eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Even McAfee’s most basic plan includes a VPN, identity monitoring, and text scam detection. I recommend McAfee if you’re looking for features like social media privacy, personal data monitoring, and scans of old internet accounts. McAfee Essential offers web browsing protection, VPN, and identity monitoring.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2025

19, 2025, CyberNewswire — The average corporate user now has 146 stolen records linked to their identity, an average 12x increase from previous estimates, reflecting a surge in holistic identity exposures. For further insights, the full 2025 SpyCloud Identity Exposure Report is available here. Austin, TX, Ma.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Together for a Better Internet: Celebrating Safer Internet Day 2025 andrew.gertz@t Tue, 02/11/2025 - 14:57 At a time when technology is integral to our lives, Safer Internet Day (SID) has never been more relevant. By holding platforms to account and mandating guardrails, the DSA aims to make the internet a safer place.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

4, 2025, CyberNewswire — SpyClouds Identity Threat Protection solutions spearhead a holistic identity approach to security, illuminating correlated hidden identity exposures and facilitating fast, automated remediation. Austin, TX, Feb.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2025

Organizations need to take a layered approach to close the gaps before attacks progress deeper into their environments, resulting in events like ransomware and account takeover. SpyClouds data from breaches, malware-infected devices, and successful phishes also powers many popular dark web monitoring and identity theft protection offerings.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2025

A cyberattack on healthcare provider Esse Health in April 2025 exposed data of 263K+ patients, including SSNs and medical info. In April 2025, Missouri-based healthcare provider Esse Health suffered a cyberattack that disrupted its systems and led to the theft of personal data from over hundreds of thousands individuals.

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Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

Chances are youve received at least one of these letters, which means you have been put at risk for identity theft and major financial losses. Here are just some of the ways hackers exploit your stolen information: Identity theft : Hackers use your personal info to impersonate you. In 2024, more than 1.3

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2025

An investigation completed on February 18, 2025, confirmed that threat actors accessed personal information. “We have no evidence that any of the information has been used for identity theft or to commit financial fraud.Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution, we want to make the impacted individuals aware of the incident.”

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Webroot

APRIL 11, 2025

According to the IRS, almost 300,000 cases of identity theft were reported in 2024, leading to $5.5 Common tax scams to watch out for in 2025 IRS Impersonation: The most common type of tax fraud starts with a phone call, text or email. billion in tax fraud. Thats why each year, the IRS releases its list of Dirty Dozen Tax Scams.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 17, 2025

Reddit introduced its “Reddit Community Intelligence” at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2025. On June 28, 2025 a new Privacy Policy will go into effect. Also don’t link your account to your Google or Apple account. Don’t link to other social media profiles in your profile or posts.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

CISA and the FBI also highlighted these buffer overflow vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-21333 CVE-2025-0282 CVE-2024-49138 CVE-2024-38812 CVE-2023-6549 CVE-2022-0185 For more information about buffer overflow attacks and vulnerabilities: Buffer Overflow (OWASP) What is Buffer Overflow? Check out how they responded.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

Identity at a Crossroads: Why Existential Identity Matters madhav Tue, 04/08/2025 - 04:31 Imagine waking up one morning to find your digital identity compromised your accounts hijacked, your access revoked, and your data in someone elses hands. But at what cost?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 18, 2024

IAM Predictions for 2025: Identity as the Linchpin of Business Resilience madhav Thu, 12/19/2024 - 05:33 As we look toward 2025, the lessons of 2024 serve as a stark reminder of the rapidly evolving identity and access management (IAM) landscape.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The deadline is looming; unless the courts stop it, it will go into effect January 19, 2025. Protect your social media accounts by using Malwarebytes Identity Theft Protection. Free speech advocates agree with TikTok that a ban would violate First Amendment rights to free speech, mainly because it would set a precedent.

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Webroot

APRIL 30, 2025

May 1, 2025, is World Password Day , a reminder that passwords are the unsung heroes of cybersecurity, the first line of defense for all your sensitive personal data. Because more than two in three people admit they reuse passwords across multiple accounts. Using MFA can stop over 99% of account compromise attacks. Did you know?

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Nulled: 5 million users and identity theft at scale Operating since 2016, Nulled specialized in selling stolen identification documents, hacking tools, and access to compromised accounts. Department of Justice (DOJ) , the forums impacted at least 17 million U.S. victims and generated millions of dollars in criminal revenue.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 18, 2024

IAM Predictions for 2025: Identity as the Linchpin of Business Resilience madhav Thu, 12/19/2024 - 05:33 As we look toward 2025, the lessons of 2024 serve as a stark reminder of the rapidly evolving identity and access management (IAM) landscape.

