CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 27, 2022

Are you seeing the same advertisement on all the websites that you are surfing? Then probably you are one among those millions who are being targeted by digital marketing firms who buy data from tech giants such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and Facebook. But these days there is not much difference on it from others.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Facebook, Instagram , TikTok , and Twitter this week all took steps to crack down on users involved in trafficking hijacked user accounts across their platforms. Particularly prized by this community are short usernames, which can often be resold for thousands of dollars to those looking to claim a choice vanity name. THE MIDDLEMEN.

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Identity IQ

MAY 25, 2022

Are you looking to sell a couch, buy gently used patio furniture or offload that baby swing sitting in your basement for years? Facebook Marketplace has seemed to evolve into simply the best and easiest way to buy used items and pocket a little cash for those you no longer need. IdentityIQ.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Conor Freeman of Dublin took part in the theft of more than two million dollars worth of cryptocurrency from different victims throughout 2018. From there, attackers can gain access to any accounts that allow password resets via SMS or automated calls, from email and social media profiles to virtual currency trading platforms.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. An online post by the attackers who broke into Data Viper. The apparent breach at St.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 25, 2021

Advances in technology have dramatically influenced our online experiences throughout the digital age. Maintaining privacy online is far from easy. Who is tracking you online? Online tracking takes place whenever you visit a website, press the “like” button, send an email, shop online or use your favorite app.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 22, 2021

If you want to help secure your digital identity, a virtual private network (VPN) is a great tool you can use for added online privacy. In this guide, we discuss VPNs in detail, including how they work, how they protect you and why you should use one when browsing the web. Why Use a VPN?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the email address used by a cybercriminal actor who offered to sell the stolen ICRC data also was used to register multiple domain names the FBI says are tied to a sprawling media influence operation originating from Iran. “Check your email and send a figure you can pay.”

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Identity IQ

MAY 16, 2023

The Growing Threat of Google Voice Scams IdentityIQ Imagine this: You’re eagerly selling an antique dresser on Facebook Marketplace and a prospective buyer communicates interest in it. However, they express concern that you may be trying to scam them. Soon enough, a text message arrives from Google containing the code.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 3, 2021

Every move you make on the internet can be seen by your internet service provider, or ISP. Why it is obvious that tracking is done to monitor illicit activity, there are other reasons why ISPs are tracking your online activity. In reality, everything you do online is logged and tracked by your ISP. Data Retention.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

Researchers from Cyber News Team have spotted threat actors offering for sale 600 million LinkedIn profiles scraped from the platform, again. This time, the author of the forum post is purportedly selling information gathered from 600 million LinkedIn profiles. Original post: [link]. What’s being sold by the threat actor?

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 31, 2023

How to Identify and Avoid Holiday Phishing Scams IdentityIQ The holiday season brings joy, celebrations, and… a surge in online scams. While you’re shopping for gifts or booking flights, hackers are plotting to trick you into revealing your personal details and financial information. What Is a Phishing Scam? Their goal?

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Identity IQ

MAY 30, 2023

How Do You Know if Your Information Is On the Dark Web? IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet most people can’t access. It’s where illegal activities, like buying and selling drugs, weapons, and stolen personal information, take place. Cybercriminals and underground communities often use it.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Despite a slow, post-lockdown easing back to the "old normal," many businesses still have remote workers, or people working in different geographies. According to idClickThat, the only difference between the home page of the fake Zoom download sites and the real one is the addition of a "download" button in the main image.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Authorities in the United Kingdom have arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly operating an online service for sending high-volume phishing campaigns via mobile text messages. “But on the telecom front they were using fairly sophisticated tactics.” ” SMS Bandits offered an SMS phishing (a.k.a. Image: osint.fans.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Globally, gaming revenue amounts to an estimated US$242.39 By the year 2030, this worldwide total is expected to more than double to US$583.69 We also analyzed phishing pages using various game titles and gaming platforms as a lure. percent more than last year.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

There is a vast number of trackers , which gather information about users’ activities online. For all intents and purposes, we have grown accustomed to online service providers, marketing agencies, and analytical companies tracking our every mouse click, our social posts, browser and streaming services history.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

The Dutch police announced that they arrested two Dutch citizens, aged 24 and 15, for developing and selling phishing panels. The people behind this illegal business called themselves the Fraud Family and were active on Telegram to sell their panels to interested parties. 2FA bypass. Delay takedowns.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 15, 2021

