CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 27, 2021

Highly placed sources say that Ragnarok that also involved in double extortion tactics shut its doors because of the constant surveillance of the law enforcement agencies of west. In a month or so, a special task force linked to UK’s NCSC was about to track down the criminals to their headquarters.

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Hacker Combat

MAY 19, 2021

Some of the basic features that a good antivirus should have include; Malware detection and removal, firewall, virus scan, auto-sandboxing technique, backup, identity protection, social media protection, and email protection. Offers no Backup. Another disadvantage of the Avast app is that it doesn’t have cloud or SD backup.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2020

“Stadler internal surveillance services found out that the company’s IT network has been attacked by malware which has most likely led to a data leak. The company’s backup data are complete and functioning. Stadler did not pay the ransom and has resumed operations by restoring its backups. ” reported the Swiss media.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

NCA infiltrates the cybercriminal underground with fake DDoS-for-hire sites Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 awarded $1,035,000 and a Tesla for 27 0-days CISA announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications initiative China-linked hackers target telecommunication providers in the Middle East City of Toronto is one of the victims hacked by Clop gang using GoAnywhere (..)

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2024

The approved Bitcoin ETFs will be subject to ongoing surveillance and compliance measures to ensure continued investor protection.” Store the displayed backup code in a safe place in case you need it. Click Get started Open your preferred authentication app and add the X account to the app. You’re all set.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

A common example of this is surveillance. We normalize the use of surveilling and tracking young people through "parentware" or spyware (software which allows someone to see what someone else is doing on their device) and apps which enable the tracking of someone's location. Earlier, I discussed the normalization of surveillance.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Uber scam lures victims with alert from a real Uber number Teaching cybersecurity skills to special needs children with Alana Robinson: Lock and Code S02E18.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In August, Gunnebo said it had successfully thwarted a ransomware attack, but this week it emerged that the intruders stole and published online tens of thousands of sensitive documents — including schematics of client bank vaults and surveillance systems.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It has been reported that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which handles national security FISA warrants, was not affected by the attack. We're all so dependent on IT-based systems now that to try to move back to a paper-based system as anything other than a backup would lead to all sorts of holdups.

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Hacker's King

MAY 20, 2023

Exploiting earlier generated tokens: Strengthening Backup Measures Some systems allow users to generate backup codes or recovery tokens during the 2FA setup process. Service providers can implement measures like CAPTCHA and rate-limiting to detect and block brute-force attempts. You may also like: Is Every Hacker Is Same?

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Webroot

JULY 8, 2021

Presumably this has to do with whether a target had readily available backups, and lost time due to back and forth with extortionists or time spent making a payment. Were a cybercriminal to compromise a trusted supplier to distribute ransomware, rather than for surveillance as in that attack, the costs could be enormous.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Remcos, short for Remote Control and Surveillance, was leveraged by malicious cyber actors conducting mass phishing campaigns during the COVID-19 pandemic to steal personal data and credentials. physically disconnected) backups of data. Qakbot can also be used to form botnets. Remcos installs a backdoor onto a target system.

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Malware Banking Penetration Testing Healthcare 86

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Expert found Russias SORM surveillance equipment leaking user data. Ransomware attack hits DDS Safe backup service used by hundreds of dental offices. BRATA, the Android RAT that infected only Brazilian users. Foxit Software discloses a data breach that exposed user passwords.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 18, 2022

With billions of Internet-connected devices like cars, household appliances, surveillance cameras, and network devices online, IoT devices are a very large bullseye for botnet malware. Another is the usage of Linux as the go-to operating system for many IoT devices.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Instead of encrypting the hard drives of individual victims, and demanding payments of a few hundred dollars, a skilled team collaborated to break into an organization’s network; surveil the network layout; and then embed the malware. The SamSam group were pioneers,” Shier says.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Building security and fobs; Video surveillance equipment; Conference room systems (e.g., This could include things like: Building security monitoring; Web hosting; Web design; Digital marketing; and Offsite backup servers. Items like: Storage and email servers; Modems, routers, patch panels, and switches; Devices (e.g.,

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In a moment I’ll share a couple of travel stories from a well-known hacker, one who took creepy surveillance technology and flipped it around. Sometimes you can use surveillance tools in your favor. Not everything works out the way you think so I prefer to keep everything with me as much as possible. So let’s get started.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Citizens, for their part, are increasingly concerned with surveillance capitalism , a lack of anonymity and dependence on online services. Facebook (now Meta) moved towards more privacy for its users as well, providing end-to-end encrypted backups in WhatsApp and removing the facial recognition system in its entirety from Facebook.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The only thing that might have alerted my wife to this unintentional surveillance—but never did—was my initial in a small circle at the top right corner of her phone, when she used the Google Play app. Under Settings > Accounts and Backups > Manage Accounts I found my Google account listed.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

