Schneier on Security

MAY 9, 2019

The most prominent black hat companies for US Amazon sellers offer ways to manipulate Amazon's ranking system to promote products, protect accounts from disciplinary actions, and crush competitors. One black hat company charges as much as $10,000 a month to help Amazon sellers appear at the top of product search results.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

political campaigns, cities and towns had paid a shady company called Web Listings Inc. after receiving what looked like a bill for search engine optimization (SEO) services rendered on behalf of their domain names. The missives appear to be an $85 bill for an “annual search engine listing” service. Helpmego.to

Scams 259

Scams Marketing Internet Internet 259

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

. “Snatch threat actors have been observed purchasing previously stolen data from other ransomware variants in an attempt to further exploit victims into paying a ransom to avoid having their data released on Snatch’s extortion blog,” the FBI/CISA alert reads. BAD BEATS Reached via Telegram, Perchatka (a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. Multiple trusted sources told KrebsOnSecurity that Sosa/King Bob was a core member of a hacking group behind the 2022 breach at Twilio , a company that provides services for making and receiving text messages and phone calls. Image credit: Amitai Cohen of Wiz. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

At a court hearing in Bulgaria this month, the accused hacker requested and was granted extradition to the United States, reportedly telling the judge, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.” ” Kloster’s blog even included a group photo of RSOCKS employees.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Once vetted and accepted, threat hunters will go into these message boards and communities and search for anything connected to your business, for example: •Corporate login credentials. Hackers use these credentials to try and get a foothold inside a targeted company. Data collections released after ransomware attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Related: How ‘business logic’ hackers steal from companies. For instance, the The Last Watchdog article you are reading uses a CMS to store posts, display them in an attractive manner, and provide search capabilities. What about public information? A big concern on Wikipedia is vandalism. Gierlinger.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh , which claims to be based in the United States. But a recent investigation by Reuters raised questions about the company’s real location and truthfulness.

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Mobile Malware Technology Government 240

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Related: ‘BEC’ bilking on the rise These attacks prompt the target to scan a QR code and trick them into downloading malware or sharing sensitive information. Since June, there has been a fourfold increase in the search volume around keywords associated with these types of attacks.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 24, 2019

The data leak was initially found by Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery.com on Shodan, an IoT-centric search engine. This raises the question of how charities and non-profits with limited resources can afford to safely manage millions of sensitive files,” wrote Diachenko in a blog detailing his findings.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to. While the protection of the company’s assets can never be completely guaranteed, security awareness training should be a top priority for business owners. This can be risky.

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Passwords Security Awareness Data breaches Cybersecurity 214

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2022

After receiving many complaints, Google has announced it has filed a lawsuit against a company that has made it its business to impersonate Google. The company going by the name of “G Verifier” deployed telemarketing and website tactics that were intended to persuade people they were doing business with Google itself.

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Scams Small Business Marketing Engineering 96

Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

BlackCat (aka ALPHV) Ransomware gang introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents. They introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents leaked in the TOR network. Additional info is available in the post published by Resecurity on its blog: [link].

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Ransomware Passwords Data breaches Technology 83

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A search in Google for a string of text from that script turns up a December 2023 blog post from cryptocurrency security firm SlowMist about phishing attacks on Telegram from North Korean state-sponsored hackers. “When the project team clicks the link, they encounter a region access restriction,” SlowMist wrote.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

BloreBank Chatbot is a prompt injection game where you try to trick the AI into giving away sensitive information. With 10 levels, each one adds new safeguards against these tricks, making it tougher to get information you’re not supposed to. Your objective outlines the specific information you need to uncover.

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Banking Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity 81

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

In addition, 16Shop employed various tricks to help its users’ phishing pages stay off the radar of security firms, including a local “blacklist” of Internet addresses tied to security companies, and a feature that allowed users to block entire Internet address ranges from accessing phishing pages.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. CERT-UA started investigating the attack after it received information about an attack against an ICS system of one of the state organizations of Ukraine. ” reads the alert published by CERT-UA.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Shoppers love the convenience of personalized experiences that their data powers, but then horror stories such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal make people skeptical about how much information companies should be collecting and sharing. Check out the examples below from Forrester’s blog. Degrees of privacy.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. For example, search in Google for the terms “booter” or “stresser” from a U.K.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

