CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2020, as the world grappled with a fast-spreading global pandemic, the FBI received more than 2,000 complaints each day, totaling 791,790 for the year. billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). The COVID-19 pandemic played a major role in cybercriminal activities in 2020.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 19, 2021

Census Bureau was the target of a cyberattack in January 2020, but hackers were unsuccessful in maintaining access to the system, according to a watchdog report released this week. The Associated Press says the cyberattack did not involve the 2020 census data. The data collected by the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2020

PAM governs a hierarchy of privileged accounts all tied together in a Windows Active Directory ( AD ) environment. It didn’t take cyber criminals too long to figure out how to subvert PAM and AD – mainly by stealing or spoofing credentials to log on to privileged accounts. We spoke at RSA 2020.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

In reality, this level of data collection is not as uncommon as is being suggested. The app collects how much data? It all begins in June 2020, when a reporter finds the Tim Hortons app is going above and beyond what one would expect as a reasonable level of tracking. That’s one theory, anyway.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2021

It has been quite a journey from the first announcement at RSA Conference 2020, when there was one 3 rd party integration (VirusTotal), to the release of SecureX the summer of 2020 with a large ecosystem. Nearly a dozen free/community security technology integrations are included, with details on how to set up your own free account.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Hosting stub — instead of the phishing content, the linked page clearly indicates that the domain is hosted (for example, “account blocked”, “website under reconstruction”, etc.). We obtained the date of the domain creation from the WHOIS public data. From June 2020 to June 2021. Domain creation period.

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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? These firms include Logentries in 2015, Komand in 2017, and DivvyCloud in 2020.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2021

Zoom-bombing, the practice of joining sessions without permission and causing mayhem, exploded into life during 2020. They later had to clarify that they meant data was encrypted at Zoom endpoints. In theory, the company could access the data but said they don’t directly access it. The numbers game. Well, it’s complicated.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The fine covers the period from July 2018, when the “Law on the Processing of Personal Data (Personal Data Act)” was established, until April 2020, when Grindr changed the consent solution. Shared data. Nevertheless, this is the highest fee to date from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority. Previous concerns.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

Practices highlighted included “hard to find” location settings, misleading descriptions of location settings, and “repeated nudging” to enable location settings alongside incomplete disclosures of Google’s location data collection.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2021

jailbreaking tool Attackers took over the Perl.com domain in September 2020 Bug bounty hunter awarded $50,000 for a Microsoft account hijack flaw Clop ransomware gang leaks data allegedly stolen from cybersecurity firm Qualys Cyber Defense Magazine – March 2021 has arrived. Enjoy it!

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. a16z Investments. ForgePoint Investments. Insight Investments. Kleiner Perkins Investments. LVP Investments.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The backdoor was undetected for at least 18 months in a cyberespionage campaign against entities in Taiwan between 2020 and 2021. ” xPack allowed threat actors to run WMI commands remotely and mount shares over SMB to transfer data from C2 servers to them. In some cases threat actors staged stolen data for further exfiltration.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2022

This should be a focus area for organizations to improve their defensive tactics, such as ensuring secure credentials and removing unnecessary privileged accounts. However, and despite receiving notable attention, only 56% of healthcare companies have formal ransomware response plans, reports the Thales 2022 Data Threats Report.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 13, 2024

In 2023, Reuters reported that a San Francisco woman sued her husband in 2020 for allegations of “assault and sexual battery.” Because the separate woman was a “primary” account owner, she was able to remove the car’s access to the internet, Reuters reported. This was far from an isolated incident.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

RedLine is a malware service available for purchase on underground forums that specifically targets the theft of sensitive information: passwords, credit cards, execution environment data, computer name, installed software, and more recently, cryptocurrency wallets and related files. Data collection from FTP clients, IM clients.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In the world of cybersecurity, the path of least resistance has consistently been shown to be the human element, specifically user accounts with enough access privileges or credentials for the cybercriminal to execute their plan. Compromised employee account login information was also the costliest infection vector for enterprises.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

