Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data. billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020. The post 2020 Likely To Break Records for Breaches appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Over at Lawfare: “ 2020 Is An Election Security Success Story (So Far).” ” What’s more, the voting itself was remarkably smooth. It was only a few months ago that professionals and analysts who monitor election administration were alarmed at how badly unprepared the country was for voting during a pandemic.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Among the chief concerns for enterprises this month is CVE-2020-16875 , which involves a critical flaw in the email software Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. “We have seen the previously patched Exchange bug CVE-2020-0688 used in the wild, and that requires authentication. . We’ll likely see this one in the wild soon.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2020

Near the top of the heap is CVE-2020-1020 , a remotely exploitable bug in the Adobe Font Manager library that was first detailed in late March when Microsoft said it had seen the flaw being used in active attacks. Further reading: Qualys breakdown on April 2020 Patch Tuesday. SANS Internet Storm Center on Patch Tuesday.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2021

13, 2020, someone uploaded a suspected malicious file to VirusTotal , a service that scans submitted files against more than five dozen antivirus and security products. “In August 2020, a U.S.-based 13, 2020 someone uploaded a file with that same name and file hashes. Image: VirusTotal.com.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Online scammers are using the 2020 Oscars to spread malware. The post 2020 Oscar Nominees Used to Spread Malware appeared first on Adam Levin. A recent study released by Kaspersky Labs uncovered several hacking and phishing campaigns promising their targets free and early access to Best Picture nominees for this year’s Academy Awards.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

Recorded Future warns exploit code is now available for one of the critical bugs Redmond patched last month in Microsoft Exchange ( CVE-2020-0688 ), and that nation state actors have been observed abusing the exploit for targeted attacks. CVE-2020-0852 is one just four remote execution flaws Microsoft patched this month in versions of Word.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Last week I signed on to two joint letters about the security of the 2020 election. To our collective knowledge, no credible evidence has been put forth that supports a conclusion that the 2020 election outcome in any state has been altered through technical compromise.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ten years ago, I wrote an essay : "Security in 2020." Well, it's finally 2020. That's IT in 2020 -- it's not under your control, it's doing things without your knowledge and consent, and it's not necessarily acting in your best interests. I think I did pretty well. Security can only be defined in relation to something else.

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The Hacker News

MAY 10, 2023

national has pleaded guilty in connection with the July 2020 Twitter attack affecting numerous high-profile accounts and defrauding other users of the platform. Department of

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Microsoft today issued its final batch of security updates for Windows PCs in 2020, ending the year with a relatively light patch load.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The post The 2020-2022 ATM/PoS malware landscape appeared first on TechRepublic. Attacks using ATM or PoS malware are on the rise again in 2022 after the COVID-19 lockdowns.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a serious probe on SolarWinds’s massive data breach of 2020. The post SolarWinds 2020 data breach to be deeply proved by SEC appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. Thus, pretty soon, the software developer might face legal action that could land it up in paying a huge penalty.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. It just so happened that the year 2020 gave hackers a large number of powerful news topics, with the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest of these.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

Twitter Cyber Attack 2020, that witnessed the breach of over 130 celebrity accounts in July last year, has witnessed a development recently. The post Twitter Hack 2020 culprit arrested in Spain appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

See what Jack Wallen considers to be the biggest issue for Linux in 2020. This year was rough for all involved--even Linux and open source didn't come through unscathed.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

2020 was challenging for everyone: companies, regulators, individuals. As a result, 2020 was extremely eventful in terms of digital threats, in particular those faced by financial institutions. In 2020, the group tried its hand at the big extortion game with the VHD ransomware family. Key findings. to 13.21%.