There is no shortage of innovative cybersecurity tools and services that can help companies do a much better job of defending their networks. For organizations looking to improve their security posture, this is causing confusion and vendor fatigue, especially for companies that don’t have a full time Chief Information Security Officer.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 4, 2019

We take the security of customer information extremely seriously. The leaked data was initially indexed by IoT-centric search engine Shodan on May 9, was discovered May 14, and taken offline May 16. “We The unsecured data contained photographs, usernames, full names, and photo captions, including those marked by users as private. “We

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Fraudsters may use personal relationships to extract sensitive information or gain access to company networks. Thus, an employee compromised by a romance scam can inadvertently become a weak link in the company’s cybersecurity defenses. This transparency can be crucial in preventing security risks to the business.

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Scams Cryptocurrency Media Education 80

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This search via Urlscan reveals dozens of recent phishing attacks that have leveraged the Slinks feature. Way back in 2016, security firm Fortinet blogged about LinkedIn’s redirect being used to promote phishing sites and online pharmacies. Here’s one example from Jan.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 24, 2020

Related: Life insurance types explained From shopping to socializing or paying their bills, people seem to be doing everything online these days, so it was only a matter of time until insurance companies stepped into the digital world. Madison Life insurance companies that run their operations online can also cut down on infrastructure costs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2021

Researchers discovered the availability in the DarK Web of 30M of records of Americans affected by the Astoria Company data breach. The data listed for sale included 400 million Facebook users, a database allegedly containing Instagram users, and a dump allegedly containing 300 million user database from Astoria Company.

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Data breaches Insurance Banking Marketing 105

Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company. A search on this name at Facebook turned up a page for another now-defunct business called Yamosoft.com that lists Algangaf as an owner. ‘FATAL’ ERROR.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts. Just to scroll back for a bit of context, anyone who owns a domain can do a free domain search on HIBP. And then it took off. This post talks about how I'm addressing that.

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Government Data breaches Passwords Authentication 188

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When you load a web page, an array of scripts, cookies, and code starts chugging away behind the scenes gleaning information about who you are, where you are, how you got to the site, what you’re clicking on, and where you go next. The information is arguably more sensitive since it pertains to what makes a business tick.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 8, 2023

We previously covered attacks on both consumers and businesses via online searches for popular brands leading to scams or malware. In this blog post, we investigate a malicious ad on Microsoft Bing for LooksRare, an NFT marketplace. In this blog post, we investigate a malicious ad on Microsoft Bing for LooksRare, an NFT marketplace.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With more than 60 million terminals and service provided in over 120 countries, many people around the world have used the devices by this China-headquartered company while shopping—knowingly or not. We are not aware of any physical threat to the surrounding community related to this search. October 26, 2021. Why was U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. Using the Shodan search engine the experts discovered three IPs associated with misconfigured Elasticsearch clusters. ” reads a blog post published by HackenProof. citizens (i.e.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Incognito mode protects my personal information from bad actors. Furthermore, once malware is installed on your device, it’s still tracking your activity and stealing sensitive information, even in incognito mode. If you want to browse safely, you need to take control and inform yourself of the reality of the threats.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

LinkedIn has announced a new set of security features that will help verify user identity, remove fraudulent accounts, and boost authenticity, according to an official blog post from the company. To combat these threat actors, LinkedIn has announced three new features.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

The toolkits released by IBM are already available for macOS and iOS, the IT company plan to release also Android and Linux versions. FHE could allow associating data to be shared without exposing it while processing the information. ” reads a blog post published by IBM. ” reads a blog post published by IBM.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 29, 2022

The company said in a blog post that it’s rolling out the labels—which it calls the Google Play Data safety section —gradually to users. Indeed, the search giant followed Apple’s lead when it introduced app privacy labels in its App Store in December 2020.

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Data collection 76

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2024

BloodHound Enterprise (BHE) recently saw the addition of a new, game-changing feature: open-ended Cypher searches. Referencing the below image, select the Folder icon (1) which will open our Pre-built Searches. Selecting Search will then return a similar result should your own environment have several instances of domain trusts.

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Accountability 72

The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

Whenever you access a web server, details about your IP address, your browser information, your device information, and other information are recorded in logs. This is why you often see ads for hotels in a specific location after performing a search for holiday destinations. More about it can be found on Smartproxy.

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Advertising Internet Internet Accountability 290