Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming. Surveillance has become the business model of the internet, and there’s no reasonable way for us to opt out of it. What was manual and individual has become bulk and mass. Spying is another matter. Corporations will spy on people.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 28, 2025

Greek authorities, in cooperation with INTERPOL, traced the IP address to Windscribe’s infrastructure and, unlike standard international procedures, proceeded to initiate criminal proceedings against Sak himself, rather than pursuing information through standard corporate channels.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2025

A graphic from the FBI explaining how Funnull generated a slew of new domains on a regular basis and mapped them to Internet addresses on U.S. “We have stopped hundreds of attempts this year related to this group and we are looking into the information you shared earlier today,” reads a statement shared by Amazon.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2025

With Bastazo, Huff and his team are advancing a bold alternative: risk-informed remediation. LW: What does “risk-informed remediation” look like in practice? Risk-informed remediation ensures you are fixing unacceptable risk to your organization, but it also ensures you have the resources to perform that work.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

BEARHOST prides itself on the ability to evade blocking by Spamhaus , an organization that many Internet service providers around the world rely on to help identify and block sources of malware and spam. Kaspersky did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Image: cidr-report.org.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being “ USDoD ,” a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI’s InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. population. USDoD’s InfraGard sales thread on Breached.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey. “We have been playing cat and mouse for a while with these guys,” said Matt Sciberras , chief information security officer at Invicti.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2025

The CIA triad has evolved with the Internet. The emphasis on making information available overshadowed other concerns. the Internet of today. The first is granular access, which allows users and organizations to maintain precise control over who can access and modify what information and for what purposes.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 27, 2025

“All observed campaigns had similar traits and shared a common objective: collecting personal information from site-visiting victims. com), and uses a similar Google Forms page to collect information from would-be members. ” Further reading: Silent Push report, Russian Intelligence Targeting its Citizens and Informants.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

. “Cybercriminals are likely gaining access to compromised US and foreign government email addresses and using them to conduct fraudulent emergency data requests to US based companies, exposing the personal information of customers to further use for criminal purposes,” the FBI warned. Don’t be discouraged.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

French internet service provider (ISP) Free disclosed a cyber attack, threat actors allegedly had access to customer personal information. that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications to consumers in France. ” “Thus, this information should be taken cautiously until confirmed. Free S.A.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2025

.” Two other zero-days patched by Microsoft today also were elevation of privilege flaws: CVE-2025-32709 , which concerns afd.sys, the Windows Ancillary Function Driver that enables Windows applications to connect to the Internet; and CVE-2025-30400 , a weakness in the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) library for Windows.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

To reduce exposure to unauthorized residential proxy networks, monitor home network traffic, check IoT devices for suspicious activity, avoid unofficial app stores, and keep all systems updated, especially by patching known and internet-facing vulnerabilities promptly. Indicators of BADBOX 2.0

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. In an email to KrebsOnSecurity, booking.com confirmed one of its partners had suffered a security incident that allowed unauthorized access to customer booking information.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Employees of these companies were tricked into clicking malicious attachments and links and filling in their email account login information on fake sites. The entered information went straight to the phishers and allowed the criminals to monitor the emails of those employees.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers have discovered a huge Google Cloud Storage bucket, found freely accessible on the internet and containing a treasure trove of personal information. Medical records including diagnoses, treatment history, test results and other medical information that should be private.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Omni Family Health is notifying nearly 470,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised in a data breach resulting from a cyberattack that occurred earlier this year. The organization discovered the security breach on August 7, 2024, following claims that information was taken from its systems and leaked on the dark web.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2025

Since the empty folder is generally associated with an Internet Information Services (IIS) feature that most users will not be running, this called for an explanation. Internet Information Services (IIS) is a web server platform created by Microsoft to host websites, web applications, and services on Windows systems.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2024

” Recently, The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) announced it had blocked communication between the 30,000 devices infected with the BadBox malware and the C2. The BSI instructed all internet providers in the country with more than 100,000 subscribers to help it to carry out sinkholing operations.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

