Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are many ways that data collection, and data availability, make less sense as the years pass by. The VIN (or chassis number) is a unique marker on all vehicles put to use after 1981, originally designed to present you with an easy way to browse a vehicle’s history. This also worked! pic.twitter.com/TrEqbIrSEU.

Manufacturing 91

Manufacturing Wireless Risk Data collection 91

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. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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IoT Firmware Risk Manufacturing 358

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

This is why it is essential to your device performance to make sure any endpoints include flexible, secure, default-settings and, in particular, optional mechanisms like password complexity, password expiration, and account lock-out, which forces users to modify the default credentials when setting up the device.

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IoT Authentication Passwords Data collection 100

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.

Phishing 90

Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 90

SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

The first and simplest step that can be taken by cybercriminals is to gather data from publicly accessible sources. The Internet can provide doxers with all kinds of helpful information, such as the names and positions of employees, including those who occupy key positions in the company. Attacks using publicly accessible data: BEC.

Identity Theft 87

Identity Theft Phishing Accountability Banking 87

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. It presents a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 ), which provide an overview of the latest trends across the threat landscape.

Banking 71

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Mobile 71

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

As stated in Group-IB’s annual report “ Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 ” presented at the CyberCrimeCon18 conference, every month, 1-2 banks lose money as a result of cyber attacks, and the damage caused by one successful theft is, on average, $2 million. They account for 80% of all financial phishing sites. million (2.96

Cyber Attacks 83

Cyber Attacks Banking Cyber threats Phishing 83

SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

If the PowerShell is not present, the malware generates a hidden file with MZ-PE loader with a randomized name located in % APPDATA % directory. If administrative rights are present, its ether executes a PowerShell script that creates two task scheduler entries with GUID-like names and with different triggers. 8, 10.0.0.0/8,

Malware 107

Malware DNS Encryption Cryptocurrency 107

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. These numbers are less open to interpretation.

Surveillance 109

Surveillance Passwords Software Technology 109

Centraleyes

JANUARY 14, 2024

It is worth noting that if a merchant has suffered a breach that resulted in account data compromise, they may be asked by their acquiring bank (the financial institution that initiates and maintains the relationships with merchants that accept payment cards) to fill a higher validation level. No need for an external audit.

Computers and Electronics 52

Computers and Electronics Risk Software Information Security 52

SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The graph presents data for the first five days of each link’s life ( download ). 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.).

Phishing 109

Phishing Hacking Engineering Scams 109

Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Consider, for example, a 2013 Massachusetts bill that tried to restrict the commercial use of data collected from K-12 students using services accessed via the internet. But having them on the record about their intentions would at least provide a baseline for accountability. This process is called fine-tuning.

Energy and Utilities 297

Energy and Utilities Artificial Intelligence Technology Government 297

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Vamosi: How do we know who’s on the other end of a connection, who it is that is logging into a computer or an account online? So of course when I saw that some researchers were presenting a talk at SecTor 2021 in Toronto on defeating biometrics with artificial intelligence, well I knew I had to talk to them as well.

Hacking 52

Hacking Authentication Artificial Intelligence Technology 52

SecureList

JUNE 20, 2022

However, the only actors that deliver the entire narrative of a cyberattack – discussing accountability and international law – are nation states. Cyber attribution is a necessary step to accountability in cyberspace. [2] within network activity logs collected by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), etc.).

Energy and Utilities 84

Energy and Utilities Data collection Malware Cybersecurity 84

ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

You know, I did a job once where we had a customer and involved compromises at different servers right in and, you know, we literally had a whole team just to do data collection. And it took us a month to collect that data, like a month like meanwhile, there's an ABD group running around the network causing havoc.

Government 40

Government Technology Firewall Engineering 40

SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The loader starts its activities by loading an encrypted payload from another file that should be present in the same directory. The loaded data are then decoded using XOR, where the XOR key is generated using an unusual technique. The malware uses a static seed to generate a 256-byte XOR_KEY block using shuffle and add operations.

Encryption 112

Encryption Passwords Malware Firewall 112

Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

I looked at the equipment list from 2019, that was documented in the Bart and Grifter presentation, and estimated we needed to source an additional 150 Cisco Meraki MR AP (with brackets and tripods) and 70+ Cisco Meraki MS switches to build the Black Hat USA network in just a few weeks. based network (using certificates).

Engineering 84

Engineering Wireless Malware DNS 84

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. In our private report, we presented an overview of previous and current attacks, the group’s objectives, and its methodologies.

Malware 84

Malware Government Phishing Social Engineering 84

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

At the time of this podcast, Lockbit accounts for 40% of the ransomware present today and it hits both Windows and Linux machines. Vamosi: So ransomware started with like individuals being compromised and their data collected and $300 in Bitcoin and then it became commercialized to industries and so first ransomware.

Ransomware 40

Ransomware Encryption Cybercrime Government 40

Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 19, 2017

For the last 4 years, I've also run a free service called Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) which aggregates data breaches and presently contains about 4.8 million people presently subscribe to those notifications and I've had up to 3 million people visit the site in a single day after a major data breach.

Data breaches 209

Data breaches Government Backups Internet 209

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Abnormal Security Cloud email security 2019 Private Sqreen Application security 2019 Acquired: Datadog Demisto SOAR 2018 Acquired by PAN Skyhigh Cloud security 2012 Acquired: McAfee OpenDNS Internet security 2009 Acquired: Cisco Palo Alto Networks Cloud and network security 2006 NYSE: PANW. Business Data.

Cybersecurity 122

Cybersecurity Technology Marketing Healthcare 122

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com).

Banking 362

Banking DNS Internet Internet 362