Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day Samsung discloses a second data breach this year The Prynt Stealer malware contains a secret backdoor. users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2023

It’s like a “how-to” book for the software. This would make it extremely complicated for the company to inform its clients about a data breach or to warn them of malware attacks,” researchers said. What DepositFiles data was exposed? The config file is an essential part of any system. researchers said.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Several large companies were hacked in the first half of September. All of the attacks were carried out with relatively simple phishing and social engineering techniques. In the IHG hack, a couple from Vietnam claimed they were attempting to deploy ransomware on the network. Phishing and poor password practices.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

More Phishing Attacks. Phishing may seem like an ordinary part of online life, but it could also be the initial volley in a major cyberattack. Phishing here is shorthand for the Pantheon of Ishings: generic, spearphishing (personalized), vishing (phone based), and SMishing (text based). It may look just like the real thing.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Second, personal information could be used for phishing, identity thefts and other attacks, targeting individuals,” our researchers said. Attackers could log in, read, and copy the contents or, if user privileges allow, modify or delete the data.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

New Google bug bounty allows reporting the abuses of Google API, Chrome, and Android user data. Flight booking platform Option Way exposes customer and internal data. USBAnywhere BMC flaws expose Supermicro servers to hack. XKCD forum data breach impacted 562,000 subscribers. Crooks stole €1.5

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Target the human, swipe the cash: Verizon DBIR 2023 highlights crime trends Manage the human risk and mind your money: those are two key takeaways from Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. Phishing frauds involving email, text messages and video were up by 417 per cent in the same time period.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 12, 2021

This post has been brewing for a while, but the catalyst finally came after someone (I'll refer to him as Jimmy) recently emailed me regarding the LOQBOX data breach from 2020. The data never began circling within the usual hacking groups, it never turned up publicly and thus never appeared in Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Million by Dutch and UK Data Protection Authorities over data breach. · AccuDoc Data Breach impacted 2.6 A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! 20% discount. Kindle Edition.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. France data protection agency fines Uber 400k Euros Over 2016 Data Breach. Hacking the Twinkly IoT Christmas lights. Hackers launched phishing attacks aimed at bypassing Gmail, Yahoo 2FA at scale.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

At least a dozen patriotic Russian hacking groups have been launching DDoS attacks since the start of the war at a variety of targets seen as opposed to Moscow. DON CHICHO & DFYZ The data breach tracking service Constella Intelligence reports that an Ivan V. Mr. Neculiti confirmed personally registering this domain.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In today’s digital age, the threat of data breaches is a constant concern. Therefore, it is crucial to understand what hackers are planning to do with your data and take proactive measures to protect it. The main point is money is a big motivation to steal data. Which threat actors would like to obtain which data?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy. · What Happens to Whistleblowers After They Blow the Whistle?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. States also differ on other data privacy and IT security compliance laws. In the U.S., for example, all 50 states (along with the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. billion records exposed in 2,308 disclosed data breaches in H1. · Marap modular downloader opens the doors to further attacks. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! 20% discount. Kindle Edition.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2018

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites. taxpayers hit by a phishing campaign delivering the Amadey bot. One of the hackers behind EtherDelta hack also involved in TalkTalk hack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Very few weeks go by without news of another cyber attack or data breach and a quick scan of the BBC news website shows that in most months, there is at least one story that makes the national news headlines. The attack was reportedly due to ransomware, thought to have been the result of phishing. In February 2020, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

They act carelessly, repeating passwords for personal and professional accounts or leaving flash drives with private data at a coffee shop without intending to cause harm. Some are unaware of their involvement and fall victim to social engineering techniques like phishing scams.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Reverse RDP Attack – Rogue RDP Server can be used to hack RDP clients. Android devices could be hacked by viewing a malicious PNG Image. Phishing campaign leverages Google Translate as camouflage. 20% discount.

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 20, 2023

This increases the likelihood of making mistakes, such as clicking on phishing links, sharing data in insecure ways, using weak passwords, or not spotting cyber threat patterns. Organisations When employees suffer from burnout, their brains become tired and less able to cope with the demands of their job.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

These days, hacking as a service is cheap. That could be through common hacking techniques like phishing, bait and switch, cookie theft, deep fake , password cracking , social engineering , and so on. IBM found that the average time to identify a breach in 2019 was 206 days. Human error causes many data breaches.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To train your employees and protect company data from human mistakes and, therefore, costly data breaches; 3. 3 Basic Cyber Security Training Courses For Everybody The best cyber security courses online listed below contain the information everybody must know to keep their data safe in the high-risk online environment.

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NopSec

APRIL 7, 2019

For even more details, and implementation examples in Python, we highly recommend Machine Learning & Security book by Clarence Chio and David Freeman – many of the examples we used in the webinar and in these posts are discussed in more detail there. For more details, the webinar is available on demand here.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog. Street @jaysonstreet.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It really didn’t concern commercial organizations until the late 1990s, until the widespread use of the World Wide Web made it possible for organizations to suffer data breaches or denial of service attacks. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Is it a phishing campaign?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The reservation system Prestige Software’s “Cloud Hospitality” allows operators at hotels to integrate their reservation systems with online booking websites like Booking.com. GB worth of data) related to guests at various hotels around the world. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Prestige). According to the experts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “ Yalishanda ,” “ Downlow ” and “ Stas_vl ” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers. and Europe.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

It is apparent to even the most casual observer that successful cyber-attacks are happening at an alarming frequency, and it is happening to trusted institutions where we all believed our private data was secured and impenetrable from unscrupulous fraudsters, criminals or even state sponsored hacking by some rogue Governments.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. One of the eight required domains in the current CISSP certification process is Identity and Access Management, or IAM.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Vamosi: Whenever there’s a data breach or an attack, I look at how long the bad actor was active on the compromised network. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. VAMOSI: The bad actors can enter through phishing attacks, but the question is where can they hide on your system.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

There’s been a major data breach, and you’re booked on the next night flight out, at 6am. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. So definitely a bit of, you know, more of the same answers via phishing emails, steal credentials, gain access to the data in the cloud.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

From the report: "The Twitter Hack is a cautionary tale about the extraordinary damage that can be caused even by unsophisticated cybercriminals. I still remember reading hacker Kevin Mitnick's book "Ghost in the Wires" a few years ago. However, investigators says the biggest problem they uncovered was poor cybersecurity at Twitter.

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s likely we’ll continue to witness a significant shift in the motivation behind prominent cyberattacks, as data sources indicate a resurgence in activities such as information theft, covert communication monitoring, and content manipulation from state sponsored attackers and cybercriminals. Data poisoning will gain popularity in 2024.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2018

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