Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Resecurity identified one of the largest investment fraud networks, tracked as Digital Smoke, by size and volume of operations. by using their brands and market reputation to defraud consumers. and other regions. and the U.K billion to scams. Law Enforcement in Q4 of 2022.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

Norton parent firm, Gen Digital, was the victim of a ransomware attack that exploited the recently disclosed MOVEit zero-day vulnerability. Gen Digital Inc. The company owns multiple brands, including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, and CCleaner. ” the company tolds Securityweek.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Obrela Security Industries recently launched their H1 2022 Digital Universe Study, which provides detailed insight into this year’s security and threat landscape. What can companies do to protect themselves? . Emerging use cases . After analysing the data and devices, Obrela found new incident cases, including: .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2021

Threat hunting and adversarial cyber intelligence company Group-IB published a comprehensive analysis of fraud cases on a global scale. For example, a scheme of fake branded social media accounts (typical of the financial sector) affected over 500 fake accounts per bank on average in 2020. million in one year .

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2024

As is often the case these days, it turns out that the cyberincident was very likely a ransomware attack that included a data breach. Ransomware operators typically steal data from the compromised systems to use as extra leverage against the victim. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Take your time.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2021

Group-IB Digital Risk Protection (DRP) analysts have found evidence of continuing offensive against at least seven large Indonesian financial institutions. Less is more, this is something fraudsters have been tireless in repeating,” comments Group-IB head of Digital Risk Protection in APAC Ilia Rozhnov.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Residential Proxies vs. Datacenter Proxies: this blog post examines the contours of each type and provides info on how to choose the perfect proxy option In the robust landscape of the digital era, our need for privacy, security, and accessibility on the internet has never been more acute. It really boils down to your specific needs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

Group-IB Digital Risk Protection (DRP) analysts have found evidence proving that users in over 80 countries in Europe, Asia, the MEA region, North and South America might have been affected. and used Facebook Messenger official logo as their profile picture. Image 1 Facebook ad promoting a Facebook Messenger update.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

If you’re running a business online, few things can be as disruptive or destructive to your brand as someone stealing your company’s domain name and doing whatever they wish with it. Even so, most major Web site owners aren’t taking full advantage of the security tools available to protect their domains from being hijacked.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

As businesses increasingly rely on digital communication channels, cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in email, SMS, and voice communications to launch sophisticated phishing attacks. Microsoft brands, including OneDrive and Sharepoint, along with crypto exchange Binance and illegal streaming services, were targeted the most.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2023

During this period, APIs were also used to enable communication between a mainframe and other systems, such as printers. This marked the first instance that commerce and data-sharing were openly available for a variety of different use cases. Since then, APIs have evolved far beyond the e-commerce use case.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Following news that noted fashion brand Guess suffered a data breach in which personal information may have been stolen, cybersecurity experts on Tuesday said that retailers should take this case as motivation to lock down their cyber defenses. A Guess retail store. N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Threat actors are using decoy websites to trick users into downloading malware. Malicious ad Threat actors continue to impersonate well-known brands via sponsored search results. In the web traffic seen below, we can see that the threat actor uses a number of redirects to evade detection.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 26, 2023

A digital rights and privacy organization has filed a complaint against software company TeleSign for gathering and selling information on millions of mobile phone users. nyob is an Austrian based digital right organization that focusses on commercial privacy issues on a European level.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

In today’s digital economy, everyone is experiencing record evolution. Today, in business, it’s all about working with digital natives – customers, partner companies, and employees – building trust and implementing advanced solutions to enhance their experience. The digital world has a skills shortage. Could it get any worse?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Data helps digital businesses make meaningful decisions and fast-track their growth in a global market so that companies that are skilled at harvesting data regularly and consistently tend to grow faster than those that only involve data scantily in making decisions. This is important to keep brands, their data, and systems safe at all times.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 22, 2023

5 Ways CIAM Ensures a Seamless and Secure Customer Experience divya Thu, 03/23/2023 - 05:27 In today's digital-first world, providing customers with trustworthy, hassle-free interactions is critical to business success. At the same time, consumers want to manage their money on demand seamlessly and have secure experiences while doing so.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 30, 2021

Instagram is a big part of the lives of many people, who use it daily to interact with friends and family. Phony brands and knock-offs. Brand impersonators often buy likes and followers to create a seemingly legitimate page and bait Instagrammers with exclusive or limited-time deals for high-end merchandise. Romance scams.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2022

Keeping information secure from any theft activities in the digital world is necessary. But unfortunately, with everything going online, the digital world seems to be just as dangerous as the real world, especially when storing your personal information. . Cloud data protection . GDPR and CPRA compliance .

