Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

The linked article focuses on misconfiguration, phishing issues, limiting data share, and the ever-present Internet of Things. Cryptocurrency wallet attacks. Digital wallet phish attempts are rampant on social media, and we expect this to rise. Below, we dig into a few of those. Ransomware supply chain triple-threat.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. The now-defunct and always phony cryptocurrency trading platform xtb-market[.]com,

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 30, 2023

million dollars-worth of illicit cryptocurrency profits. HIBP allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address or phone number has been compromised. But HIBP has also assisted governments, such as the UK, Australia, and Romania (to name a few), in monitoring for breaches in government domains.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. billion rubles. billion rubles.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ransom payments are generally demanded in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. Backups aren’t working. Just the ransom payment alone can be tremendously expensive. Why do businesses pay the ransom?

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

Below are figures from the IBM 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report : The average time to identify a breach in 2019 was 206 days The average time to contain a breach was 73 days , for a total of 279 days The potential damage, stealing of data, and widespread compromise that can happen in the meantime can be enormous and catastrophic to your business.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 24, 2022

While it did not identify LAPSUS$ as its attacker, LAPSUS$ later posted 190 GB of Samsung data, including Samsung’s biometric authentication and bootloader source code. Mid-March, popular game developer Ubisoft reported a data breach. It’s unknown what data was compromised.

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