Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

Namely, the ability to route one’s malicious traffic through a computer that is geographically close to the consumer whose credit card they’re about to charge at some website, or whose bank account they’re about to empty. Others are fairly opaque about their data collection and retention policies. ”

VPN 290

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. In 2018, their number grew to 3.6%, while in H1 2019 saw an unusual rise of up to 27.8%.

Ransomware 71

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The fine covers the period from July 2018, when the “Law on the Processing of Personal Data (Personal Data Act)” was established, until April 2020, when Grindr changed the consent solution. Nevertheless, this is the highest fee to date from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority.

Advertising 97

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

link ) was posted on Pastebin , the hacker claims to have compromised user’s email and also accused ProtonMail of sending user’s decrypted data to American servers. AmFearLiathMor also wrote that ProtonMail hasn’t configured the mandatory Subresource Integrity ( SRI ) allowing tampering and data collection.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Hong Kong, 16.11.2018 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, presented the findings of its latest Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report at the FinTech Security Conference in Hong Kong organized by Binary Solutions Limited in partnership with Group-IB. Attacks on Crypto.

Cybercrime 88

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russia’s financial sector. million (2.96 million (2.96

Cyber Attacks 87

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Group-IB Threat Intelligence continuously detects and analyses data uploaded to card shops all over the world,” – said Dmitry Shestakov, Head of Group-IB ?ybercrime According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, 1.8 ybercrime research unit.

Banking 100

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Reconnaissance Reconnaissance is the starting point of Volt Typhoon’s cyber campaign, characterized by thorough planning and data collection. LotL emerged in 2018 and became a popular strategy among malicious actors due to its effectiveness in ensuring covert persistence and discovery evasion.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

This information was first made public by experts from Group-IB’s Brand Protection team at the CyberCrimeCon 2018 international cybersecurity conference. Scammers create fake websites of known brands, fraudulent promotional campaigns, and fake accounts on social media. billion in 2017, compared to $1.2 billion in 2016.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Rapid7 combines threat intelligence , security research, data collection, and analytics in its comprehensive Insight platform, but how does its detection and response solution – InsightIDR – compare to other cybersecurity solutions? On Gartner Peer Insights, Rapid7 has nearly 700 reviews in a handful of solution categories.

DNS 106

DNS Technology Cybersecurity Data collection 106

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

Together, CWRU and the FBI were able to identify that an IP address with which the malware was communicating had also been used to access the alumni email account of a man called Phillip Durachinsky. The IP address was linked to the malware using data collected by CWRU, Malwarebytes, and AT&T.)

Malware 83

Malware Passwords Identity Theft Data collection 83

SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In late 2018, we discovered a sophisticated espionage framework, which we dubbed “ TajMahal “ It consists of two different packages, self-named “Tokyo” and “Yokohama”, and is capable of stealing a variety of data, including data from CDs burnt on the victim’s machine and documents sent to the printer queue.

Malware 141

Malware Computers and Electronics Telecommunications Encryption 141

SecureList

MARCH 13, 2024

Global detection figures: affected users Using global and regional statistics, Kaspersky has been able to compare data collected in 2023 with the previous four years. Diagram 1 below shows how this number varied year to year starting in 2018. Do not share your online account passwords with anyone.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

Jared Polis, at the time Colorado’s governor-elect, speaks at a 2018 election night rally. Of course, it can be tricky to know precisely what to teach when there are so many different privacy regulations to account for. The data is what is going to drive this,” said Rakoski. Photo by Rick T. Wilking/Getty Images).

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Education Security Awareness Data privacy Social Engineering 109

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

A credible threat actor is offering access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives for $100 to $1500 per account. Access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives is available on the Exploit.in for $100 to $1500 per account. Exploit.in ” reported ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Accountability Cybercrime Hacking Retail 107

Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

It even collects what it calls " shadow profiles " -- data about you even if you're not a Facebook user. This data is combined with other surveillance data the company buys, including health and financial data. Collecting and saving less of this data would be a strong indicator of a new direction for the company.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

BlueNoroff developed an elaborate phishing campaign that targeted startups and distributed malware for stealing all crypto in the account tied to the device. It presents a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 ), which provide an overview of the latest trends across the threat landscape.

Banking 71

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Mobile 71

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, one website offered users to obtain a COVID vaccination certificate by entering their British National Health Service (NHS) account credentials. Scammers abused legitimate survey services by creating polls in the name of various organization to profit from victims’ personal, including sensitive, data.

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Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 91

SecureWorld News

MAY 4, 2021

Three years ago, on May 25, 2018, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. California led the charge, adopting the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), followed by revisions to the CCPA in November 2020 with the ballot initiative, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

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Data privacy Data collection Government Accountability 70

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The site asks you for some personal information when you create the account which it then stores in a database. Who now owns that data? This is an important question because it drives the way organisations then treat that data. Data Collection Should be Minimised, Not Maximisation. The cat site?

Data breaches 133

Data breaches Data collection B2B Mobile 133

Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

JavaScript-sniffers (JS-sniffers) targeting ecommerce websites is a type of malicious JavaScript code, designed to steal customer payment and personal data such as credit card numbers, names, addresses, logins, phone numbers, and credentials from payment systems, and etc. Group-IB has been tracking the GetBilling JS-sniffer family since 2018.

