Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Tripwire VERT security team spotted almost 800,000 SonicWall VPN appliances exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw. Security experts from the Tripwire VERT security team have discovered 795,357 SonicWall VPN appliances that were exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 28, 2021

In layman’s terms, a VPN uses encryption to create a private online connection between a device and a VPN server. With a good VPN service, you can shield your data from curious eyes. The type of VPN protocol that you use can affect the speed, stability, ease of use, security, and privacy of your connection.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 24, 2021

In just the past year, free VPN for Android apps have exposed the data of as many as 41 million users, revealing consumers’ email addresses, payment information, clear text passwords, device IDs, and more. All these people that work on [the VPN service], nobody is going to do it for free. There is no best free VPN for Android.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Europol this week announced the shutdown of VPNLab, a VPN service that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. An international operation conducted by law enforcement bodies from 10 countries took down VPNLab.net, a VPN service provider that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. ” continues the EUROPOL. Europol said.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

DarkHotel nation-state actor is exploiting a VPN zero -day to breach Chinese government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai. State-sponsored hackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Sangfor SSL VPN servers to gain access to victims’ networks. Up to now, a large number of VPN users have been attacked.”

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

In addition, we speak to Malwarebytes senior security researcher JP Taggart about the importance of trusting your VPN. But obscuring your Internet activity—including the websites you visit, the searches you make, the files you download—doesn’t mean that a VPN magically disappears those things. Source: ComputerWeekly).

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

Related: VPNs vs ZTNA. It’s in findings of a deep dive data analytics study led by Surfshark , a supplier of VPN services aimed at the consumer and SMB markets. Much of the hard evidence came from correlating breached databases sitting in the open Internet. LW: What strategic shifts have VPN vendors been making, Covid19?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

One in four internet users use a VPN regularly, but how much does the average user know about what goes on behind the software? Pulling back the curtain, a VPN runs on various VPN protocols that govern the way a VPN client communicates with a VPN server. IKEv2 is uniquely suited to mobile VPN solutions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

Chinese authorities continue operations against unauthorized VPN services that are very popular in the country. China continues to intensify the monitoring of the cyberspace applying and persecution of VPN services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2021

A coordinated effort between global law enforcement agencies—led by the Dutch National Police—shut down a VPN service that was advertised on cybercrime forums. The VPN company promised users the ability to double- and triple-encrypt their web traffic to obscure their location and identity. One of those options is DoubleVPN.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 6, 2020

Keep reading the definition until you understand then proceed: Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send an unsolicited message, especially advertising Alrighty, so it's an unsolicited message (I certainly didn't ask for it) and it's intended to advertise your work.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2018

A security issue exists in Kaspersky VPN <=v1.4.0.216 which leaks your DNS Address even after you’re connected to any virtual server. In this context, with the term “DNS leak” we indicate an unencrypted DNS query sent by your system OUTSIDE the established VPN tunnel. Securi ty Affairs – Kaspersky VPN, privacy).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2021

As part of this mindset, more consumers are subscribing to a personal VPN service which they use to shield themselves from disinformation sweeps and to protect themselves from Covid 19-related hacks and scams. I’ve since discovered that there’s a heck of a lot going on in the B2C VPN space. percent ten years ago.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

The providers are trying to sell this idea by telling the public that the identifier can never be tracked back to an individual and that something needs to be done to keep the internet free. Advertisers are seeing the end of the tracking cookie on the horizon and it’s coming closer. Free internet. The end of the tracking cookie.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

For less than a dollar per day, Faceless customers can route their malicious traffic through tens of thousands of compromised systems advertised on the service. Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us , a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They come in all shapes and sizes, lurking in the shadowy corners of the internet. You can also be a good internet citizen by forwarding these scams to the U.S. That’s where a virtual private network (VPN) swoops in like a digital superhero to save the day. Let’s embrace the golden rule of scam detection: skepticism.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. Quotpw/Ahick/Edgard/ципа advertising his coding services in this Google-translated forum posting.

