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Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising

Schneier on Security

The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: “ Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising. Banning surveillance-based advertising in general will force structural changes to the advertising industry and alleviate a number of significant harms to consumers and to society at large. Press release.

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Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US

Krebs on Security

com were paid for by the same account advertising a number of scam websites selling logo and web design services. Mirza’s LinkedIn profile says he currently runs an educational technology/life coach enterprise called TheCoach360 , which purports to help young kids “achieve financial independence.”

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How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

Krebs on Security

The 122 services targeted in Sanders’ research include some of the more prominent businesses advertising on the cybercrime forums today, such as: -abuse-friendly or “bulletproof” hosting providers like anonvm[.]wtf, wtf, and PQHosting ; -sites selling aged email, financial, or social media accounts, such as verif[.]work

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Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm

Krebs on Security

The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey. Silent Push said Araneida is being advertised by an eponymous user on multiple cybercrime forums. ” Orn advertising Araneida Scanner in Feb.

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Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach

Krebs on Security

The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The original October 31 post from abyss0, where they advertise the sale of data from several large banks that are customers of a large financial software company.

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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

That investigation detailed how the 38-year-old Shefel adopted the nickname Rescator while working as vice president of payments at ChronoPay , a Russian financial company that paid spammers to advertise fake antivirus scams, male enhancement drugs and knockoff pharmaceuticals. “I’m also godfather of his second son.”

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Ford seeks patent for conversation-based advertising

Malwarebytes

Car manufacturer Ford Motor Company has filed a patent application for an in-vehicle advertisement presentation system based on information derived from several trip and driver characteristics. Based on this info, the controller can decrease or increase the number of advertisements. Among those characteristics—human conversations.