Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

the global leader in safeguarding enterprises from digital attacks with modern defense , today announced the takedown of a highly sophisticated ad fraud operation where more than 1,700 apps were spoofed, targeting 120 publishers, running ads within apps on nearly 11 million devices, and reaching a peak volume of 12 billion ad requests a day.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

The third-party library can perform ad fraud by clicking advertisements in the background without the user’s consent. “The tags such as ‘ads_enable’ or ‘collect_enable’ indicates each functionality to work or not while other parameters define conditions and availability.”

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2024

This can then be used to commit fraud or fool individuals with an intent to earn money, especially because today we are seeing AI and deep fakes that could result in the loss of someone's lifelong savings. it becomes a potential attack vector for someone who can corelate this information with other publicly available info," Sarkar said.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

” states the complaint filed in the Southern District of New York for computer fraud and abuse, trademark infringement, and other claims. TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers. The IT giant also removed 1,183 Google accounts, 908 cloud projects, and 870 Google Ads accounts used by the operators.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

“The malware has been used to create residential proxy services to shroud malicious activity such as password spraying , web-traffic proxying and ad fraud,” the Lumen researchers wrote. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Whereas such agility lays the groundwork for an effective fraud, it's not the only pillar of a successful phishing campaign. The catch was that the document contained a function to transform these gibberish-looking symbols into hexadecimal values that denoted specific JavaScript tags. Tactics matter a lot, too.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 31, 2023

A new FBI report reveals that Americans lost more than $10 billion last year to online scams and digital fraud. This is the first of a five-part series from Ed Amoroso of TAG Cyber exploring the risks to cloud email environments. People in their 30s, who are among the most connected online, filed the most complaints."

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2021

Extending this mission to its partner network, the company also announced the formation of The Human Collective , a program aimed towards protecting the digital advertising ecosystem from the impacts of fraud. The post HUMAN Cements Leadership Position in Bot Mitigation and Fight Against Fraud appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The e-skimmer was first spotted by experts with Visa’s Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) initiative in February 2020 while analyzing a command and control (C2) server employed in another campaign and that hosted an ImageID e-skimming kit. “The most compelling components of this kit are the unique loader and obfuscation method. .”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

According to a recent IBM report , breaches now come with a record-high price tag of $10.1 The industry houses valuable patient data in abundance, and cybercriminals have become skilled at using powerful hacking tools to launch more weaponized and severe ransomware attacks against providers. million patients.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

Imagine how much money advertisers could save by effectively tackling ad fraud. Plus, that sounds a lot better than tagging another tracker on us. Hiding consent. The worst bit of your ISP enabling the tracking is that every user has to sign some sort of agreement with them.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 31, 2023

Kind of like how we use hashtags to tag different information in our social media posts. This enables automated processing of financial report contents for investors and the SEC in order to do things like spot inconsistencies or signs of malicious intent such as fraud.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

This requirement can stymie efforts by companies like ZeroFOX that focus on identifying newly-registered phishing domains before they can be used for fraud. Nixon said many companies will likely balk at the price tag associated with equipping each employee with a physical security key.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If that secure connection somehow fails — the encryption is broken, user data is stolen through some type of middleman attack — the SSL issuer will pay out to the victim of the fraud. These amounts and specifics vary by issuer, so do your research to find out what their warranty promises.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 31, 2023

Kind of like how we use hashtags to tag different information in our social media posts. This enables automated processing of financial report contents for investors and the SEC in order to do things like spot inconsistencies or signs of malicious intent such as fraud.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 23, 2023

Researchers have successfully dismantled a massive ad fraud campaign they stumbled upon by accident. The researchers said they came across the VASTFLUX operation while investigating a different ad fraud scheme. Apparently, this campaign was an adaptation of an earlier ad fraud scheme called Matryoshka that made headlines in 2020.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But we’re also the only major Protective DNS provider that also offers a world-class threat intelligence solution for threat investigators, fraud researchers, and sensitive law enforcement and agency work. You can group by malware family, malware tags, and C2 ASNs. What about a longer time horizon, you ask?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2023

