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Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

Krebs on Security

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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Mental Health Apps are Likely Collecting and Sharing Your Data

Security Boulevard

However, while these apps may provide mental health resources and benefits, they may be harvesting considerable amounts of information and sharing health-related data with third parties for advertising and tracking purposes. Disclaimer: This post is not meant to serve as legal or medical advice. and actively used/shared.

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Phishers migrate to Telegram

Security Affairs

Newbies get a taste of what phishing tools can do, pull off their first scam and wish for more, which is when they will be offered paid content. The creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data that is gathered with their tools. “Malicious actors offer “premium” phishing and scam pages for sale.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

net , a service that advertised to cybercriminals seeking to obfuscate their malicious software so that it goes undetected by all or at least most of the major antivirus products on the market. net , which advertised “free unlimited internet file-sharing platform” for those who agreed to install their software.

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The Telegram phishing market

SecureList

Once a URL is entered, the bot will generate several scam links targeting users of the service. We filled in the login and password fields in the screenshot below. “Yellow light data” in the screenshot below stands for “unknown data quality” This is probably an allusion to the yellow traffic light.

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Crypto-inspired Magecart skimmer surfaces via digital crime haven

Malwarebytes

From ransomware to password stealers, there are a number of toolkits available for purchase on various underground markets that allow just about anyone to get a jumpstart. In the next section, we will show exactly what happens during this process of data collection and exfiltration. Figure 16: Scam giveaway site.

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Promising Jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, ‘US Job Services’ Leaks Customer Data

Krebs on Security

By 2008, the USPS job exam preppers had shifted to advertising their schemes mostly online. com was legitimate or a scam. Mirza and his colleagues was actively uploading all of the device’s usernames, passwords and authentication cookies to cybercriminals based in Russia. com , and postalhiringreviewboard[.]org

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