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Facebook scrapes photos of kids from Australian user profiles to train its AI

Malwarebytes

Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data from the accounts of Australian adult users to train its AI models. Claybaugh said yes, but she added that accounts of people under 18 were not scraped. We don’t just report on threats—we remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Russia-linked APT28 group spotted exploiting Outlook flaw to hijack MS Exchange accounts

Security Affairs

Microsoft warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts. The French agency noticed that the threat actors used different techniques to avoid detection, including the compromise of low-risk equipment monitored and located at the edge of the target networks.

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

” Once inside of a target organization, the hackers stole source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data and other information they could use or resell. APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day. ” At the time of story, DaiLin was 28 years old. Chengdu404’s offices in China.

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From Cybercrime Saul Goodman to the Russian GRU

Krebs on Security

The leaked user database shows one of the forum’s founders was an attorney who advised Russia’s top hackers on the legal risks of their work, and what to do if they got caught. In almost any database leak, the first accounts listed are usually the administrators and early core members. This is the most important thing.

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France agency ANSSI warns of Russia-linked APT28 attacks on French entities

Security Affairs

The French agency noticed that the threat actors used different techniques to avoid detection, including the compromise of low-risk equipment monitored and located at the edge of the target networks. APT28 used the compromised email accounts to send malicious emails and compromised routers to recover exfiltrated data.

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Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin sentenced to 12 years in prison

Security Affairs

His alleged hacking activities “lay claim to the largest theft of US customer data from a single financial institution in history, accounting for a staggering 80 million-plus victims,”. From 2007 to 2015 TYURIN also conducted cyberattacks against multiple foreign companies. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Russia-linked APT8 exploited Outlook zero-day to target European NATO members

Security Affairs

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.