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Meta subsidiaries must pay $14m over misleading data collection disclosure

Malwarebytes

Meta has run into yet another bout of court related issues—two subsidiaries have been ordered to pay $14 million regarding undisclosed data collection. Malwarebytes EDR and MDR removes all remnants of ransomware and prevents you from getting reinfected. Even so, the fines keep coming. Get a free trial below.

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Power Generator in South Africa hit with DroxiDat and Cobalt Strike

Security Affairs

The SystemBC platform has been offered for sale on various underground forums at least since 2018 as a “malware as a service,” or MaaS. In the attack discovered by Kaspersky, the proxy backdoor was deployed alongside Cobalt Strike beacons, the researchers believe that this incident was in the initial stages of a ransomware attack.

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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. The report’s findings reveal that email remains the main method of delivering ransomware, banking Trojans, and backdoors. Half as much malware was distributed through links in 2018.

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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. In 2018, U.S.

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Over 100,000 Hackers Exposed in Data from Top Cybercrime Forums

SecureWorld News

Their findings, which spanned data collected between 2018 and 2023, revealed an intriguing reality. This technique, often a precursor to larger cyberattacks such as ransomware, has seen an astonishing 6,000% increase since 2018.

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Who is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka?’

Krebs on Security

In a great many ransomware attacks, the criminals who pillage the victim’s network are not the same crooks who gained the initial access to the victim organization. ” According to their posts on Exploit, Wazawaka has worked with at least two different ransomware affiliate programs, including LockBit.

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After hackers blackmailed their clients, Finnish therapy firm declares bankruptcy

Hot for Security

Vastaamo’s problems first began in 2018, when it discovered that a database of customer details and – most shockingly – notes from therapy sessions had been accessed by hackers. ”