As of the end of 2020, there were more than 26.66 This regulation requires that IoT devices sold in California are fitted with “reasonable security features”, which protect the device and the data it contains. #6 6 Decide early on the types of data collection, transmission and processing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 2. They all must have unique identifiers and the ability to collect and transfer data over networks to enable monitoring, surveillance, and execution of decisions based on the collected data with little or no human intervention.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The report, titled “ Everyone’s afraid of the internet and no one’s sure what to do about it ,” reveals the dismal rates of adoption for antivirus software, two-factor authentication (2FA), password managers, and unique passwords across online accounts. Across June, July, and August of 2020, on average, 0.7

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 2, 2023

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) was passed in November 2020. It amends the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) introduced in response to rising consumer data privacy concerns. It has significantly impacted data collection and handling practices, giving consumers more control over how businesses handle their data.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The threat actor used news about the Russo-Ukrainian conflict to trick targets into opening harmful emails that exploited the vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-35730, CVE-2020-12641 and CVE-2021-44026). Although there was a public report of drones used to hack a Wi-Fi network in 2022, there are no accounts of similar events happening in 2023.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

Companies do seem to be grasping the importance of privacy awareness training, according to Marla Berry, director of training at the International Association of Privacy Professionals, citing a 2020 IAPP-FTI Consulting Governance Report , which found that 95% of privacy teams are involved with companywide privacy-related awareness and training. “As

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This is more than a 70% increase over 2020. Based out of New York, Fraud.net’s cloud-based APIs leverage AI-powered risk intelligence to provide clients with high-powered analysis and monitoring services and potentially prevent fraud attempts before they can get ahold of your money and data. billion in reported fraud in 2021 alone.

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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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SecureWorld News

JUNE 14, 2022

Medical data was taken in 22% of breaches caused by insiders, mostly within healthcare providers. in 2020 to $188.2B healthcare organizations reported that they had not received data security training. 82% of healthcare organizations experienced an IoT cyberattack between the beginning of 2020 and mid-2021.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2024

TABLE OF CONTENTS Understanding HIPAA Mental health apps collect a wealth of personal information Information collection extends past user disclosure Mental health apps may share your information with third parties Can users protect their privacy while using mental health apps?

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As we see on the graph, Prilex was highly active in 2020, but suddenly disappeared in 2021, resurfacing in 2022 with a release of three new variants. The thieves could insert stolen card data into the transaction stream, while modifying the merchant and acquirer bank account on the fly. Initial infection vector. START GHOST] _.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Auditing and accountability: Audit logs and accountability mechanisms help in compliance with regulations, detecting suspicious behavior and investigating security breaches. This tracks and monitors user activities and security-related incidents to establish accountability and traceability.

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SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

We now have better visibility into the group’s tactics, particularly in the areas of lateral movement, data collection and exfiltration. GoldenJackal, an APT group we discovered in 2020, primarily targets high-profile entities in the Middle East and South Asia. ScoutEngine has several numbered versions from 2.1

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Best of all, there is no incremental cost based on the volume of data collected. Radio frequency (RF) network and device data collected by Bastille Networks are available in SecureX threat response as an integrated source. Monitor activity across all SaaS accounts in a single console. Read more about MISP here.

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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. Similarly, payment information was the type of data 21 percent said they would not share. Do not share your online account passwords with anyone.

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Laws such as CCPA and GDPR, not to mention vertical market regulations, make it clear how important this issue is to regulators, who take into account the security tools in use and their settings during investigations. For more information, take a look at our additional resource on safeguarding your personal data in the cloud. .

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SecureList

JULY 9, 2024

The number of described techniques currently exceeds 200, and most are broken down into several sub-techniques – MITRE T1098 Account Manipulation , for one, contains six sub-techniques – while SOC’s resources are limited. This is where the first challenges arise: thanks to MITRE ATT&CK, there are too many ideas.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

For larger organizations, the PRTG Enterprise Monitor can monitor thousands of devices for a distributed environment offering auditable data collection and service-based SLA monitoring through the ITOps Board. SolarWinds. The Austin-based IT vendor serves 99.6% Network Monitoring Software Features.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 14, 2024

This announcement comes four years after the release of the original framework in January 2020. Data Governance and Risk Management Recognizing the foundational role of data governance in privacy and cybersecurity, the updated Privacy Framework may emphasize data governance principles, practices, and controls.

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