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‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

Krebs on Security

In January 2024, The Manipulaters pleaded with this author to unpublish previous stories about their work, claiming the group had turned over a new leaf and gone legitimate. Since that story ran, KrebsOnSecurity has heard from this Saim Raza identity on two occasions. The first was in the weeks following the Sept. Image: DomainTools.

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Breach at Cloud Solution Provider PCM Inc.

Krebs on Security

PCM has nearly 4,000 employees, more than 2,000 customers, and generated approximately $2.2 One security expert at a PCM customer who was recently notified about the incident said the intruders appeared primarily interested in stealing information that could be used to conduct gift card fraud at various retailers and financial institutions.

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Microsoft Buys Corp.com

Schneier on Security

A few months ago, Brian Krebs told the story of the domain corp.com, and how it is basically a security nightmare: At issue is a problem known as " namespace collision ," a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet.

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Cloud Security Risk for Retail Companies: Why Ignoring Best Practices Could be Costly – The Redmart Story

Security Boulevard

In September 2020, Singapore-based online grocery store, Redmart, experienced a data breach that exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) of over 890,000 of its customers. The breach, which occurred due to a misconfigured AWS cloud resource, resulted in the exposure of customer names, passwords, and partial credit card numbers.

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12 Data Loss Prevention Best Practices (+ Real Success Stories)

eSecurity Planet

Consider these factors: Sensitive data handling: Determine whether your company handles customers’ personally identifiable information (PII), proprietary software code, product designs, or any other unique creations crucial for your company’s competitive edge. Proofpoint’s 2024 data loss landscape report reveals 84.7%

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Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t

Krebs on Security

In February, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a private citizen auctioning off the dangerous domain corp.com for the starting price of $1.7 Chances are good that at least some resources on the employee’s laptop will still try to access that internal “corp” domain.

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FBI Seizes Bot Shop ‘Genesis Market’ Amid Arrests Targeting Operators, Suppliers

Krebs on Security

Customers could search for infected systems with a variety of options, including by Internet address or by specific domain names associated with stolen credentials. “You also get all previous digital life (history) of the bot – most services won’t even ask for login and password and identify you as their returning customer.

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