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Webroot

APRIL 3, 2024

Update your Internet browser Browser updates often contain security patches that address known vulnerabilities. Use a VPN to browse privately A virtual private network (VPN) enhances your online privacy and helps keep your identity safe. Make sure to keep it updated to guard against the latest threats.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 25, 2021

And in many cases the information can and will be used for targeted advertising. You can also tighten your privacy by using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to anonymize your traffic. Besides using a VPN, you can also look at some alternative browsers that are already optimized for privacy and security. How long did they stay?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The p opular ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service have been blocked by the Russian government this week. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Although they’re most popularly known as just “cookies”, they may be referred to as browser cookies, Internet cookies, HTTP cookies, web cookies, computer cookies, or digital cookies. Many people associate cookies with the cross-site tracking used by advertising companies. Will a VPN stop tracking cookies?

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2019

Innovative Connecting is actually a Chinese company that secretly owns 10 VPN products with a total of 86 million installs under its belt. The study also revealed that two of those VPN products are under its other developer name, Lemon Clove, and another two by Autumn Breeze 2018. Innovative Connecting VPNs products.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2021

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, our podcast featured Malwarebytes senior security researcher JP Taggart, who talked to us about why you need to trust your VPN. But obscuring your Internet activity—including the websites you visit, the searches you make, the files you download—doesn’t mean that a VPN magically disappears those things.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2020

Telecom Argentina , one of the largest internet service providers in Argentina, was hit by a ransomware attack. Immediately after the attack was detected by the internal IT staff, the company warned its employees of not connecting its internal VPN network and avoiding opening emails with suspicious archive attachments. million ransom.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io. ” SPEAR VISHING.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

“The FBI is informing academic partners of identified US college and university credentials advertised for sale on online criminal marketplaces and publically accessible forums. In May 2021, cybercriminals offered more than 36,000 login credentials for.edu email accounts and advertised the data on an instant messaging platform.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 19, 2022

VPNLab.net was a virtual private network provider that mostly advertised its services on the criminal side of the Dark Web, and provided services for various cybercriminals, including ransomware gangs. What is double VPN? Double VPN is basically what the name suggests. Double VPN is not a common feature, because it is very slow.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2023

through 4.73, VPN series firmware versions 4.60 The researchers warned that as of May 19, there were at least 42,000 instances of Zyxel devices on the public internet. Since the vulnerability is in the VPN service, which is enabled by default on the WAN, we expect the actual number of exposed and vulnerable devices to be much higher.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world targeting Pulse Secure , Fortinet , Palo Alto Networks , and Citrix VPNs. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In a bid to minimize these scenarios, a growing number of major companies are adopting “ Security.txt ,” a proposed new Internet standard that helps organizations describe their vulnerability disclosure practices and preferences. An example of a security.txt file. Image: Securitytxt.org. well-known/security.txt.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Employees already have their laptops configured just the way they like them, and they don't want another one just for getting through the corporate VPN. Others, like Internet-enabled game machines or digital cameras, are truly special purpose. Already there are companies that give away long-distance minutes in exchange for advertising.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. under the name Alexandru Florea , and the username “ Acidut.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Your IP or Internet Protocol address is your digital identity on the internet. It may be used to download unauthorized stuff or may be used for uploading disputed content on the internet. VPN or Virtual Private Network is the most secure way of connecting with the online world. Ways of Protecting IP Address from Hackers.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 3, 2021

Every move you make on the internet can be seen by your internet service provider, or ISP. Discover why your ISP is tracking you, what they can see, and how you can get more privacy while browsing the internet. Once you connect to the internet, your ISP assigns an IP address to your connection. Use A VPN.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Since early February, the Russian government has blocked other encrypted email and VPN services in Russia, including ProtonMail and ProtonVPN VPN service. The Russian government asks all Internet service providers and VPN providers operating in the country to provide information about their users. Pierluigi Paganini.

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