CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

According to a study made by security firm Bugcrowd, ethical hackers have prevented over $27 billion worth of cyber crime during the spread of Corona virus 2019.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In exchange for resolving all outstanding class action claims against it, Equifax in 2019 agreed to a settlement that includes up to $425 million to help people affected by the breach. Americans currently have no legal right to opt out of this data collection and trade.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Under Christmas tree you can find great gifts such as significant improvements of user interface (panel), modal windows on loading and expansion of data collection objects. Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The project was launched in September 2019 and as of August 2020, the experts collected 680 records of ransomware attacks that took place since November 2013. “In September 2019, we started a repository of Critical Infrastructures Ransomware Attacks (CIRWAs).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2023

SystemBC was discovered by experts at Proofpoint in Augut 2019, it is being distributed via exploit kits like Fallout and RIG. ” reads the report published by Data collected related to multiple incidents analyzed by Kaspersky suggest the attack was conducted by the Russian-speaking RaaS cybercrime Pistachio Tempest or FIN12.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

You would like to think that security would then be tightened up, but in March 2019, Vastaamo CEO Ville Tapio knew that hackers had in the months since continued to access the chain of private psychotherapy clinics’ systems. ”

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

In November 2019, researchers published vulnerabilities that allow 5G users to be tracked in real time, be sent fake emergency alerts, or be disconnected from the 5G network altogether. But even worse, for 5G, development, performance, cost, and time to market were all prioritized over security, which was treated as an afterthought.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A digital twin is a virtual duplicate of a physical entity or a process — created by extrapolating data collected from live settings. As data collection and computer modeling have advanced apace, so have the use-cases for digital twin technology. NTT Research is in the thick of this budding revolution.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Attorney for the Western District of Texas unsealed an indictment last week that named Mark Sokolvsky as the core developer for the Raccoon Infostealer business, which was marketed on several Russian-language cybercrime forums beginning in 2019. The Justice Department has set up a website — raccoon.ic3.gov

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The scripts developed by the cyber criminal were used to parse log data collected from botnet and searched for personally identifiable information (PII) and account credentials. Brovko was involved in the illegal practice between 2007 and 2019. In some cases, the man manually chacked the stolen information.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Customer proprietary network information (CPNI) is the data collected by telecommunications companies about a consumer’s telephone calls. In November 2019, the US branch of the telecommunications giant disclosed a security breach that impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The DPC discussed the inquiry : "The scope of the inquiry concerned an examination and assessment of Facebook Search, Facebook Messenger Contact Importer and Instagram Contact Importer tools in relation to processing carried out by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited ('MPIL') during the period between 25 May 2018 and September 2019.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2020

The name “Silent Night” Zbot is likely a reference to a weapon mentioned in the 2002 movie xXx, it was first spotted in November 2019 when a seller named “Axe” started offering it on the Russian underground forum forum.exploit[.]in. The malware is able to infect all operating systems.

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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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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In addition to a meticulous evaluation of individual work performance, the data collected in this way were used, among other things, to obtain a profile of the employees for measures and decisions in the employment relationship. And that led to something like a snowball rolling downhill.

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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

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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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2020

The Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs) of the Operation North Star operations are very similar to those observed in 2017 and 2019 campaigns that targeted key military and defense technologies. “Our analysis indicates that one of the purposes of the activity in 2020 was to install data gathering implants on victims’ machines.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In July, DHS’s Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) suspended all federal contracts with Perceptics , a contractor which sells license-plate scanners and other border control equipment, after data collected by the company was made available for download on the dark web.

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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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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2021

A central Chinese court has ruled that an employee of a consultancy firm was guilty of gathering more than a billion data items of Taobao, users since 2019. We did not expect to see the scale of Facebook’s data scrape of 533 million users to be “beaten” anytime soon, but a few months later and here we are.

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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. These data sets may include IP addresses, operating systems, browser type, game time and web page interactions.

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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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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. Rapid7’s market capitalization in 2021 is over $6.75

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2019

Even if in Italy the cells of the popular Anonymous collective are very active , the overall number of hacktivist attacks that caused in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 percent since 2015. Researchers analyzed data collected by IBM’s X-Force threat intelligence unit between 2015 and 2019.

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Veracode Security

JUNE 25, 2021

The State of Software Security v11: Open Source Edition analyzed the data collected from 13 million scans of more than 86,000 repositories, containing more than 301,000 unique libraries. We also added some color and context to the data this year by surveying our customer base and adding the data from 1,744 responses to the report.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 14, 2019

With all the talk of escalating cyber warfare , the spread of counterfeit smartphones and new forms of self-replicating malware , I came away from Black Hat USA 2019 (my 15 th ) marveling, once more, at the panache of modern cyber criminals. More data had to be collected, stored and analyzed, ideally by experienced analysts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2019

Data collected by SafeGuard confirm the intensification of the presence of Russian bots on Twitter. In January 2019, the social media platform removed 418 accounts associated with Russian entities. Midterm election. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2020. They are followed by banking Trojans , whose share in the total amount of malicious attachments showed growth for the first time in a while.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

There are three major threat vectors that harm IoT deployments: Devices are hijacked by malicious software; Data collected and processed in IoT ecosystems is tampered with and impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information; and, Weak user and device authentication.

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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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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 situation has caused lawmakers and government officials, in general, to be on high alert.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2023

PROS Light on System Resources ( ) Compatible with most Firefox Extensions ( ) "No telemetry" and "Limited Data Collection" ( this could change, given the first con below) CONS Bought by analytics/adverising company, System1, which is the same company that bought search engine StartPage. Additionally, the default search remains Bing.

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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. Barry shared screenshots of that back-end database, which show the email address for the administrator of US Job Services is tab.webcoder@gmail.com.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

There have been incidents in recent years where third parties have had data breaches with catastrophic results. 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).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios, such as for home automation, medical device data collection, and other low-power low-bandwidth needs, designed for small scale projects which need wireless connection.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I had the chance to meet with him again at Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas. This skills deficit has been the top worry of IT pros for several years, according to tech consultancy ESG’s annual survey of IT pros; some 53% of the organizations participating in ESG’s 2018 -2019 poll reported a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity skills.

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