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Webroot

MAY 28, 2025

Studies show that 51% of Americans report theyve been victims of a data breach, and 64% say theyve changed their online behavior for fear of escalating online threats like ransomware and identity theft. In fact, the 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found 81% of data breaches were caused by compromised passwords.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Potential consequences for users If the breach is legitimate, it could have significant security and privacy implications for OmniGPT users, including: Phishing and identity theft : Exposed email addresses and phone numbers can be leveraged for targeted phishing attacks and social engineering scams.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

trillion by 2025, according to the report Cyberwarfare in the C-Suite from Cybersecurity Ventures. Crimeware is a type of malware that cyber criminals use to commit identity theft or gain financial information to execute transactions. Also read: Complete Guide to Phishing Attacks: Different Types and Defenses.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2024

Additionally, there sectoral privacy regulations in the United States, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and state level regulations like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Also, the GDPR recommends data anonymization to minimize the risk of PII breach and identity theft.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 13, 2022

Sensitive data also includes payment and financial information that could lead to identity theft and fraud if the data is lost or stolen and winds up in the wrong hands. IDC estimates that by 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be created every single day. Data Explosion. How to choose a DLP solution.

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Centraleyes

JUNE 5, 2025

Deloittes 2025 Higher Education Trends highlights that today’s university security leaders must do more than secure datathey must adapt to seismic shifts in risk, trust, and technology. Financial Strains Undermine Security Readiness Fitch Ratings highlights different points in their 2025 report. A study at a U.S.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 20, 2024

government this week released a set of cybersecurity actions that federal civilian agencies will be required to take during the first half of 2025 mostly focused on applying secure configuration baselines to their cloud apps. Deploy all assessment tools from CISAs SCuBA project by April 25, 2025, and report assessment results to CISA.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 15, 2024

These assessments must weigh the benefits against potential risks to consumer rights and apply to processing activities occurring on or after October 1, 2025. Effective Date and Transition Period MODPA will take effect on October 1, 2025, with no retroactive application to processing activities before April 1, 2026.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For persistence, RansomHub affiliates create new user accounts, reactivate disabled ones, and deploy tools like Mimikatz to harvest credentials and escalate privileges. They harvest credentials from valid accounts to escalate privileges and move laterally within the network.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2025

In just the first three months of 2025, the UK government asked Apple for access to encrypted cloud storage for users across the globe , the US government exposed active Social Security Numbers in releasing files related to the assassination of former President John F. The anxieties are easy to trace. They may have a point.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For persistence, RansomHub affiliates create new user accounts, reactivate disabled ones, and deploy tools like Mimikatz to harvest credentials and escalate privileges. They harvest credentials from valid accounts to escalate privileges and move laterally within the network.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The infostealer has been around since mid-2024 (as a beta test), but its only really taken off in 2025. With the capture of usernames and passwords from web browsers, attackers can access your accounts, including email, social media, and financial services. ID-number}.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Kaspersky researchers uncovered phishing schemes targeting Hamster Kombat players, a popular Telegram-based clicker game, where attackers used fraudulent links to steal credentials and gain unauthorized access to user accounts.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

While the latter is more of a good thing, all of these are realities and none of the three will go away in 2025. We curated some predictions for the cybersecurity industry in 2025--some specific; some broad; some from practitioners; some from vendors--to get a pulse on what the cybersecurity community believes is coming in the New Year.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2025

For the fourth time in its history, The North Face has notified customers that their account may have been compromised. The notice from The North Face says: On April 23, 2025, we discovered unusual activity involving our website, thenorthface.com (Website), which we investigated immediately. Set up identity monitoring.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 1, 2025

Identity theft and fraudulent refund schemes were major players. Menlo Security's 2025 Browser Security Report tracked a 140% increase in browser-based phishing attacks, along with a 130% rise in zero-hour phishing attacks, many impersonating GenAI platforms or promising help with tax prep.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 21, 2025

Or, as diGenova described it: It not only means identity theft, but Ive had threats against me. Check the vendor website to see if they are contacting victims, and verify the identity of anyone who contacts you using a different communication channel. Over 60,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination of US President John F.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. This represents an evolutionary step beyond credential stuffing (a crime where the target’s passwords are used to access other accounts).

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 23, 2025

But in 2025, that no longer holds true. 200M lost in three months…and that number could grow A report by Resemble AI, titled “Q1 2025 Deepfake Incident Report,” paints a worrying picture of how deepfake crimes are evolving. Documented financial losses from deepfake-enabled fraud exceed $200 million in Q1 2025 alone,” the report noted.

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