But the SEC’s latest actions underscore that failing to inform stakeholders about material risks and breaches is not an option. This could dovetail with a national information privacy law. The last thing we need is a patchwork of 50 different laws across the States.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. ” Ryan English , an information security engineer at Lumen, said it’s disappointing his employer didn’t at least garner an honorable mention in Versa’s security advisory.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 16, 2025

The ultimate goal of these kits, he said, is to phish enough information from victims that their payment cards can be added to mobile wallets and used to buy goods at physical stores, online, or to launder money through shell companies.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

“In an email to staff sent Thursday, the chief information officer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned that internal and external work-related meetings and conversations that involve nonpublic data should only be held on platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Cisco WebEx and not on work-issued or personal phones.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2025

Japan s Financial Services Agency (FSA) reported that the damage caused by unauthorized access to and transactions on internet trading services is increasing. from fake websites (phishing sites) disguised as websites of real securities companies.” ” reads the FSA’s alert.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As we reported in July, 2024, the tech giant said that due to feedback from authorities and other stakeholders in advertising, Google was looking at a new path forward in finding the balance between privacy and an ad-supported internet. They will even be able to make an informed guess if you visit the same site with a different browser.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

In particular, we recommend that you ensure that access to the management interface is possible only from trusted internal IPs and not from the Internet. The cybersecurity firm stated that it does not have sufficient information about any indicators of compromise. We are actively investigating this activity.” 173.239.218[.]251

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2025

Barnett said Microsoft’s advisory for this bug doesn’t quite join the dots, but successful exploitation appears to mean that portions of heap memory could be improperly dumped into a log file, which could then be combed through by an attacker hungry for privileged information. “A relatively low CVSSv3 base score of 4.6

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2025

8037 or newer The vendor also provided the following mitigation: “To minimize the potential impact of SSLVPN vulnerabilities, please ensure that access is limited to trusted sources, or disable SSLVPN access from the Internet. For more information about disabling firewall SSLVPN access, see: how-can-i-setup-ssl-vpn.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

North Korea-linked group APT37 exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack. “Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to first prepare the target so that it uses Edge in Internet Explorer Mode.”

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Internet Internet Engineering Malware 143

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2024

government indicted Matveev as a top ransomware purveyor a year later, offering $10 million for information leading to his arrest. “It’s possible this is a shakedown by Kaliningrad authorities of a local internet thug who has tens of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency,” Intel 471 wrote in an analysis published Dec.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

But in the background, their system has hidden malware in the file the victim has downloaded, which is capable of gathering information from the affected device such as: Personal identifying information (PII) including Social Security Numbers (SSN). Financial information, like your banking credentials and crypto wallets.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In particular, we recommend that you ensure that access to the management interface is possible only from trusted internal IPs and not from the Internet. The cybersecurity firm states that it does not have sufficient information about any indicators of compromise.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The cyber spies stole information belonging to targeted individuals that was subject to U.S. “T-Mobile is closely monitoring this industry-wide attack, and at this time, T-Mobile systems and data have not been impacted in any significant way, and we have no evidence of impacts to customer information,” a company spokeswoman told WSJ. “We

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2025

The company founded in 2001 offers prepaid and postpaid mobile plans, data bundles and internet services, fiber broadband, roaming and international calling, SIM-only plans and device deals. Compromised data includes full names, contact details, ID numbers, banking information, drivers license numbers, medical records and passport details.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2024

Kasmir Hill has the story : Modern cars are internet-enabled, allowing access to services like navigation, roadside assistance and car apps that drivers can connect to their vehicles to locate them or unlock them remotely. In recent years, automakers, including G.M., In recent years, automakers, including G.M.,

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The five core components of a VPN are: Encryption : The conversion of information into a coded format that can only be read by someone who has the decryption key. Kill switch: Blocks your device’s internet access if the VPN connection drops. It ensures that data remains secure and private during transmission or storage.

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