Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2023

One of these apps is a content management system (CMS) that powers Bing.com and allowed us to not only modify search results, but also launch high-impact XSS attacks on Bing users.” “Those attacks could compromise users’ personal data, including Outlook emails and SharePoint documents.” ” continues the analysis.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we start a hopefully better 2021, we are taking a look back at the most searched and visited topics on the IdentityIQ blog during 2020. The top-10 most popular blogs on the IdentityIQ website last year were: Should You Pay Your Credit Card Statement Balance or Current Balance?

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Supply chain issues, inflation, a red-hot housing market, labor shortages and data breaches are just a few of the topics that affected our credit and personal finances. As the end of the year is approaching, we’re compiling our most searched and read topics of 2021. 8 Common Identity Theft Scams. Tips to Avoid Holiday Job Scams.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Every time you send a mobile payment, search for airline flight prices, or book a restaurant reservation - you are using an API. In this blog, we will explain the unique data security challenges for Telcos and three ways how both Thales and Red Hat can help them protect against future API attacks.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. 12 blog post , the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

Only apps published by the developers in the list below or apps in the Tier 1 list (Google’s Play Services, AGSA (Android Google Search app), Chrome, Cloud, Gmail, and Chrome Remote Desktop) are in covered by the new program: Google LLC Developed with Google Research at Google Red Hot Labs Google Samples Fitbit LLC Nest Labs Inc.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

How to Help Protect Your Digital Footprint IdentityIQ Every click, search, and interaction online contributes to your digital footprint – an intricate trail of data that encapsulates your digital identity. Your digital footprint is the trail of data you leave behind when you use the internet and digital devices.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

Data stolen from this kind of malware includes private keys, seed phrases, and wallet addresses, that could be used by threat actors to initiate fraudulent transactions. “Cryware are information stealers that collect and exfiltrate data directly from non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets, also known as hot wallets. .”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

This story is about the victims of a particularly aggressive business ID theft ring that’s spent years targeting small businesses across the country and is now pivoting toward using that access for pandemic assistance loans and unemployment benefits. Short Hills, N.J.-based For the past several months, Milwaukee, Wisc.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In a recent study of 1,237 Chrome extensions with a minimum of 1,000 downloads, Incogni researchers found that nearly half ask for permissions that could potentially expose personally identifiable information (PII), distribute adware and malware , or even log everything users do online, including accessing passwords and financial data.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Data compiled went back to 2011 — it had been gathered for more than 10 years. Creepily enough, Diachenko identified his own name in the data. Fans of the Netflix docudrama “The Serpent,” which told the story of Asian serial killer Charles Sobhraj, might infer that passport theft can lead down dark pathways.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

A former Ubiquiti employee has been sentenced to six years in jail for the theft of confidential data and extorting company for ransom. “In December 2020, SHARP secretly stole gigabytes of Company-1’s data. “In December 2020, SHARP secretly stole gigabytes of Company-1’s data.

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Identity IQ

MAY 22, 2023

This blog explores the ins and outs of dark web monitoring, including what it is, how it works, and whether it’s worth investing in for your protection. Dark web monitoring is a service that scans the dark web for stolen personal information, such as credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, passwords, and other sensitive data.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As the holiday season draws near, shoppers are eagerly searching for gifts online. Especially during the holidays, cybercriminals are eager to exploit and compromise your personal data. Webroot offers complete protection from viruses and identity theft without slowing you down while you browse or shop online. What is antivirus?

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A simple search could show you plenty. Type your name and address in a search bar and see what comes up. If you’re like most people, your search results turned up dozens of sites with your information on them. Data brokers. All part of a global data economy estimated at $200 billion U.S. Who’s behind all this?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

Then they opted for a credential theft technique that didn’t rely tools like Mimikatz because they are easy to detect. ” BlackCat ransomware operators used both MEGAsync and Rclone for data exfiltration, they renamed them as legitimate Windows process names (for example, winlogon.exe , mstsc.exe ) to avoid raising suspicion.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Every time you send a mobile payment, search for airline flight prices, or book a restaurant reservation - you are using an API. In this blog, we will explain the unique data security challenges for Telcos and three ways how both Thales and Red Hat can help them protect against future API attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cybercriminals are quickly ramping up efforts to exploit the critical flaw found in the widely used Log4j open-source logging tool, targeting everything from cryptomining to data theft to botnets that target Linux systems. Attacks Include Cryptomining, Data Theft. How the Log4j exploit works. Log4j attack traffic.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

