year as a means for solutions providers to learn more about the partner programs operated by some of the industry’s leading technology companies that offer IT products and services including IT manufacturers, software developers, distributors and more. Encryption.

Encryption 77

Encryption Technology Manufacturing Software 77