Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

O’Neill said he opened the investigation into Ngo’s identity theft business after reading about it in a 2011 KrebsOnSecurity story, “ How Much is Your Identity Worth? As I wrote of Ngo’s service back in November 2011: “Superget lets users search for specific individuals by name, city, and state.

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Identity Theft Computers and Electronics Hacking Accountability 353

SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

CloudSorcerer is a sophisticated cyber-espionage tool used for stealth monitoring, data collection and exfiltration via Microsoft, Yandex and Dropbox cloud infrastructures. The data collected about the targets’ companies and contact information could be used to spy on people of interest and lay the groundwork for future attacks.

Energy and Utilities 105

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Malware Government 105

Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2020

The source code of the Zeus Trojan is available in the cybercrime underground since 2011 allowing crooks to develop their own release since. Data collected by the malware are then transferred to the operator’s command-and-control (C2) server. The malware is able to infect all operating systems.

Banking 143

Banking Advertising Malware Data collection 143

Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

It even collects what it calls " shadow profiles " -- data about you even if you're not a Facebook user. This data is combined with other surveillance data the company buys, including health and financial data. Collecting and saving less of this data would be a strong indicator of a new direction for the company.

Advertising 250

Advertising Surveillance Engineering Encryption 250

Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2019

Even if in Italy the cells of the popular Anonymous collective are very active , the overall number of hacktivist attacks that caused in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 percent since 2015. Researchers analyzed data collected by IBM’s X-Force threat intelligence unit between 2015 and 2019.

Advertising 94

Advertising Data collection DDOS Healthcare 94

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Attackers also used legitimate versions of WinRAR appear for data exfiltration and batch scripts to automate the data collection process. In some cases threat actors staged stolen data for further exfiltration. ” concludes the report that includes IoCs and Yara Rules.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Malware Data collection Encryption 98

Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2023

Waterfox came into the browser scene in 2011, coming right out the box with official x64 support (a rarity among browsers at the time) and promoted itself as an "ethical browser." However, many things have changed in the browser landscape, and even the Waterfox project as whole since 2011. Additionally, the default search remains Bing.

Data collection 52

Data collection Engineering Encryption DNS 52