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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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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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. su between 2016 and 2019. Both of these identities were active on the crime forum fl.l33t[.]su

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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.

Advertising 78

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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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Data collection Accountability 98

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Banking Computers and Electronics Marketing Mobile 233

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.

Cybercrime 52

Cybercrime Internet Internet Small Business 52

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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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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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.

Mobile 89

Mobile Passwords Surveillance Technology 89

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 79

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Mobile 79

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.

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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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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.

Malware 143

Malware Computers and Electronics Telecommunications Encryption 143

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.).

Data privacy 77

Data privacy Data collection Government Accountability 77

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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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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Authentication Passwords Technology Password Management 119

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. In Februrary 2019, Ring changed its access practices again so that most Ring employees or contractors could only access a customer’s private video with that customer’s consent.

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Engineering Data collection Government Accountability 98

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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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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Internet Internet Advertising Marketing 95

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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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

The two-tier program includes business development opportunities, training, joint marketing, partner collateral, marketing co-op funds, sales leads and field account planning. Bitglass secured Series D funding of $70 million in August 2019 bringing its total venture capital funding to $150 million. Cado Security. It has raised $332.5

Cybersecurity 113

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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

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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Small Business Media Spyware DNS 56

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.

Advertising 125

Advertising Cybersecurity DDOS Data breaches 125

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.

eCommerce 113

eCommerce Risk Financial Services Authentication 113

SecureList

JUNE 20, 2022

However, the only actors that deliver the entire narrative of a cyberattack – discussing accountability and international law – are nation states. Cyber attribution is a necessary step to accountability in cyberspace. [2] within network activity logs collected by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), etc.).

Energy and Utilities 90

Energy and Utilities Data collection Malware Cybersecurity 90

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

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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