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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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. Validation directly inside the event collection system.

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Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Here are the facts and how to protect yourself Wondering if your information is posted online from a data breach? Here's how to check if your accounts are at risk and what to do next. PT Moor Studio/Getty With so much news about data breaches, you have to be careful not to panic each time you hear of a new one.

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Passwords Data breaches Password Management Identity Theft 64

The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

We talked about how the capacity to, in essence, rapidly reverse engineer new software and software updates — without unduly hindering agility — could make a big difference. Think of what we do as an automated reverse engineering process. For a full drill down, please give the accompanying podcast a listen. Acohido.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Moreover, Facebook should share any innovative engineering solutions with the world, much as it currently shares its data center engineering. Better security for collected user data. There have been numerous examples of attackers targeting cloud service platforms to gain access to user data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Scammers create fake websites of known brands, fraudulent promotional campaigns, and fake accounts on social media. In recent years, an often-used fraud method has been fake mobile applications: 36% of users are unable to distinguish between genuine and fake apps, and 60% of the latter request access to the user’s personal data. .

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Use private search engines Which search engines should you use? Avoid search engines like Google Search and Bing I’ve mastered this guide. Put into context, it would make little sense to use a privacy-oriented browser and all the features such a browser may have to offer, but continue to reuse passwords across online accounts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

MSBuild, short for Microsoft Build Engine, is a powerful tool for automating the software build process on Windows. 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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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The naming of ElasticSearch indices inside the Thomson Reuters server suggests that the open instance was used as a logging server to collect vast amounts of data gathered through user-client interaction. ElasticSearch is a very common and widely used data storage and is prone to misconfigurations, which makes it accessible to anyone.

IoT 129

IoT Engineering Passwords Media 129

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2023

million vehicles (start engine, disable starter, unlock, read device location, flash and update firmware). Authenticate into user account and perform actions against vehicles. Update vehicle status to “stolen”, updating both license plate and notifying authorities. Are these issues still a problem?

Manufacturing 89

Manufacturing Data collection Social Engineering Firmware 89

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

“For instance, a “premium” page may include elements of social engineering, such as an appealing design, promises of large earnings, an anti-detection system and so on.” User personal data for sale. Crooks offers data collected through phishing campaign to the subscribers. ” continues the report.

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Phishing Scams Social Engineering Banking 98

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.

Advertising 98

Advertising Accountability Data collection Engineering 98

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”.

Cybersecurity 98

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Passwords Malware 98

SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

Fake TikTok login page generated by the phishing bot From an engineering standpoint, this is a rather primitive product of a basic phishing kit. When a scammer requests a phishing page from a Telegram bot, it forwards the request along with all required data to a utility that assembles pages from predefined packages and returns hyperlinks.

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Phishing Marketing Scams Accountability 144

SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Making matters worse, the cameras employ facial recognition technology, which leads to questions as to whether an attacker could actually identify individuals caught on camera and then pursue them as targets for social engineering schemes or something even more nefarious. When surveillance leads to spying. What did Verkada do wrong?

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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. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. Links account for 29%, while attachments—for 71%. rar archive files. Dangerous email.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2021

It also empowers business owners to easily see, understand and act on contextual intelligence using scoring frameworks proven to stop insider threats, prevent data loss, maximize software investments and protect the workforce, wherever they may be. Workforce Cyber Intelligence is designed for today’s modern, distributed workforce model.

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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. However, a key issue is that it's important to assess the quality of your SBOM data collection." Das added, "All tools are not the same even if they generate an SBOM in standard format.

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Software Risk Artificial Intelligence Accountability 109

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?

Data breaches 181

Data breaches Data collection B2B Mobile 181

Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

social engineer a mobile provider employee to facilitate a SIM swap). Users must be better protected from the outset, and the only way to ensure that is to impose significant restrictions on data collection and usage by companies seeking to monetize or use it to their asymmetric benefit in any way.

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Data collection Media Mobile Identity Theft 98

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In South Asia, it accounted for 25.47% of DNT component triggers, and in East Asia – 24.45%. The share of DNT triggers for Bing trackers in each region, July 2023 — June 2024 ( download ) Bing is a full-fledged search engine. Google Display & Video 360 accounts for 17.27%, while Google Analytics holds 11.93%.

Advertising 130

Advertising Technology Marketing Media 130

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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Early occurrences of EvilProxy have been initially identified in connection to attacks against Google and MSFT customers who have MFA enabled on their accounts – either with SMS or Application Token. Once the funds for the subscription are received, they will deposit to the account in customer portal hosted in TOR. Google 2FA.

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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.

Mobile 134

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2019

“Many devices such as cameras, printers, and routers use UPnP to make it easy for them to automatically discover and vet other devices on a local network and communicate with each other for data sharing or media streaming. Windows XP comes with UPnP functionality that is enabled automatically out of the box.

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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. Here we had a situation where an attacker could easily control moving parts within a car from a remote location.

IoT 363

IoT Firmware Risk Encryption 363

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? How Does InsightIDR Work? For InsightIDR, the standard plan starts at $5.61

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2023

Bob Janssen, Vice President of Engineering and Head of Innovation at Delinea: "The draft AI Act represents a significant step in regulating AI technologies. It also raises the bar for AI transparency and accountability. Chris Vaughan, Vice President, Technical Account Management, at Tanium: "Overall, this is a positive decision.

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Artificial Intelligence Technology CISO Government 98

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

At present, only three criminal groups— Buhtrap2 , RTM , and Toplel —steal money from the accounts of legal entities in Russia. They account for 80% of all financial phishing sites. GIB Threat Intelligence cyber threats data collection system has been named one of the best in class by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.

Cyber Attacks 108

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The threat data we rely on is sourced from Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), which processes anonymized cybersecurity data shared consensually by Kaspersky users. This report draws on data collected from January through October 2024. Credit card data is widely offered on the dark web, alongside shopping accounts.

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Banking Phishing Scams Retail 102

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.

Advertising 125

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

Given that in many cases it is not possible to hire the talent to fill this gap, one option is to retrain existing teams and service engineers. 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

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Certain tech giants recently started adding tools to their ecosystems that are meant to improve the data collection transparency. A further tracking service operated by Google, Google Analytics, collects data on website visitors and provides detailed statistics to clients.

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Internet Internet Advertising Marketing 100

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Reconnaissance Reconnaissance is the starting point of Volt Typhoon’s cyber campaign, characterized by thorough planning and data collection. Monitor unauthorized changes: Set up real-time monitoring of AD infrastructure, particularly elevated network accounts and groups.

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