Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We’ve been alerted that portions of the PHPBB user table from our forums showed up in a leaked data collection.” ” read a message published on the XKCS forum “The data includes usernames , email addresses, salted, hashed passwords, and in some cases an IP address from the time of registration,”.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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. banks are stiffing account takeover victims. million user accounts earlier this year. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

Data collected in the course of the investigation also reveals some fascinating details that may help explain why these pump skimmers are so lucrative and ubiquitous. Armed with your PIN and debit card data, skimmer thieves or those who purchase stolen cards can clone your card and pull money out of your account at an ATM.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2019

The experts also observed a significant increase in the number of unique bots and trolls (+48%) from the previous day, a circumstance that suggests the involvement of an army of dormant Twitter bot accounts previously created. Data collected by SafeGuard confirm the intensification of the presence of Russian bots on Twitter.

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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. The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. rar archive files.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. Just as it was the case in the second half of 2019, in the first half of this year, online services like ecommerce websites turned out to be the main target of web-phishers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent. A flaw could have allowed hackers to take over any Instagram account in 10 minutes. Mysterious hackers steal data of over 70% of Bulgarians. Sprint revealed that hackers compromised some customer accounts via Samsung site.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Fact: Zynga, the California-based social game developer, suffered a major data breach in 2019 when a malicious actor stole 218 million records belonging to “Words With Friends” players. If you were a victim of the Zynga data breach, you’ve probably changed the password for your account already.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

The technology behind the former (“same device passkey”) is not new: it was originally developed within the FIDO Alliance and first implemented by Google in August 2019 in select flows. This technology behind passkeys allows users to log in to their account using any form of device-based user verification, such as biometrics or a PIN code.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2019

The firings came as a result of a massive data breach which routed through an HVAC contractor’s compromised account. I had the chance to visit with CyberGRX CEO Fred Kneip at RSA 2019 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center last week. When Target fired both its CEO and CIO in 2014, it was a wake-up call for senior management.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

EDR gains visibility on what’s happening on an organization’s endpoints by capturing activity data. Bishop Fox’s report assures that in terms of data collection, they found Illumio’s telemetry to be especially useful to cover some EDR blind spots, where the preconfigured EDR alerts did not properly detect attacker activities. “In

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 6, 2023

Microsoft is counting the cost of privacy violations, with $20m in fines related to illegal data collection from children’s Xbox accounts. Microsoft was holding on to that data even in situations where the account didn’t complete the registration process.

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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? Rapid7: Company Background. For InsightIDR, the standard plan starts at $5.61

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

Payment and personal data of thousands of online shoppers from Asia, Europe, and the Americas have been stolen. To access their servers for stolen data collection and their JS-sniffers’ control, they always used VPN to hide their real location and identity. million in H2 2108-H1 2019 year-on-year. and «N» (23 y.o.)

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

An example of this can be traced back to June 2019, when an unauthorized user gained access to Quest Diagnostic’s sensitive data through a billing vendor by the name of the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA). The culprit gained access to sensitive data of 11.9

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 2, 2023

Children uner 13 are, in theory, banned from using YouTube, and are supposed to use YouTube Kids instead, which is stricter about data collection. Child data is a prominent topic for Google. Back in 2019, YouTube was fined $170m due to the collection of children’s data without their parent’s consent.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Experts also noticed that attackers were exploiting CVE-2019-1458 for privilege escalation and remote scheduled tasks to execute their backdoor. Attackers also used legitimate versions of WinRAR appear for data exfiltration and batch scripts to automate the data collection process.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2022

UEBA has been growing for some time, and a 2022 Market Data Forecast report predicts its global market size to grow from $890.7 million in 2019 to $1.1 Compromised employee account login information was also the costliest infection vector for enterprises. Transparency is key whenever you’re collecting user data.

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Hacker Combat

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Other measures were also being implemented to for effective and thorough data collection and analysis. The security and defense departments began noticing anomalies from 2019, which was just 3 years after the island’s elections. The hackers were said to have had access to nearly 6000 email accounts.

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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.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Certain tech giants recently started adding tools to their ecosystems that are meant to improve the data collection transparency. Our last report, published in 2019, took a close look at Google’s trackers: DoubleClick, Google AdSense, Google Analytics, and YouTube Analytics.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The traffic originated from a suspicious library loaded into the memory of a domain controller server and registered as a Windows password filter, which has access to plain-text passwords to administrative accounts. MagicScroll is a sophisticated malicious framework that was first detected by Palo Alto’s Unit 42 in 2019.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to FTC findings in 2019, government impostor fraud was the most-reported type of fraud. Fraud.net offers fraud management and prevention solutions for multiple different types of fraud, such as synthetic identity fraud, account takeover, business email compromise (BEC), call center fraud, and more. million in losses.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). Phishing attacks topped the list of all cybercrimes, totaling 241,342 incidents – more than double the 2019 total of 114,702 – and causing losses of more than U.S. $54 billion in losses from 19,369 reported complaints. 54 million.

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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. According to Kaspersky statistics, those three countries had held leading positions since 2019, all with an increase in detected stalkerware infections.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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. Also worth mentioning is the attack against a German bank in 2019, which registered €1.5 Initial infection vector.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 4, 2021

Data privacy, a concept that has been brewing for many decades, was thrust to the main stage with one of the largest global economies—the EU accounts for approximately 15% of international trade —adopting a robust and extensive data protection regulation with presumably real bite. HIPAA, GLBA, etc.).

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 30, 2024

One of the biggest pitfalls of BOFHound’s prior usage strategies was the total absence of user session and local group membership data. Targeting the lab’s Server 2019 host ( OXENFURT ) with the BOF (where our simulated initial access user has admin rights) reveals several users logged in, either interactively or via a service (Figure 2).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

Long-term search capabilities for slower threats spanning historical data. Access to 350+ cloud connectors for data collection and API-based cloud integrations. A screenshot of the User Account Management dashboard on LogPoint. Cloud-native platform with on-demand scalability and SaaS subscription pricing.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

On July 21, 2024, denizens of the cybercrime community Breachforums released more than 4 terabytes of data they claimed was stolen from nationalpublicdata.com, a Florida-based company that collects data on consumers and processes background checks. In 2019, malicious hackers stole data on more than 1.5

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

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. “I used to steal their QIWI accounts with up to $500k in them,” Wazawaka recalled. The Weblancer account says Wazawaka is currently 33 years old.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

These heads of state and captains of industry even coined a buzz phrase, “stakeholder capitalism,” to acknowledge the need to take into account the interests of the economically disadvantaged and politically powerless citizens of the world as they bull ahead with commercial and political uses of AI.“AI AI was prominent on their agenda.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

8526, 2019-20 Reg. 2019); rather, he highlighted some of the proposed data privacy law's attributes. 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.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

.” US JOB SERVICES KrebsOnSecurity was alerted to the data exposure by Patrick Barry , chief information officer at Charlotte, NC based Rebyc Security. The score is only one of many criteria taken into account for employment. “We’ve never told anyone we were the US Postal Service,” Plott continued.

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