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We Live Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A view of the Q4 2020 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts. The post ESET Threat Report Q4 2020 appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Incident response analyst report provides insights into incident investigation services conducted by Kaspersky in 2020. In 2020, the pandemic forced companies to restructure their information security practices, accommodating a work-from-home (WFH) approach. Geography of incident responses by region, 2020.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 In 2020, Bitcoin blackmailers stuck to their old scheme, demanding that their victims transfer money to a certain account and threatening adversity for failure to meet their demands. The share of spam in global email traffic in 2020 was down by 6.14

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In Q4 2020, Citrix ADC (application delivery controller) devices became one such tool, when perpetrators abused their DTLS interface. Overall, Q4 remained within the parameters of 2020 trends. Extortionists’ activity regularly made the news throughout 2020. This trend continued in the last months of 2020.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

Data from major cyber security firms revealed that tens of billion records have been exposed in data breaches exposed in 2020. Below a list of top incidents: There were a number of major data breaches that took place in 2020, in many cases stolen records flooded the cybercrime underground and were used credential stuffing attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Samba team has released a security patch to address the Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) issue in the Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC). The CVE-2020-1472 flaw is an elevation of privilege that resides in the Netlogon. The post Samba addresses the CVE-2020-1472 Zerologon Vulnerability appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2021

Researchers at industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty have discovered a high-severity vulnerability in Siemens PLCs, tracked as CVE-2020-15782 , that could be exploited by remote and unauthenticated attackers to bypass memory protection. Claroty’s blog post describes the PLC sandbox and the role CVE-2020-15782 could play in an attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Google has released Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 that also addresses the CVE-2020-15999 flaw which is an actively exploited zero-day. Google has released Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 that includes security fixes for several issues, including a patch for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-15999.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 26, 2021

The post Ransomware: Analyzing the data from 2020 first appeared on Digital Shadows. Note: This blog is a roundup of our quarterly ransomware series. You can also see our Q2 Ransomware Trends, Q3.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

VMware discloses a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2020-4006) in multiple VMware Workspace One components and released a workaround to address it. VMware has released a workaround to address a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-4006, that affects multiple VMware Workspace One components. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 17, 2021

Fortinet Lab’s Global Threat Landscape Report for the second half of 2020 reads more like a decade of attacks, not just a six-month period. The post 2020: The Year of Living Dangerously appeared first on SC Media.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We observed the threat landscape of ATM/PoS malware attacks and how it changed in 2020-2022. For these purposes, we analyzed threat statistics from Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), a system for processing anonymized cyberthreat-related data shared voluntarily by Kaspersky users, for the period between January 2020 and August 2022.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Microsoft December 2020 Patch Tuesday security update address 58 vulnerabilities, 22 of them are remote code execution vulnerabilities. Microsoft December 2020 Patch Tuesday security update address 58 vulnerabilities, 22 of them are remote code issues. In 2020, the IT giant has released a total of 1,250 CVEs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

A hacking group has employed at least 11 zero-day flaws as part of an operation that took place in 2020 and targeted Android, iOS, and Windows users. Google researchers observed two separate waves of attacks that took place in February and October 2020, respectively. ” wrote the popular Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone.

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We Live Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

High-severity and critical bugs disclosed in 2020 outnumber the sum total of vulnerabilities reported 10 years prior. The post Record‑breaking number of vulnerabilities reported in 2020 appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Cisco warns of attacks attempting to exploit the CVE-2020-3118 vulnerability that affects multiple carrier-grade routers running Cisco IOS XR Software. Cisco is warning of attacks targeting the CVE-2020-3118 high severity vulnerability that affects multiple carrier-grade routers running the Cisco IOS XR Software. Appropriate SMU 6.6

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Security Boulevard

JULY 13, 2021

In an attempt to provide better insights to our readers about what DMARC is and how its implementation can help in securing an organization’s outbound email channels, KDMARC has released its 2020-2021 DMARC Industry Report. The post DMARC Industry Report 2020-2021 appeared first on Kratikal Blogs.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

Learn more about what's on the landscape for 2020. Data privacy is an increasing concern for companies and individuals.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. Data that emerged from the report are worrisome, in 2020 the reported losses exceeded $4.2 ” reads 2020 Internet Crime Report. billion in losses.

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