SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2024

All data collected this way is saved in a TMP alternate data stream and forwarded to the C2 server by the VBShower::Backdoor component. Sample script to get a local groups and members list, downloaded and executed by PowerShower PowerShower::Payload (2) Script for dictionary attacks on user accounts.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

Soldier Charged in AT&T Hack Searched Can Hacking Be Treason Group-IB contributes to joint operation of Royal Thai Police and Singapore Police Force leading to arrest of cybercriminal behind more than 90 data leaks worldwide UAC-0173 against the Notary Office of Ukraine (CERT-UA#13738) North Korea Responsible for $1.5

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 19, 2025

Governments did better Government services saw the most notable improvement, rising from 37% trust in 2024 to 42% in 2025, driven by enhanced regulatory frameworks like the EUs Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and improved transparency in data handling. 13% dissatisfaction in Germany).

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Zero Day

JUNE 27, 2025

I went through the report, which mostly showed that they haven't handed over any user data despite getting several orders to do so.    Even if data collection is your primary concern, IVPN operates a clean zero-logs policy. IVPN and Mullvad are similar in many facets, but the latter offers better value for money.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2025

A robust 75% said they opt out of data collection, as possible, and 23% have gone a step further, using a data removal service to help clean up any personal information that is easily found online. Broadly, Malwarebytes found that: 89% of people are concerned about my data being used by AI tools without my consent.

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Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

So, whether you're gaming or viewing media through your PlayStation console, here are some things to consider with detailed steps to make things run smoother and more safely. This includes limiting who can see your online status, gaming history, and profile information, as well as controlling access to your account and console. 

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The companies that were ordered to respond own some of the household social media and streaming service names. Some of the specific information that the FTC was looking for included: How social media and video streaming services collect, use, track, estimate, or derive personal and demographic information.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Some third-party apps quietly scraped personal information from people’s accounts from Twitter and Facebook, the social media companies claim. Facebook and Twitter revealed that some third-party apps quietly scraped personal information from people’s accounts without their consent. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

The idea was that by fingerprinting devices used to connect to the internet we could achieve better accountability. Fingerprinting is considered a necessary practice to fight challenges such as fake accounts and the misuse of internet services. However, online fingerprinting is also being used to track users.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

Residential proxy services are often marketed to people seeking the ability to evade country-specific blocking by the major movie and media streaming providers. 911’s EULA would later change its company name and address in 2017, to International Media Ltd. in the British Virgin Islands. su between 2016 and 2019.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2022

for “deceptive statements” the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service , which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me. would be permanently deleted.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That’s a crazy long time for an independent media outlet these days, but then again I’m bound to keep doing this as long as they keep letting me. ” Meanwhile, Crypto.com is trying to put space between it and recent headlines that a breach led to $30 million being stolen from hundreds of customer accounts.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

When we think about social media, we think about the nice side of it: staying in touch with friends and family, getting updates about our interests – but the more active we are on it, the more risk we’re exposed to. Having policies and procedures to secure social media accounts and minimise the potential for incidents can help.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2019

Social media platforms like Twitter are key components of misinformation campaigns carried out by nation-state actors, today we discuss Twitter bot activity after the release of the Mueller report. Data collected by SafeGuard confirm the intensification of the presence of Russian bots on Twitter. Midterm election.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2024

On Monday, the computing giant unveiled a new line of PCs that integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to promise faster speeds, enhanced productivity, and a powerful data collection and search tool that screenshots a device’s activity—including password entry—every few seconds. like world.”

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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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Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

If you were a victim of the Zynga data breach, you’ve probably changed the password for your account already. But have you considered resetting the passwords for any online accounts with similar login credentials? These data sets may include IP addresses, operating systems, browser type, game time and web page interactions.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

A flaw could have allowed hackers to take over any Instagram account in 10 minutes. Media File Jacking allows manipulating media files users receive via Android WhatsApp and Telegram. Mysterious hackers steal data of over 70% of Bulgarians. Sprint revealed that hackers compromised some customer accounts via Samsung site.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

The threat actor is abusing Google advertiser accounts to create malicious ads and pointing them to pages where unsuspecting users will download Remote Administration Trojan (RATs) instead. While we don’t know the threat actor’s true intentions, data collection and spying may be one of their motives.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s a harsh realization we are dealing with more by the day as social media, and a litany of applications and hosted software products invade our daily lives, and in the process, our privacy. Now TikTok wants the ability to put an actual face and voice to those other data sets, and it’s… dangerous.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 27, 2022

Nisos curates target-specific keywords for tuning broad social media, open web, as well as deep and dark web collection tools. Monthly reports include a thorough accounting of sites where PII was found and any remediation actions taken. Nisos Collection & Analysis Stack Spans All Critical Data Sources.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Monitoring and tracking potential threats from the dark web, open source, and social media platforms to detect threats that could attack your organization is critical to ensure public and corporate safety and security. OSINT Monitoring and Analysis reports provide a clear accounting of analyst findings.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

The company’s investigation determined that social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers and/or financial account numbers may have been accessed or acquired. For this reason – unlike [how] it appears in this case – organizations are wise to limit the amount of data kept and stored in systems,” Kron said. “For

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2021

In theory, the company could access the data but said they don’t directly access it. Sharing data with social media companies even if you don’t have an account with them. Zoom used Facebook’s Software Development Kit for app features, which resulted in data being sent to Facebook. The numbers game.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2019

” The social network suspended apps and accounts associated with Rankwave and asked the court to order it to respect its rules for applications. Rankwave apparently misused data collected by his app for checking users’ social media “influencer score”. ” reported Techcrunch.

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Hacker's King

AUGUST 7, 2024

In this article, we will explore how to use an OSINT tool to gather information about a phone number, email address, and social media account. It combines many open-source tools into a single tool, simplifying the data collection and analysis processes for researchers and cybersecurity professionals.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Users enjoyed using them to compose poems and lyrics in the style of famous artists (which left Nick Cave, for example, decidedly unimpressed ), researchers debated blowing up data centers to prevent super AI from unleashing Armageddon, while security specialists persuaded a stubborn chatbot to give them phone-tapping and car-jacking instructions.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Whether we’re browsing social media, playing video games, shopping for products, or simply reading news articles, trackers are silently monitoring our online behavior, fueling the ceaseless hum of countless data centers worldwide. In South Asia, it accounted for 25.47% of DNT component triggers, and in East Asia – 24.45%.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Earlier this month , popular Hollywood actor Tom Cruise was trending on social media not because of a new film that he’s working on, but thanks t o TikTok videos that went viral , generating many reactions from users around the ir authenticity. . one business leader fell victim to a deepfake scam ?where The post Tom Cruise,?

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

When violations are exposed by the media, as they regularly are, we are all surprised at the different ways Facebook violates user privacy. It even collects what it calls " shadow profiles " -- data about you even if you're not a Facebook user. Better use of Facebook data to prevent violence. Engage with regulators.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters left a database with sensitive customer and corporate data exposed online. Thomson Reuters, a multinational media conglomerate, left an open database with sensitive customer and corporate data, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

User personal data for sale. Crooks offers data collected through phishing campaign to the subscribers. Data includes verified online banking credentials, in some cases phishers also provides info on the account balances. ” continues the analysis. ” Phishing-as-a-Service. .

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

From our safe portal, everyday people can view past password breaches, active social media profiles, potential leaks of government ID info, and more. Why data matters I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read that “data is the new oil” without reading any explanations as to why people should care.

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