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Internet Safety Month: Avoiding the consequences of unsafe Internet practices

Malwarebytes

By focusing on this context, we hope that you’ll come away with a stronger understanding about, for instance, why you should use a password manager rather than that you should use a password manager. By selling fake raffle tickets for the promotion, the scammers raked in $438,000 worth of cryptocurrency.

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CERT-UA warns of malspam attacks distributing the Jester info stealer

Security Affairs

The Jester stealer is able to steal credentials and authentication tokens from Internet browsers, MAIL/FTP / VPN clients, cryptocurrency wallets, password managers, messengers, game programs, and more.

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Ukraine Nabs Suspect in 773M Password ?Megabreach?

Krebs on Security

The SBU said they found on Sanix’s computer records showing he sold databases with “logins and passwords to e-mail boxes, PIN codes for bank cards, e-wallets of cryptocurrencies, PayPal accounts, and information about computers hacked for further use in botnets and for organizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.”

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Will 2019 Be the Year Cybersecurity Goes Mainstream?

Adam Levin

It’s still a relatively uncommon exploit, but if you are visibly in possession of something hackers want–whether it’s a cool “OG” handle on social media, cryptocurrency or the codes to launch nuclear war–the assaults on attractive targets will increase in 2019.

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“Chemical attack” email warnings deliver Jester Stealer malware

Malwarebytes

The list of potential target areas includes: Internet browsers MAIL/FTP/VPN clients Cryptocurrency wallets Password managers Messengers Game programs. Jester Stealer is also capable of swiping screenshots a nd stealing network passwords. Impact on affected systems.

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Types of Encryption, Methods & Use Cases

eSecurity Planet

Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel, like a password manager. Symmetric encryption works much the same way — to encrypt and decrypt messages with a single, shared key.

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The dark web index 2021, report

Security Affairs

Cryptocurrencies are represented in hacked accounts to trading sites. Monero is the cryptocurrency of choice, instead, and all communications must be PGP encrypted. Cryptocurrency trading accounts. Other cryptocurrencies have increased in value as well. Use a reliable password manager. Hackers love it.