Researchers dismantled a sophisticated ad fraud scheme, dubbed VASTFLUX, that targeted more than 11 million devices. HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team dismantled a sophisticated ad fraud operation dubbed VASTFLUX. The threat actors evaded ad verification tags to avoid detection.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular. A file that attempts to pass itself as ‘image/png’ but does not have the proper.PNG format loads a PHP web shell in compromised sites by replacing the legitimate shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake.PNG file.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Now we're looking at loss prevention in a different way with these RFID tags and readers," Miller said. "So You can just stick one of those RFID tags and if it leaves through this port, which is the only way to get in or out of the place where it is being held, then you're going to know where it is.". More sessions with solid content.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2018

More than 6 weeks after that tweet, Monza bank in the UK identified a pattern of Ticketmaster customers experiencing card fraud. It later eventuated that the compromise was due to a single line of code or more specifically, a script tag on Ticketek's website that embedded a chatbot from a company called Inbenta.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It can also identify objects, texts, and scenes by tagging them through scalable deep learning technology. While it does this, Face First prevents loss, fraud, and identity spoofing attacks using real-time alerts. Amazon Rekognition has been well regarded by government agencies and other secure users.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 20, 2021

If you've been tagging along on my tiki-tour of the topic-specific policy examples in ISO/IEC 27002:2022 , and if you read that LinkeDin piece by Chris Hall that I recommended , you will probably by now recognise the standard document structure we've adopted for all our policy templates. Policy title , big and bold to stand out.

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Fox IT

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Our hypothesis is that EvilCorp had started to use the Bitpaymer ransomware to extort organisations rather than doing banking fraud. Among this information, the keys ‘tag’ and ‘pwd’ appear to be very important too. The ‘tag’ key represents a command (different from table 2 set) that the node will execute once it receives the record.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. As time progressed, online fraud became ever more sophisticated and persuasive. Phishing and scams: current types of fraud. These are hyped up through ads, hashtags, or mass tagging of users in posts, comments, or on photos.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Joker’s Stash – the infamous underground marketplace – put a USD 1,985,835 price tag on the set, at USD 5 apiece, and announced that dump had 30-40% valid rate. 1 – Advertisement for new base on Joker’s Stash. The total number of records exposed is 397,365.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 24, 2021

However, the method of using personal items as proofs of identity has not faded with history, with institutions such as the military using dog tags as individual identifiers for each soldier. The system was designed to speed up the verification process for government agencies while reducing fraud. 1046 BC – Tattoos.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2023

using our tag "CryptoScam" (as of this writing we have 3600+ sites on the list -- hosting companies and registrars, please take action!) and some of their investigators and they fight hard to protect the citizens of Alabama from fraud. You can find a list of some of the sites we've identified so far on URLScan.io

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

But it’s not unheard of for hosting providers to forge certain documents in their quest for additional IP space, and anyone caught doing so via email, phone or fax could be charged with wire fraud , which is a federal offense that carries punishments of up to $500,000 in fines and as much as 20 years in prison. WHAT IS RESNET?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The Daily Beast ‘s Kevin Poulsen broke the news last week that federal authorities in Alaska indicted Kenneth Currin Schuchman of Washington on two counts of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by using malware to damage computers between August and November 2017. They were under attack from a new Mirai variant.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

To ensnare users, bad actors publish sketchy news with well thought out structures of tags and keywords that correspond to hot topics. Some iterations of this fraud would redirect users to a phishing page that asked visitors to provide personal data to turn on the password cracking functionality.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The vast array of frameworks, tools, and solutions like zero-trust , SIEM , and IDPS would likely not exist in the forms they do now, with the price tags they do now, without the relevant threat of hackers and malware.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

This appears to be precisely what the file name suggests - statuses posted to Gab. And the trend just continues. Gab isn't a free speech alternative to incumbent tech behemoths with a rich collection of wide-ranging views, rather it's an echo chamber of the same political, religious and scientific opinions.

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