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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Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your digital footprint is the trail of data you leave behind when you use the internet and digital devices. It describes the sum of your online activities, from social media interactions to website visits and online transactions. Be Mindful of Your Online Accounts Your online accounts are key access points to your digital identity.

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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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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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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Arkansas – S 396: Social Media Safety Act Arkansas’s S 396, known as the Social Media Safety Act, mandates age verification for social media use to address the growing social media concerns. It also explores the implications for social media companies regarding responsibility and liability.

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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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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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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

The collected data is sent to the C2 server every two days, but the cycle depends on the remote configuration. The level of data collection depends on the permissions granted to the app using the malicious library.

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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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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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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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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Data Privacy Week Champion , and as part of our commitment to the link between cybersecurity and privacy, we wanted to share some best practices from the National Cybersecurity Alliance about how to protect your privacy online. Protect your data Data privacy and cybersecurity go hand in hand. For Individuals.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2023

Both Apple and Google are actively promoting their security efforts at developer conferences, achieving record profits and sales while many of the apps available have huge discrepancies between their stated privacy policies and the actual information and data collected.

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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

JULY 1, 2021

About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online , it seems that threat actors have no intention of stopping their abuse of the social media platform’s scrape-friendly systems. What was shared by the threat actor?

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Hacker Combat

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Other measures were also being implemented to for effective and thorough data collection and analysis. A particular messaging app reported abnormal account activities to the authorities which is believed to have probed the investigations in the first place. The hackers were said to have had access to nearly 6000 email accounts.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Using a vulnerability in a legitimate driver and a rootkit, they interfered with the antivirus, intercepted user credentials (many of which were cached on the terminal server, including accounts with administrator privileges on many systems), and began actively moving around the network.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). Criminals are reaching out to people through social media, emails, or phone calls pretending to be from the government. IC3 reports that it received 2,474 complaints that accounted for losses of more than U.S.

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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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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Doxing refers to the collection of confidential information about a person without their consent for the purpose of inflicting harm on that person or to otherwise gain some benefit from gathering or disclosing such information. Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant.

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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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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Security pros may recall the 2017 NotPetya attack on tax accounting software by M.E. The major public cloud providers have facilities that let teams do event and data collection without agents. The post Five ways to protect against software supply-chain attacks appeared first on SC Media. That was only four years ago.

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2024

Not only can the intruder violate their victim’s privacy by monitoring their activities, but they can also use the software to access huge volumes of personal data. Depending on the software they use, they can monitor anything from device location to text messages, social media chats, photos, browser history and more.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This development is unfolding largely off the radar screen of the website publishers who depend on this ecosystem, says Chris Olson, CEO of the Media Trust , a 15-year-old website security vendor, based in McLean, VA that is on the front lines of mitigating this seething threat.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

While there are plenty of security and privacy training providers to select from, Rakoski emphasized the importance of companies customizing their awareness programs to their unique privacy challenges and requirements, lest they overlook an important regulation that applies to their specific industry needs or data collection practices.

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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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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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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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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The main tool we use to obtain and analyze threat-related data is Kaspersky Security Network (KSN). KSN is dedicated to processing cybersecurity-related depersonalized data streams from Kaspersky products whose users consented to anonymized data collection. Do not forget to update your operating system and other software.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

Period-tracking app users scrambled to find the most secure app online , and one period-tracking app maker promised to encrypt user data so that, even if law enforcement made a request for their data, the data would be unintelligible. In August, the company confirmed a data breach that affected 5.4 million.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

In 2014, Wazawaka confided to another crime forum member via private message that he made good money stealing accounts from drug dealers on these marketplaces. “I used to steal their QIWI accounts with up to $500k in them,” Wazawaka recalled. ” WHO IS WAZAWAKA? . ” WHO IS WAZAWAKA?

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