Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

From Kashmir Hill : Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your Facebook profile for advertising. So users who want their accounts to be more secure are forced to make a privacy trade-off and allow advertisers to more easily find them on the social network.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The charges include wire fraud, computer intrusion, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Ovsyannikov was arrested last month in Malaysia; Zhukov was arrested earlier this month in Bulgaria; and Timchenko was arrested earlier this month in Estonia, all pursuant to provisional arrest warrants issued at the request of the United States.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert about cyber criminals using a new methodology to defraud users – brand impersonation via search engine advertisement services. At first, cyber criminals buy advertisements that appear in internet […].

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2022

The Avast team has been interested to learn about a recent proposal put forth by politicians in the US House of Representatives which calls for an end to targeted advertising, AKA surveillance advertising. The post A New Way to Advertise Online | Avast appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 5, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed to ban the online counseling service BetterHelp from sharing its customers' sensitive mental health data with advertising networks and marketers. [.]

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Bleeping Computer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Security researchers at Norton Labs have found that roughly eight out of ten websites featuring a search bar will leak their visitor's search terms to online advertisers like Google. [.].

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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

million) fine against Microsoft's Ireland subsidiary for dropping advertising cookies in users' computers without their explicit consent in violation of data protection laws in the European Union. France's privacy watchdog has imposed a €60 million ($63.88

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 30, 2021

Amazon has quietly been hit with a record-breaking €746 million fine for alleged GDPR violations regarding how it performs targeted behavioral advertising. [.].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 16, 2021

million for selling user information to advertisement firms without the consent of its users on a respective note. The leaked info includes age, gender, advertising ID, HIV status and HIV testing dates, IP address, GPS Location, and their se$ual orientation. Grindr, the online dating app, has been slapped with a penalty of £5.5

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

France’s privacy watchdog fines €60 million Microsoft for using advertising cookies without explicit customer consent. France’s privacy watchdog fines €60 million Microsoft’s Ireland subsidiary for using advertising cookies without the explicit consent of its customers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

?Ragnar Locker Ransomware operators have started to run Facebook advertisements to force their victims into paying the ransom. Ragnar Locker Ransomware operators are improving their extortion technique and started running Facebook advertisements to make pressure on their victims and force them to pay the ransom. 9, on Facebook.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 24, 2021

The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: “ Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising. From the Introduction: The challenges caused and entrenched by surveillance-based advertising include, but are not limited to: privacy and data protection infringements. opaque business models. serious security risks.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 16, 2021

million fine by Norwegian regulator Datatilsynet for sharing data with advertisers. Grindr disclosed information about a user’s GPS location, IP address, mobile phone advertising ID, age and gender to several third parties for marketing purposes. Dating network Grindr has been slapped with a US$7.7 No consent, no app. Shared data.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 5, 2023

The post Meta Fined $414 Million by Irish Regulators for Using Personal Data for Advertising appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Privacy regulators ordered Meta Ireland to pay two fines, one over violations of the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation […].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 27, 2022

Are you seeing the same advertisement on all the websites that you are surfing? Nowadays, as soon as you search for a product online, the web search giant sells that data to advertisement firms that then sell that info to product selling companies based on the profile info of the searching person like gender, interest, age and such.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 18, 2022

The post Industrial Spy, a New Stolen Data Market Is Advertised via Adware and Cracks appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Unlike traditional stolen data marketplaces, where data is used to extort enterprises and threaten them with GDPR fines, Industrial Spy promotes itself as a marketplace where organizations […].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In the third week of August this year, UK’s Ministry of Defense posted an advertisement for a role to be filled by a SAS hacker who will earn £33,000 a year and will work for the secretive Computer Network Operations Exploitation Unit. Basically, such Ad postings are made secretly and through freelance platforms.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

France’s privacy watchdog fines €60 million Microsoft for using advertising cookies without explicit customer consent. France’s privacy watchdog fines €60 million Microsoft’s Ireland subsidiary for using advertising cookies without the explicit consent of its customers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2022

First, cohort analysis is typically used in marketing and advertising circles, and its success or failure will not entirely sink a business. The post Behavioral Analytics in Cybersecurity: Does It Work as Advertised? The key differences between cohort analysis and UEBA are twofold. Looking for More Cybersecurity Resources?