It can also deploy web filtering, threat prevention, DNS security, sandboxing, data loss prevention, next-generation firewall policies, information security and credential theft prevention. . Thus SASE combines advanced threat protection and secure access with enterprise-class data loss prevention. The cyber threats landscape.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In this blog, we present an overview of how you can mitigate the risk of this vulnerability exploitation with McAfee Enterprise solutions. The impact on organisations varies between resource takeover, denial of service or data theft. You can perform real time searches in MVISION EDR to identify endpoints with Log4j binaries.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 12, 2023

Top 7 Data Security Practices for the Workplace IdentityIQ As businesses become increasingly reliant on technology, protecting sensitive information is more important than ever. Data breaches and cyberattacks can result in costly consequences, making strong data security practices essential. Smarter data policies.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here is a blog about the dark web I had written. please elaborate on that ; The dark web, also known as the deep web or darknet, is a part of the internet that is not indexed by search engines and can only be accessed using specialized software such as Tor. As a result, it poses a significant threat to consumers and businesses alike.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". Mister Chairman and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today concerning the security of credit data. My popular newsletter Crypto - Gram and my blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Before the.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2021

But obscuring your Internet activity—including the websites you visit, the searches you make, the files you download—doesn’t mean that a VPN magically disappears those things. It just means that the VPN itself gets to see that information instead.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

By allowing access to their APIs, Twitter ensures that developers can come up with their own unique ways of embedding Twitter’s data and functionality in their applications.”. -- How Leaked Twitter API Keys Can be Used to Build a Bot Army , CloudSEK. The vulnerability. State of API security: malicious attack traffic grew 117%. Related Posts.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

McAfee Enterprise provides regular publications on the strategies to defend against ransomware, such as this blog. In the second part of this report, we highlight how you can leverage the data from MVISION Insights to find traces of these attacks to enhance your level of protection. Other Recent Threats Affecting the Public Sector.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In this blog, we will share details of 4 groups of skimming attacks that have very little to no documentation in the public domain. Event Listener calls the sendCardData() function which further calls the getCardData() function to retrieve the payment card data information. Figure 3 shows the data exfiltration function.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

” reads the blog post published by Trend Micro. Experts found some similarities between the similarly structured strings of code and the format of the data targeted for theft. Once the malware is executed, it generates a unique ID and then collects targeted data and writes it to a file on the mobile device.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

According to SiteLock data, websites are attacked 94 times per day on average and IT Chronicles estimates that 4,000 cybercrimes are being committed each day in the United States alone. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is what determines if a business is compliant or not. Fraudulent charges.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 4, 2023

In this blog, we explore the ins and outs of utility payment reporting, including how it improves your credit and how to sign up for it. Search for your utility provider by typing the company name in the search bar. Enter the username and password for your utility accounts. What If I Miss or Am Late on a Utility Payment?

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

There was a rise in web defacements and data theft. However, a Google search turned up such proclamations for 2018, 2019, 2020, and even 2021. Hactivisim Increase I expected hacktivism to return, after declining since its peak in 2015. This was based on worldwide protests. With 2020, protests came to the USA.

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Hackology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Distributed through a possible watering-hole attack on the Hunza News website , the spyware prompts users to grant permissions, allowing access to sensitive data. This article explores Kamran’s operation, data exfiltration methods, and provides recommendations to mitigate the risk of falling victim to such attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2019

state to pass its own data privacy law. Last August, my colleague Ashvin Kamaraju wrote a blog shortly after this took place. For example, data collected by an entity may not be associated with an individual but could identify a household. 375 the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), making California the first U.S.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

On March 15th, research firm ESET reported a new data-wiping malware targeting Ukraine named CaddyWiper. [ 1 ] The malware “destroys user data and partitions information from attached drives”. Samsung Says Hackers Breached Company Data, Galaxy Source Code,” Bloomberg.com, Mar. It is unknown how Lapsus$ obtains initial access.

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McAfee

APRIL 6, 2020

Historically, default settings like public access to storage objects have left sensitive data out in the open, easy to steal by anyone crawling for these weaknesses. . IAM roles attached to an instance may for example, define that the instance and software running on it can access data in S3 storage buckets. .

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Eager and enthusiastic about the hunt, we would voraciously search through a deluge of false alarms (yes, the IPS did find a perimeter attack against Lotus Notes, but we had been using MS Exchange for over 5 years) and false positives (no, that’s not Duqu… just someone who cannot remember their AD credentials).

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