CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 27, 2022

Nisos provides the people, processes, and technologies necessary to deliver actionable intelligence as a managed service. Nisos curates target-specific keywords for tuning broad social media, open web, as well as deep and dark web collection tools. They fuse robust data collection with a deep understanding of the adversarial.

Risk 136

Risk Media Data collection Security Intelligence 136

SecureList

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As we were collecting and analyzing the relevant telemetry data, we realized the campaign had been launched in mid-August 2022 and targeted over a dozen corporations in Eastern Europe from the oil and gas sector and defense industry. It is a special malware module designed to send commands to the infected system via removable media.

Malware 98

Malware Phishing Internet Internet 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). The FBI compiles the statistics, recently published in its Internet Crime Report 2020 , from complaints filed through www.ic3.gov. This represents a 69% increase from the previous year and a total of U.S.

Cybercrime 52

Cybercrime Internet Internet Small Business 52

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Counterfeit goods are not the only threat to popular brands on the Internet. Scammers create fake websites of known brands, fraudulent promotional campaigns, and fake accounts on social media. Fraudsters use various ways to deceive users: phishing websites, fake mobile apps, accounts and groups on social media.

Marketing 79

Marketing Phishing Media Engineering 79

SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Worried about this lack of transparency, users and privacy watchdogs put pressure on technology companies. Certain tech giants recently started adding tools to their ecosystems that are meant to improve the data collection transparency. Iran also has local tracking services that internet users there encounter fairly often.

Internet 91

Internet Internet Advertising Marketing 91

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Google, Facebook and Amazon have gotten filthy rich doing one thing extremely well: fixating on every move each one of us makes when we use our Internet-connected computing devices. We’re talking about things like consumer data collection, data management platforms and retargeting enablement systems.

Retail 138

Retail Digital transformation Advertising Software 138

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

This colorful chapter in the history of technology and society isn’t just breezing by unnoticed. The largest players in the tech industry need to demonstrate that they can self-regulate, or else lawmakers will take over a core asset of their business – consumer data – as demonstrated by California’s consumer privacy act.

Data privacy 196

Data privacy Manufacturing Education Technology 196

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

How residential proxies using real IPs from diverse locations enable businesses to gather comprehensive and accurate data from the web Since the adoption of the first digital tools and connection to the internet, the competitive business environment has revolutionized and transformed the ways modern companies conduct business operations.

Marketing 91

Marketing Data collection Internet Internet 91

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

Period-tracking app users scrambled to find the most secure app online , and one period-tracking app maker promised to encrypt user data so that, even if law enforcement made a request for their data, the data would be unintelligible. Those promises, one investigation found, were shaky.)

Data privacy 67

Data privacy Engineering Encryption Internet 67

Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

And new mechanisms, from ChatGPT plugins to LangChain , will enable composition of AI with thousands of API-based cloud services and open source tools, allowing LLMs to interact with the internet as humans do. Combine the digital dossiers that data brokers have on all of us with LLMs, and you have a tool tailor-made for personalized scams.

Phishing 288

Phishing Scams Surveillance Internet 288

Malwarebytes

MARCH 14, 2024

TikTok is an immensely popular social media platform that allows users to create, share, and discover, short video clips. Since 2020, several governments and organizations have banned, or considered banning, TikTok from their staff’s devices, but a complete ban of an internet app would be a first in the US. social media applications).

Identity Theft 99

Identity Theft Government Media Data collection 99

SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Doxing refers to the collection of confidential information about a person without their consent for the purpose of inflicting harm on that person or to otherwise gain some benefit from gathering or disclosing such information. Collecting information about a company from public sources.

Identity Theft 87

Identity Theft Phishing Accountability Banking 87

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The report, titled “ Everyone’s afraid of the internet and no one’s sure what to do about it ,” reveals the dismal rates of adoption for antivirus software, two-factor authentication (2FA), password managers, and unique passwords across online accounts. These numbers are less open to interpretation.

Surveillance 109

Surveillance Passwords Software Technology 109

SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., According to thought leaders, the compromise of video data could result in intellectual property theft, physical security threats, privacy violations, extortion and perhaps regulatory punishment.

Surveillance 129

Surveillance IoT Accountability Passwords 129

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Bandura Cyber is a 6-year-old supplier of threat intelligence gateway technologies. It helps organizations of all sizes but has a solution that is well suited to enable more resource constrained SMBs, tap into the myriad threat feeds being collected by a wide variety of entities and extract actionable intelligence.

Ransomware 153

Ransomware Government Firewall Cyber Insurance 153

SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The other two variants should be loaded with the legitimate VLC.exe media player, which is abused to sideload the malicious library. The threat actor usually collects files from many different hosts and stores them in archives that are then exfiltrated from the targeted network using public file storage services. SCRIPT_NAME%.ps1

Encryption 112

Encryption Passwords Malware Firewall 112

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you've registered for online banking over telephone banking, then they're using Voiceprint technology to pre-authenticate you when you call into the system. There's a bunch of different technologies there. On the internet no one knows you are a dog, but actually they do know something about you.

Hacking 52

Hacking Authentication Artificial Intelligence Technology 52

Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2022

Excessive data collection. Carr cited several incidents as evidence that TikTok has been dodgy about its data collection practices. It is something that a number of social media apps do without checking your browser history across other apps. Relation to the CCP (Communist Party of China).

Risk 145

Risk Data collection Surveillance Media 145

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Formerly known as Accel Partners, the Palo Alto-based company is a top-tier VC firm investing in consumer and enterprise solutions for segments like SaaS , fintech, hardware, media, and IT services. Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include AVG Technologies, Cognitive Security, OpenDNS, and Carbon Black. EEP Investments.

Cybersecurity 122

Cybersecurity Technology Marketing Healthcare 122

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

And then the internet came along and made that a whole lot easier. Now, we moved into a world of automatic mass surveillance with the rise of the internet and the rise of cheap data storage and processing. I have access to AI tools in a way that I don’t have access to data collection regimes.

Surveillance 73

Surveillance Government Advertising Spyware 73

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com).

Banking 362

Banking DNS Internet Internet 362