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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Mozilla says that Firefox users will be better protected from advertising trackers (like Google Analytics scripts) while browsing the Internet in Private Browsing mode and using Strict Tracking Protection. [.].

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2021

Now, in this post, we'll be presenting the advertiser’s perspective of the situation at hand. While advertisers may think the sky is falling, the full-on Chicken Little scenario might not be happening. The changes will make it harder – but not impossible – for advertisers to track users’ habits and target ads to their devices.

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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Telegram has launched a new advertising program dubbed Ad Platform and offering the opportunity to display sponsored messages on the instant-messaging platform. [.].

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

Tracking cookies have been a hot topic in recent months, as advertisers try switching to other methods of tracking. Third party tracking: An advertiser’s dream. A third-party cookie is being set by someone else, like an advertiser or ad network, via code embedded into the page. What are cookies?

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 30, 2021

Facebook has filed lawsuits against two groups of suspects who took over advertising agency employees' accounts and abused its ad platform to run unauthorized or deceptive ads. [.].

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The world’s most popular browser is about to make it a lot harder for advertisers to track your online activity.

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Heimadal Security

JULY 7, 2021

The post A New Threat Advertises Malicious Privacy Tools as Security Enhancers appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. An infostealer is a type of malware focused on gathering sensitive and conditional information from a compromised system. It is often related to user’s credentials but has also been […].

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2019

An Iranian developer is advertising on Telegram a Ransomware-as-a-Service called BlackRouter. The same expert advertises other malware and is believed to the author of another ransomware called Blackheart. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. promotes other infections such as a RAT.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 25, 2021

to restrict tracking by advertisers, and a discussion about why people continue to choose terrible passwords. ** Links mentioned on the show ** Instagram debuts new tool to stop abusive message salvos made through new accounts [link] Apple […].

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Online advertising is a data free-for-all. However, Amazon is doing so well right now because it has access to the data of every seller and advertiser using its platform. Between the two companies, two-thirds of the online advertising market is affected. The post Is Your Company Doing Market Research for Your Advertiser?

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Heimadal Security

JULY 1, 2021

Facebook is suing the suspects that took over the advertising agency employees’ accounts and managed to abuse the ad platform in order to run unauthorized or deceptive ads. The post Facebook Is Suing the Hackers That Hijacked Advertising Agencies’ Accounts appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. n, Lê Khang, Nguy?n

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

Until recently, AT&T also shared CPNI data with Xandr , whose privacy policy in turn explains that it shares data with hundreds of other advertising firms. EPIC says T-Mobile customer data sold to third parties uses another unique identifier called mobile advertising IDs or “ MAIDs.”

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The Hacker News

MARCH 13, 2023

A fake ChatGPT-branded Chrome browser extension has been found to come with capabilities to hijack Facebook accounts and create rogue admin accounts, highlighting one of the different methods cyber criminals are using to distribute malware. "By

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

Permalink The post USENIX Security ’22 – Sandra Siby, Umar Iqbal, Steven Englehardt, Zubair Shafiq, Carmela Troncoso – ‘WebGraph: Capturing Advertising and Tracking Information Flows for Robust Blocking’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2021

The post Security BSides Dublin 2021 – Kirill Efimov’s ‘Sour Mint – The Case Of Malicious Advertisement SDK Affecting Thousands Of Mobile Apps’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to Security BSides Dublin for publishing their outstanding videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2022

Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the “think of the children!” ” rhetoric we’re seeing in this current wave of the crypto wars.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The post Security BSides Dublin 2021 – Kirill Efimov’s ‘The Case Of Malicious Advertisement SDK Affecting Thousands Of Mobile Apps’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Just a month and a half away.

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Graham Cluley

MAY 26, 2022

for targeted advertising. Twitter has been fined $150 million for using phone numbers submitted by users to boost their security.

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