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Data from 5.4M Twitter users obtained from multiple threat actors and combined with data from other breaches

Security Affairs

The massive data breach suffered by Twitter that exposed emails and phone numbers of its customers may have impacted more than five million users. At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform. The threat actor offered for sale the stolen data on the popular hacking forum Breached Forums.

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All You Need to Know About Emotet in 2022

The Hacker News

For 6 months, the infamous Emotet botnet has shown almost no activity, and now it's distributing malicious spam. Let's dive into details and discuss all you need to know about the notorious malware to combat it. Why is everyone scared of Emotet? Emotet is by far one of the most dangerous trojans ever created. The malware became a very destructive program as it grew in scale and sophistication.

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Ransomware gang targets Belgian municipality, hits police instead

Bleeping Computer

The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has published stolen data from what they thought was the municipality of Zwijndrecht, but turned out to be stolen from Zwijndrecht police, a local police unit in Antwerp, Belgium. [.].

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Apple Tracks You More Than You Think

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: WikiLeaks’ website is falling apart, tax websites are sending your data to Facebook, and cops take down a big phone-number-spoofing operation.

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The Importance of User Roles and Permissions in Cybersecurity Software

How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.

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USENIX Security ’22 – Guannan Liu, Xing Gao, Haining Wang, Kun Sun ‘Exploring The Unchartered Space Of Container Registry Typosquatting’

Security Boulevard

Our thanks to USENIX for publishing their Presenter’s USENIX Security ’22 Conference tremendous content on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. Permalink. The post USENIX Security ’22 – Guannan Liu, Xing Gao, Haining Wang, Kun Sun ‘Exploring The Unchartered Space Of Container Registry Typosquatting’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.