Cybercrime 82

Cybercrime Marketing eCommerce Mobile 82

SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This archive is discreetly hosted on legitimate websites, cleverly disguised as firmware binaries for enigmatic devices labeled “m100” The Bitbucket repository was created on June 21, 2018, under the account of Julie Heilman, and it remains the sole repository associated with this profile.

Malware 107

Malware DNS Encryption Cryptocurrency 107

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

Period-tracking app users scrambled to find the most secure app online , and one period-tracking app maker promised to encrypt user data so that, even if law enforcement made a request for their data, the data would be unintelligible. In August, the company confirmed a data breach that affected 5.4 million.

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Data privacy Engineering Encryption Internet 67

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As we noted in 2018, there are many similarities between their ATM and PoS versions. With the patch in place, the malware collects the data from TRACK2, such as the account number and expiration date, in addition to other cardholder information needed to perform fraudulent transactions. Initial infection vector.

Malware 96

Malware Banking Software Encryption 96

Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2023

Another employee noticed and reported it to their supervisor who allegedly told them that it was "normal" for an engineer to view so many accounts. However, Ring continued to allow hundreds of other employees and third-party contractors access to all video data, regardless of whether they actually needed it in order to perform their jobs.

Engineering 98

Engineering Data collection Government Accountability 98

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

In 2018, Wazawaka registered a slew of domains spoofing the real domain for the Hydra dark web market. In 2014, Wazawaka confided to another crime forum member via private message that he made good money stealing accounts from drug dealers on these marketplaces. The Weblancer account says Wazawaka is currently 33 years old.

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DDOS Accountability Cybercrime Ransomware 248

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

where fraudsters impersonated a trusted business partner , manipulat ing the CEO into transferring $243,000 to the scammers’ account. . Deepfakes first came into prominence in 2018 when a developer adapted AI techniques to create software that can swap one person’s face for another.

Technology 93

Technology Authentication Media Accountability 93

Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2019

” In April 2018, Akamai reported that threat actors compromised 65,000 home routers by exploiting vulnerabilities in Universal Plug’N’Play (UPnP) , experts tracked the botnet as UPnProxy. In December 2018 the company provided an update to its initial analysis revealing a disconcerting scenario, UPnProxy is still up and running.

Cyber Attacks 85

Cyber Attacks Advertising Firmware Data collection 85

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

To start, the governor stated that the law will mandate companies collecting information on large numbers of New Yorkers disclose the purposes of any data collection and collect only data needed for those purposes. New Yorkers will have the right to access, control, and erase data collected about them.

Data privacy 87

Data privacy Data collection Data breaches Cybersecurity 87

Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2021

Detailed credentials for more than 21 million mobile VPN app users were swiped and advertised for sale online last week, offered by a cyber thief who allegedly stole user data collected by the VPN apps themselves. The data leak of SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, and ChatVPN. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) February 28, 2021.

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VPN Passwords Internet Internet 145

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In the world of cybersecurity, the path of least resistance has consistently been shown to be the human element, specifically user accounts with enough access privileges or credentials for the cybercriminal to execute their plan. Compromised employee account login information was also the costliest infection vector for enterprises.

Advertising 118

Advertising Cybersecurity DDOS Data breaches 118

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

Unlimited cloud accounts and users, and monthly down to hourly cloud scans Data retention options between 30 days and 18 months Business hours support and compliance reports for GDPR , PCI, HIPAA, and more Container scanning with CI/CD and registry integrations Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) security scanning for Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.

Penetration Testing 101

Penetration Testing Software Risk Firewall 101

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2019

Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on May 25th last year, data protection has become a very hot topic. On May 22, 2019, the European Commission published an infographic on compliance with and enforcement of the GDPR from May 2018 to May 2019 and it is clear that a lot of work still needs to be done.

Risk 97

Risk Encryption Accountability Government 97

Spinone

JULY 3, 2020

and you interact with their data in any way – you fall under the GDPR. You can remember the massive story with Facebook’s misuse of customer information in 2018; other big players like British Airways and Marriott International have also suffered from €200 million and €99 million GDPR fines , respectively.

Data breaches 52

Data breaches Marketing Data collection Antivirus 52

Elie

APRIL 23, 2018

the talk I gave at RSA 2018. This struggle to collect abusive content accurately exists all across the board whether it is for reviews, comments, fake accounts or network attacks. Collecting ground truth with honeypots : Honeypots. controlled settings ensure you that they will only collect attacks. slides here.

Phishing 90

Phishing Data collection Accountability Architecture 90

Elie

AUGUST 5, 2018

This post provides an overview of the impact of the Twitter 2018 accounts purge through the lens of its impact on 16k of Twitter’s most popular accounts. Overall, we found that on average, popular accounts lost 2.8 In terms of raw numbers, this represents a collective loss of over half a billion followers (546M).

Accountability 90

Accountability Internet Internet Data collection 90

Elie

AUGUST 5, 2018

This post provides an overview of the impact of the Twitter 2018 accounts purge through the lens of its impact on 16k of Twitter’s most popular accounts. Overall, we found that on average, popular accounts lost 2.8 In terms of raw numbers, this represents a collective loss of over half a billion followers (546M).

Accountability 90

Accountability Internet Internet Data collection 90