Malwarebytes

MARCH 8, 2021

Source: Horti Daily) A federal judge has approved a $650m settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users. Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, our podcast featured Eva Galperin who talked to us about defending online anonymity and speech.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Rapid7 found a bypass for the recently patched actively exploited Ivanti EPMM bug Russian APT29 conducts phishing attacks through Microsoft Teams Hackers already installed web shells on 581 Citrix servers in CVE-2023-3519 attacks Zero-day in Salesforce email services exploited in targeted Facebook phishing campaign Burger King forgets to put a password (..)

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 12, 2021

Analyst1 grouped affiliated ransomware gangs under the “Ransom Cartel” tag. Malware: Maze ransomware (previously known as ChaCha), Egregor ransomware , Qakbot worm, other commodity exploit kits. Although some of them have already denied their connections, evidence contradicts this. Who is in the cartel? LockBit gang.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For example, the Mozi_ssh is a crypto mining trojan that spreads worm-like through SSH weak password and it uses the same wallet address of nd Mozi_ftp use the same wallet. “The discovery of Mozi_ftp, Mozi_ssh gives us clear evidence that the Mozi botnet is also trying to profit from mining. ” continues the post.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000. One of the most popular early instances of computer viruses is the Morris Worm. Launched on November 2, 1988 and named for its creator, Robert Morris, the Morris Worm was also not intentionally designed to damage infected machines.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. Although 2022 did not feature any mobile intrusion story on the scale of the Pegasus scandal, a number of 0-days have still been exploited in the wild by threat actors.

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