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Malwarebytes

JULY 20, 2022

However, every now and again we see a campaign that goes mainstream and targets some of the world’s top brands. Case in point, we recently uncovered a malvertising chain abusing Google’s ad network to redirect visitors to an infrastructure of tech support scams. Traffic flow – case 1 : throwaway domains.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2023

Hundreds of drivers and top car brands, including Cadillac, Ferrari, and Porsche, are competing in the prestigious race with three stages left to complete. However, an incident where personal data is disclosed without authorisation is a violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). million files.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2023

madhav Tue, 06/20/2023 - 06:29 Numerous breaches and malicious malware attacks have used fraudulent code signing certificates to cause significant damage of the certificate owner’s reputation and business. Cloud‐base key generation and protection solution with the following requirements: a.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 29, 2018

As the volume of both card-based payments and digital payments continue to grow significantly year-on-year, the importance of securing sensitive card data (and in particular the primary account number or PAN) has never been a more critical and challenging task. Different tokenization solutions to protect against different risks.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Related: What Cisco’s buyout of Splunk really signals We’re in the midst of driving towards a dramatically scaled-up and increasingly connected digital ecosystem. This is a useful way to look at it. Something simply must be done to slow, and ultimately reverse, attack surface expansion. LW: Anything else?

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2023

Popular search terms Malvertising, or the use of ads to deliver malicious content, is not something new. Yet, over the years various threat actors have used it for different purposes. In order to maximize our chances of identifying the campaign we used a real machine and prepared with a specific profile.

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Cytelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

One such concerning case involves the MOVEit Managed File Transfer (MFT) software, which has fallen victim to active exploitation by CL0P ransomware. Additionally, amidst these challenging times, CYPFER, a leading cybersecurity firm, has emerged as a trusted partner in protecting businesses from such cyber threats. What can you do?

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Identity IQ

JUNE 15, 2021

The automaker said an unauthorized third party obtained personal information about customers and interested buyers from a vendor used for digital sales and marketing by its Audi Volkswagen brands and some U.S. The sensitive data was comprised of driver license numbers in more than 95% of cases. and Canadian dealers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The MASQ tool could be used by attackers to emulate device fingerprints thus allowing them to bypass fraud protection controls. Cybercriminals are exploiting weaknesses in modern anti-fraud solutions by spoofing device fingerprints used by legitimate participants of online-banking, e-commerce and online-service transactions.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

IdentityIQ is the flagship brand of IDIQ ® , one of the fastest-growing industry leaders in credit monitoring and identity theft protection. They are known for providing industry-leading identity theft protection and credit report monitoring. We also guide you through how to cancel IdentityIQ services. What Is IdentityIQ?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Going global or even expanding your operations further afield in your geography introduces a host of new digital risks. These risks require proactive and methodical strategizing to overcome if you are to protect your assets, data, and reputation. In Europe, there is the widespread presence of GDPR legislation, while in the U.S.,

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Digital Shadows

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today we’re announcing the release of SocialMonitor, an industry-leading capability to better protect executives from social media impersonation. Executives Under Fire In our recently-published Social Media Monitoring Solutions Guide , we outlined some of the most common use cases for social media monitoring.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 17, 2023

Digital certificates are a critical component in any cybersecurity strategy. They help mitigate organizations' ever-growing risk exposure by establishing digital trust and acting as a barrier to unauthorized access, fraudulent online activities, system outages, and data breaches. Lack of centralized visibility and control. 

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 27, 2023

In today’s digital world, it’s no surprise that cyberattacks are becoming more frequent and intense. In doing so, they will have continuous protection from external and internal threats. However, the IT landscape is changing so quickly that more audits often amount to better protection for an organization.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

Due to our dependence on the internet for digital transformation, most people suffer from the risks of cyberattacks. Some of them use spam which is in the form of unsolicited and inappropriate messages. They even caused great damage to large brands like Honda Motors, which had to shut their operations down for some time.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it took action against online customized merchandise platform CafePress over allegations that it failed to secure consumers’ sensitive personal data and covered up a major breach. The passwords are said to have been protected by “weak encryption”, an absolute security no-no.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 6, 2023

More often than not, that means impersonating familiar brands. Scammers love global brands like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and UPS because they are instantly recognisable, their logos and styling are easy to copy, and people are used to receiving emails from them. address the scammer used? That's what didn't go right.

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