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Malwarebytes
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Today is the 20th Safer Internet Day. Since 2004, there's been an annual event designed to "Promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world." The Windows Firewall enabled by default, and the Internet Explorer popup blocker.
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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Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies. Meanwhile, the chairman of China's technology giant Huawei has pointed to NSA spying disclosed by Edward Snowden as a reason to mistrust US technology companies.
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. The attackers continued to send malicious documents via email until the end of September 2022.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 10, 2019
Malware researchers at antivirus firm Dr Web discovered more than 33 Android Apps in the Google Play Store with over 100 million installations that contain a clicker Tojan tracked as Android. ”This technology simplifies the connection of various premium services, but it is often used to illegally subscribe users to premium services.”
The Last Watchdog
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Google, Facebook and Amazon have gotten filthy rich doing one thing extremely well: fixating on every move each one of us makes when we use our Internet-connected computing devices. We’re talking about things like consumer data collection, data management platforms and retargeting enablement systems.
SecureList
OCTOBER 25, 2023
It’s worth noting that web browser support for credential harvesting extends beyond well-known browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, and includes such lesser-known browsers as Nichrome, Xpom, RockMelt, Vivaldi, SaMonkey, Epic Privacy, and Brave. In the Linux version, it also gathers OpenSSH keys stored in $HOME/.ssh
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