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.

Retail 102

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Group-IB: The online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion, while the number of phishing attacks has surpassed 1,200 daily. Scammers create fake websites of known brands, fraudulent promotional campaigns, and fake accounts on social media. Phishing remains one of the most common online fraud.

Marketing 79

Marketing Phishing Media Engineering 79

SecureList

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As we were collecting and analyzing the relevant telemetry data, we realized the campaign had been launched in mid-August 2022 and targeted over a dozen corporations in Eastern Europe from the oil and gas sector and defense industry. It is a special malware module designed to send commands to the infected system via removable media.

Malware 98

Malware Phishing Internet Internet 98

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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Data collection Media Mobile Identity Theft 98

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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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. Where does your personal data end up?” Attacks using publicly accessible data: BEC.

Identity Theft 87

Identity Theft Phishing Accountability Banking 87

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.

Mobile 96

Mobile Passwords Software Accountability 96

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). Cybercriminals employed all manner of schemes to target businesses and individuals, including phishing, spoofing and tech support fraud, the FBI reported. This represents a 69% increase from the previous year and a total of U.S.

Cybercrime 52

Cybercrime Internet Internet Small Business 52

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. Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale. “Our

Data breaches 90

Data breaches Social Engineering Data collection Media 90

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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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. Smart attacks.

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Retail Digital transformation Advertising Software 138

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.

Education 109

Education Security Awareness Data privacy Social Engineering 109

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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Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 233

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.

Data breaches 70

Data breaches Passwords Banking Malware 70

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.

Accountability 97

Accountability B2B Risk Hacking 97

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. in Q2 2022.

Threat Reports 80

Threat Reports Phishing Malware Banking 80

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past ten years, his contact information has been used to register numerous phishing domains intended to siphon credentials from people trying to transact on various dark web marketplaces. “I used to steal their QIWI accounts with up to $500k in them,” Wazawaka recalled. ” WHO IS WAZAWAKA? .

DDOS 263

DDOS Accountability Cybercrime Ransomware 263

SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Kottmann also reportedly even posted some of the videos on Twitter, which later deleted the hacker’s account and their offending tweets. The one that scares me the most is that with this data and its analysis, adversaries could perpetuate not only cybercrimes, but also physical crimes like looting or kidnapping.”.

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Surveillance IoT Accountability Passwords 129

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? Paterson: So, with a level of non repudiation of the person who's calling in to access the account information or make changes to the account is the person who they say they are. Vamosi: Right.

Hacking 52

Hacking Authentication Artificial Intelligence Technology 52

Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Best of all, there is no incremental cost based on the volume of data collected. Playbooks allow you to respond to events within your environment such as notifications from a SIEM, suspected phishing emails, or alerts from asset monitoring. Additionally, you can also automate tasks as part of an incident response Workflow.

Technology 119

Technology Firewall VPN Authentication 119

Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform. In December another Twitter data leak made the headlines , a threat actor obtained data of 400,000,000 Twitter users and attempted to sell it.

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Accountability Hacking Data collection 98

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Using a malicious script, the attackers redirected their targets’ incoming email to an email address controlled by the attackers, gathering data from the compromised accounts. Although there was a public report of drones used to hack a Wi-Fi network in 2022, there are no accounts of similar events happening in 2023.

Hacking 102

Hacking Energy and Utilities Media Malware 102