Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. Court documents (PDF) obtained from the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Regional and National Regulations and Documents: This part details regulations and guidelines specific to certain regions or countries, addressing local legislative requirements that may impact your operations. Implementation of Security Controls: Controls based on standards such as ISO 27001 or NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

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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. In some cases, the man manually chacked the stolen information. In some cases, the man manually chacked the stolen information.

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA) is a state law created to protect the privacy of Delaware residents by regulating the collection, use, storage, and sharing of personal data by businesses. Who Must Comply With Delaware’s Privacy Act? These disclosures need to be accessible and easy to understand.

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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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Centraleyes

APRIL 17, 2025

Various regulatory bodies and industry organizations either require or recommend the use of COSO: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) recognize COSO as a valid framework for SOX compliance, ensuring public companies maintain strong internal controls over financial reporting.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 27, 2022

Nisos analysts actively remove PII through legally protected opt-out procedures on public and private data broker sites, add relevant addresses and phone numbers to do-not-call lists, and remove contact details from mailing lists. Nisos also documents any remaining PII that couldn’t be removed. their needs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The report provides insights into factors influencing user consent for data collection and usage and reasons for consumer disengagement. More than half (55%) claimed that reducing unnecessary data collection was an additional factor that would help them gain trust in a company or brand.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This article delves deep into the settings and privacy policies of LLM-based chatbots to find out how they collect and store conversation histories, and how office workers who use them can protect or compromise company and customer data. The user creates an account and gains access to the bot. Account hacking.

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

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. If you create a passkey on one device the Google Password Manager can make it available on your other devices that are signed into the same system account.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 7, 2024

Robust CIAM platforms incorporate effective ID verification mechanisms, such as document verification and biometric authentication, to ensure the authenticity of customer identities while eliminating friction and fraud risks.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 20, 2024

The company allegedly obtained this information from non-public sources without the consent of the person filing the complaint or the potentially billions of others affected by the data collection. Activate multi-factor authentication on all accounts where it’s available, especially on email, banking, and social media platforms.

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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. They are followed by banking Trojans , whose share in the total amount of malicious attachments showed growth for the first time in a while. Opened email lets spy in.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Probably “no”, but in a perfect world they’d document local connections by other apps and not break that.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

The messages use specially crafted archives containing LNK files disguised as regular documents. Attackers also manipulate local Administrator accounts to maintain persistence, they were spotted enabling the disabled local Administrator account, followed by resetting its password.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 26, 2025

It introduces accountability measures for large platforms, and strengthens users’ rights. The Data Act enhances access to and use of non-personal data across sectors. The Digital Services Act regulates online services to enhance digital trust. Incident Response Plan: Establish crisis management strategies.

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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? Despite an FAQ claiming tracking only takes place “with the app open”, reporter James McCleod submits a request under Canada’s Personal Information protection and Electronic Documents Act.

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SecureList

JULY 8, 2024

It’s a sophisticated cyberespionage tool used for stealth monitoring, data collection, and exfiltration via Microsoft Graph, Yandex Cloud, and Dropbox cloud infrastructure. 0x2507 Create process with pipe Creates any process with support of inter-process communication to exchange data with the created process.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 2, 2021

A recent IBM and Ponemon Institute study found the average cost of a data breach for a company last year came in at $3.86 Cyberattacks are conducted because the data collected – such as names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and financial account information – is financially valuable to the criminals. million.

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2025

This confirms the trend of hacktivists exploiting trusted relationships (T1199 Trusted Relationship and T1078 Valid Accounts). They use these accounts to connect to the server via RDP to transfer and execute tools interactively. zip Lateral Movement The attackers used RDP to connect to systems, including with privileged accounts.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Each phishing document contains an external link to fetch a remote page containing a CVE-2021-26411 exploit. The attackers continued to send malicious documents via email until the end of September 2022. Overall, the campaign remained active over 6 months, until May 2023.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2022

Rapid7’s online documentation is very thorough, and their knowledge base articles helped us navigate a few configuration hiccups we ran into along the way. However, be careful in that if you ever need to do a password reset with that temporary email address, or access the account for any reason in the future, you may not be able to.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2021

The training and documentation resources of DevNet remain available. Nearly a dozen free/community security technology integrations are included, with details on how to set up your own free account. Cisco Secure is committed to an open and robust ecosystem, as explored in the ESG Showcase paper. SecureX Integration Modules.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Data collected by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint shows that nearly 3,000 devices in almost 1,000 organizations have seen at least one RaspberryRobin payload-related alert in the last 30 days. DEV-0950 group used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the Raspberry Robin worm.

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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. Dangerous email.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

“Our initial investigation has found that this data was scraped from LinkedIn and other various websites and includes the same data reported earlier this year in our April 2021 scraping update,” reads the LinkedIn statement. Read more about the April 2021 LinkedIn scrape: Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 18, 2024

Accountability: With an SBOM, software developers are accountable for the components they include, promoting better security practices. Documenting relationships: Describe how components interact and depend on each other. However, a key issue is that it's important to assess the quality of your SBOM data collection."

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

A hacker or scammer could also use faceprint and voiceprint data in a plethora of ways to impersonate you, and to create very realistic deep fakes or digital personas - combined with the other information obtainable from TikTok and some rudimentary AI, create a not-so-easily discerned, fake digital version of any user.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The Threat Report Portugal: H2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from July to December, H2, 2022. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open-sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

However, the customer company often gives the service provider quite a lot of access to its systems, including: allocating various systems for conducting operations; issuing accesses for connecting to the infrastructure; creating domain accounts. In other cases, they used data that was stolen before the incident began.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The site asks you for some personal information when you create the account which it then stores in a database. Who now owns that data? This is an important question because it drives the way organisations then treat that data. Data Collection Should be Minimised, Not Maximisation. The cat site?

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

They must indicate the subject matter and duration of the processing, the nature, and purpose of the processing, the type of personal data, and categories of data subjects and the obligations and rights of the controller. The culprit gained access to sensitive data of 11.9

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

Creating a social media account requires handing over your full name and birthdate. Getting approved for a mortgage requires the exchange of several documents that reveal your salary and your employer. Where the risk truly lies, however, is in fraudulent account access. Buying a plane ticket could necessitate your passport info.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In late 2018, we discovered a sophisticated espionage framework, which we dubbed “ TajMahal “ It consists of two different packages, self-named “Tokyo” and “Yokohama”, and is capable of stealing a variety of data, including data from CDs burnt on the victim’s machine and documents sent to the printer queue.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

Data collection from FTP clients, IM clients. In a blog post published on March 22nd, 2022, Microsoft confirmed that one of their user accounts had been compromised by the Lapsus$ (also known as DEV-0537) threat actor, though they claimed that the information accessed was limited and that “no customer code or data was involved”.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

These are generally not considered privacy data, but when coupled with an element like your identity document, it becomes private. Other types of data that you should consider private include: Your bank account number and card details. Login information for online accounts you have. Credit card details.

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