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Head Mare and Twelve join forces to attack Russian entities

SecureList

This confirms the trend of hacktivists exploiting trusted relationships (T1199 Trusted Relationship and T1078 Valid Accounts). Our telemetry data revealed domain controllers still running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Standard x64 or, as in the aforementioned incidents, Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 used for email.

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Changes in WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy

Schneier on Security

In 2016, WhatsApp gave users a one-time ability to opt out of having account data turned over to Facebook. Some of the data that WhatsApp collects includes: User phone numbers. Some of the data that WhatsApp collects includes: User phone numbers. Diagnostic data collected from app logs.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

The 911 user interface, as it existed when the service first launched in 2016. net available at the Wayback Machine shows that in 2016 this domain was used for the “ ExE Bucks ” affiliate program, a pay-per-install business which catered to people already running large collections of hacked computers or compromised websites. .

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. banks are stiffing account takeover victims.

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New Version of Meduza Stealer Released in Dark Web

Security Affairs

Altogether, Meduza makes a great competitor to Azorult , Redline , Racoon , and Vidar Stealer used by cybercriminals for account takeover (ATO), online-banking theft, and financial fraud. Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

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NEW TECH: CyberGRX seeks to streamline morass of third-party cyber risk assessments

The Last Watchdog

The firings came as a result of a massive data breach which routed through an HVAC contractor’s compromised account. In 2016, Jay Leek – then CISO at the Blackstone investment firm, and now a CyberGRX board member — was collaborating with CSOs at several firms Blackstone had invested in when a common theme came up.

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Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security Affairs

In 2017 there were ten times more than in 2016. percent of all the data collected, followed by TP-Link that accounted for 9.07%. In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017.

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