SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Collecting information about a company from public sources. The first and simplest step that can be taken by cybercriminals is to gather data from publicly accessible sources. For example, in July of 2017, the data of 14 million Verizon users was breached due to incorrectly configured buckets. Identity theft.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s experienced explosive growth since it first appeared in 2017, and is now said to have well over 1.5 Since 2020, several governments and organizations have banned, or considered banning, TikTok from their staff’s devices, but a complete ban of an internet app would be a first in the US. Other countries have done this before.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit. The cybercrooks might also use the data to contact their victims later, staging a more convincing swindle. Cybercriminals chased seed phrases, used for recovering access to virtual funds.

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