In our examples, the clothing brand secures a segregated design team with physical locks on the doors, extra computer security to prevent digital theft, and a backup solution for their marketing data. The design company will install surveillance cameras and data loss prevention (DLP) technology to monitor physical and digital theft attempts.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2022

It would allow Apple to deny access to an encryption service provider that provides encrypted cloud backups to the cloud (which Apple does not currently offer). ” For example, today Apple only offers unencrypted iCloud backups, which it can then turn over governments who claim this is necessary for “public safety.”

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Spinone

JULY 1, 2019

Backup employee’s data There are two ways to backup important company’s data: Automatically with the help of third-party services like Spinbackup Your company data can’t be secure if you just save them occasionally. Spinbackup doesn’t only backup your critical G Suite data. Get a Demo Step 8.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

From a technical perspective, spyware—defined as software running on the device that surveils and tracks you—is not much of a thing, because of Apple’s restrictions on what apps can do, plus the fact that you can’t hide an app on iOS. Apple has gone bananas… and who is Keith?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Citizen Lab found that an exploit for CVE-2021-30860 was being used by the NSO Group , an Israeli tech company whose spyware enables the remote surveillance of smartphones. So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Physical Security Measures At their data centers, IaaS companies apply stringent physical security measures such as access restrictions, surveillance, and environmental controls. This helps to prevent unwanted physical access and safeguards the physical infrastructure that hosts the virtualized resources.

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Spinone

JANUARY 5, 2021

If something happens with one warehouse that con Also, unlike most on-site solutions, these places are guaranteed to 24/7 surveillance and armed security guards. This is why it is necessary to always backup cloud data and protect it with Data Loss Prevention Policies. Event logging and workload audit. These logs record network actions.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Discrete batch-mode data transfers ( e.g. sending backup or archival tapes to a safe store, or updating secret keys in distributed hardware security modules), routine/regular/frequent transfers ( e.g. strings of network packets), sporadic/exceptional/one-off transfers ( e.g. subject access requests for personal information) or whatever.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ongoing surveillance and response The implementation of ThreatDown MDR services on January 18th, 2024, was a strategic move by the MSP to gain deeper insights into the attackers’ movements. Detection of malware leveraging RMM tools. Changing all administrative and local passwords three times to fortify security.

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McAfee

MAY 20, 2021

This subject has become increasingly important following the Schrems II decision and its requirement that organizations when processing personal data must ensure their privacy is not put at risk and subject to governmental surveillance when shared across borders. development, debugging and maintenance), and backup (e.g. ” [6].

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The course consists of four modules: Hackers Exposed: You will find out methods that stop hackers, block tracking, and prevent government surveillance. Price: free Duration: 5 weeks Format: you get lessons in your email every two days. At the end of every lesson, you get a question that is related to the topic to check your knowledge.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Search Warrant: Can render backups of a target device; if target uses iCloud backup, the encryption keys should also be provided with content return. User activity on WeChat has been known to be analyzed, tracked and shared with Chinese authorities upon request as part of the mass surveillance network in China.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It was all but impossible to decrypt the files without the decryption tool, but victims could avoid paying a ransom by restoring encrypted files from backups. This gave victims an incentive to pay the ransom even if they could restore their system from backups.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Security infrastructure and redundancy: Check the vendor’s data centers, network architecture, backup and disaster recovery plans, and uptime assurances.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

The Cyber-attack resulted in a large volume of data to be encrypted including database servers and backup data. This involves addressing the Cybersecurity Blind-Spot found in existing products, by implementing an offensive, anti-surveillance Cybersecurity capability into a full SEIM and EDR product. 4securitas.com ).

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 11, 2021

And Cloud service providers have made it a point to make their security as robust as possible, relieving businesses of many of the basics they struggle with, such as backups, single sign-on, encryption, firewall configuration, and consistent security updates—you name it.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Once a system is infected, ransomware attacks usually come in 3 stages: Surveillance: The hackers scan their target for more information on the system they are attacking. To apply more pressure, the attacker might also encrypt backup files to render them inaccessible. This means the files can’t be restored without the attacker’s help.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, banned an app called SpyPhone, and its CEO Scott Zuckerman, from operating in the surveillance industry. Vamosi: There's also Pegasus, a type of surveillance software created by NSO in Israeli security company. And what if that unease was coming from your mobile device.

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