Users of the employment-oriented online service are being targeted with an assortment of phishing emails and scams in an attempt to hijack their LinkedIn accounts or promote fake LinkedIn email leads. The Bitdefender Antispam Lab has spotted over 500 million scam emails selling premium LinkedIn leads from the US, UAE, Middle East and Canada.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Malicious ads, fake games, survey scams, phishing attacks…whatever you can think of, it’s in use. Some target kids and steal their accounts, selling them on. Others go after parents, who have their payment details tied to various platforms and consoles. Never do this if you can help it.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 24, 2022

The subject of the attack was an online platform, run by GM, to help owners of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac vehicles to manage their bills, services, and redeem rewards points. To stop a target from just blocking their IP address, an attacker will typically use rotating proxies. Credential stuffing. Stolen information.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2023, the public primarily confronted two varieties of online scams: the technical and the topical. A team of hackers can, say, boost their own info-stealing websites through Google search results, providing a veneer of authenticity to their malicious intent. But the tech support scam held up by “Wooflocker” is different.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. “He was selling the personal information on more than 200 million Americans and allowing anyone to buy it for pennies apiece.” Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 18, 2022

Should Google be used to find abortion providers out of state? Can people write on Facebook or Instagram that they will pay for people to travel to their own states, where abortion is protected? Should they continue to use a period-tracking app? The fact is that the majority of apps are harvesting data about you.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a smartphone, a laptop, a gaming device or something else, or even just signing up for an account online, you want to make sure your kids are protected. Nothing can replace having good and open communication with your kids. Keep your online accounts secure. Use strong passwords.

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Spinone

JULY 10, 2020

This means that if you are a company that somehow interacts with California residents’ personal data, it’s time for your business to iron out your CCPA compliance strategies. Otherwise, you are at risk of being fined from $2500 up to $7500 for each violation of the law. What are the CCPA requirements?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 28, 2021

That same day, Binance withdrew its services from Ontario, Canada after the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published a Notice of Hearing and Statement of Allegation against Bybit, another crypto trading platform that is based in Singapore, taking it as a sign for them to bail. When you know it is FUD.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 26, 2023

Most insurance companies nowadays offer multiple types of insurance products, or they sell policies on behalf of their partners. Managing digital identities across divergent channels, however, can be challenging, resulting in a fragmented and less secure user experience. Digital technologies play a key role in that process.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

He discovers the app has recorded his longitude and latitude coordinates “more than 2,700 times in less than five months”, and not just when the app was in use. The twist: he hadn’t used the app in hours. How can apps collect data? Geofencing will help get you to the store in the first place.

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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. Turns out all of this online profiling has a dark side. Turns out all of this online profiling has a dark side. Losing control of risk.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 8, 2024

Loose lips [might] sink ships ” was a phrase used in UK propaganda posters in WWII. Our guest speaker told us that the generals were often taken on walks around the estate well as field trips to London. It is long acknowledged that the use of torture or extreme duress in interrogations is no good for getting reliable information.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

Increasingly frequent, high-profile attacks like these are prompting some experts to say the surest way to safeguard one’s online accounts may be to disconnect them from the mobile providers entirely. A SIM card is the tiny, removable chip in a mobile device that allows it to connect to the provider’s network.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2023

Online criminals rarely reinvent the wheel, especially when they don't have to. During one of our crawls, we spotted a skimmer using the 'Mr.SNIFFA' framework that targets e-commerce sites and their customers. The product, called mr.SNIFFA, claims to have code that cannot be seen using browser tools and works across different browsers.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Hiep is an expert user of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms and is highly-skilled in incident response, DLP (data loss prevention), data mining, and threat hunting, among other things. The earlier cyber threat hunters can find threats, the earlier they can send them off to the remediation team. ’, and so on.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

What makes it so popular and, now it’s part of the social media landscape, can we trust it? Clubhouse was launched about a year ago and was initially only used by Silicon Valley’s rich and famous. It is different from other social media in that it focuses on the spoken word. The Clubhouse app. Chinese servers.

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Hacker Combat

APRIL 21, 2021

Another scheme of hackers in the midst of a pandemic is through the use of a contact tracing app to cover for phishing. Whether you own a huge company or operate a business online, your company is at risk for a cyberattack. This is the reason why you need to know about the different cybersecurity solutions.

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