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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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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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 2, 2023

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. How does CPRA impact business operations?

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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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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.

Ransomware 101

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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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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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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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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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Data collection Media Mobile Identity Theft 98

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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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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Spyware Mobile Advertising Software 183

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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Phishing Ransomware Spyware Banking 106

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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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This may include reviewing documentation, conducting interviews, and observing processes. SOC 2, or System and Organization Controls 2, was developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Modern platforms streamline onboarding with smart questionnaires, making data collection more manageable.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant. You might think that this kind of information would be useless for an attack on a company because this personal info is not actually related to the company and contains no data that could actually compromise the company or the account owner.

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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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Malware Computers and Electronics Telecommunications Encryption 140

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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Firewall Data collection Education Malware 94

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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Ransomware Antivirus Malware Banking 72

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

Together, CWRU and the FBI were able to identify that an IP address with which the malware was communicating had also been used to access the alumni email account of a man called Phillip Durachinsky. The FBI found more than 20 million files collected from victim machines on hardware confiscated from Durachinsky’s home.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One of the most outstanding examples involves $2 million ‘s worth of CS:GO skins stolen from a user’s account , which means that losses can get truly grave. Game over: cybercriminals targeting gamers’ accounts and money. Launching the malware resulted in decryption and activation of a Trojan-stealer dubbed Taurus.

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Mobile Passwords Software Accountability 95

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While these don’t expose either old or new passwords, the logs show the account holder’s email address, and the exact time the password change query was sent can be seen. That includes documents with corporate and legal information about specific businesses or individuals. Information stored on the server is extremely sensitive.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Thank you to Cristian M for his AzureHound PR and BloodHound PR to bring support for attack paths traversing Automation Accounts, Logic Apps, Web Apps, and Function Apps. Cristian’s PRs also add support for Storage Accounts, which we will be including in a future update. Checking out BloodHound for the first time? BloodHound 4.3

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are many ways that data collection, and data availability, make less sense as the years pass by. The researchers noticed that multiple car brands were serviced by SiriusXM: While exploring this avenue, we kept seeing SiriusXM referenced in source code and documentation relating to vehicle telematics.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, one website offered users to obtain a COVID vaccination certificate by entering their British National Health Service (NHS) account credentials. Scammers abused legitimate survey services by creating polls in the name of various organization to profit from victims’ personal, including sensitive, data.

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Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 90

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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Software Risk Encryption Marketing 102

SecureList

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

At the time of detection, the account active on the host was S-1-5-21-<…>-<…>-<…>-181797 (Domain / username). Case #1: Collecting and stealing documents. <…cut…>c$users<username4>Documents<DocumentFolder1>". Use of the RAR archiver for data collection.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

right now, and read the updated documentation. Dirk-jan found that the “Write Account Restrictions” property set in Active Directory includes the ability to write to the “ms-DS-AllowedToActOnBehalfOfOtherIdentity” property, which allows you to perform the RBCD attack. 12 new and/or improved abuse edges. Ready to get started?

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Data collection Authentication Passwords Architecture 52

Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Popular ESG frameworks include the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Companies should anticipate inquiries about their ESG-related processes, the use of reporting frameworks, and their data collection methods.

Government 52

Government Energy and Utilities Risk Technology 52

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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IoT Firmware Risk Manufacturing 358

SecureWorld News

JUNE 14, 2022

IoT devices are always collecting data. Most IoT device users realize IoT devices collect and derive massive amounts of data. But the amount, and types, of data collected are much greater than what most realize; how can they know without training? To do this, CEs must know where PHI is located.

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IoT Healthcare Risk Firmware 68

SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

BlueNoroff developed an elaborate phishing campaign that targeted startups and distributed malware for stealing all crypto in the account tied to the device. To gain insights into the financial threat landscape, we analyzed data on malicious activities on the devices of Kaspersky security product users. of attacks. Afghanistan 6.5

Banking 71

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Mobile 71

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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Accountability B2B Risk Hacking 97

Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2022

These are living documents and should be treated as such. These typically include phishing, malware attacks/compromised devices, ransomware, DDoS, unauthorized account creation, and network security rule changes. The more granular the playbook, the less variance you’ll get in the response and the more consistent your operations.

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Technology Marketing Phishing DNS 52

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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Spinone

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

authentication (the technology that allows you to log into an app via your Google or Facebook account) can introduce many security flaws as apps using this type of authentication are granted access permissions to user account actions and data on install. Poorly implemented OAuth 2.0 million users personal details.

Mobile 40

Mobile Data breaches Accountability Risk 40