Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The FBI warned of a fresh wave of HiatusRAT malware attacks targeting internet-facing Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs. In March 2024, threat actors behind this campaign started targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. ” reads the PIN report.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

Key Findings Even years after their disclosure, VPN-related vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2022-40684 remain essential tools for attackers, driving large-scale campaigns of credential theft and administrative control. CVE-2018-13379: The Eternal Exploit What is CVE-2018-13379? Rated CVSS 9.8,

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Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2019

Federal Election Commission (FEC) said today political campaigns can accept discounted cybersecurity services from companies without running afoul of existing campaign finance laws, provided those companies already do the same for other non-political entities. They’re sort of making it up as they go along.” ” In May, Sen.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Transportation Command in 2017, after learning that their computerized logistical systems were mostly unclassified and on the internet. A 2018 GAO report expressed concern regarding the lack of secure and patchable U.S. .” That was Bruce’s response at a conference hosted by U.S. This is not speculative. weapons systems.

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SecureBlitz

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here’s the internet safety rules checklist. billion data breaches in 2018 alone. As technology and life online take over, protecting ourselves and our information on the internet and social media has become more critical than ever. Are you one of those people who worry about online data security? There were around 1.2

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

There’s no stopping the Internet of Things now. Commendably, the global cybersecurity community continues to push companies to practice cyber hygiene. trillion by 2026, up from $190 billion in 2018. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies Security have discovered several vulnerabilities in communication protocol GPRS Tunnelling Protocol ( GTP ), that is used by mobile network operators (MNOs). . phone number) of a real subscriber and impersonate him to access the Internet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Established in November 2018 and supported by 80 international states and more than 700 private enterprises, the Paris Call is based around nine common principles—from protecting the internet to defending the. The post US, EU Join Paris Call for Cybersecurity appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning organizations about Ghost (Cring) ransomware, a sophisticated cyber threat that has been compromising critical infrastructure, businesses, and government entities worldwide. Follow SecureWorld News for more stories related to cybersecurity.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2019

These are the carriers that provide Internet access to rural areas all across America. Remember when, over the course of the 2000s and 2010s, the cybersecurity industry innovated like crazy to address software flaws in operating systems and business applications? telecoms by Chinese tech giant Huawei. Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 23, 2021

While every business needs to prioritize cybersecurity, doing so is becoming increasingly complicated. As of 2018, more than 2 million people were working abroad for U.S. Here are five unique cybersecurity challenges you should know about. Similarly, different nations exercise varying amounts of authority over internet traffic.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

With the largest concentration of cybersecurity expertise –– the “oil” — in the world, Maryland is fast changing from the Old Line State into “Cybersecurity Valley.” and Tenable, which went public in 2018 with a market capitalization of approximately $4 billion. There’s oil in the state of Maryland – “cyber oil.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. ” A review of the email’s message headers indicated it had indeed been sent by the FBI, and from the agency’s own Internet address.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Achieving funding is no simple task, and cybersecurity entrepreneurs have a difficult path competing in a complex and competitive landscape. Luckily for cybersecurity startups, there’s no shortage of interest in tomorrow’s next big security vendors. Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2019

Wondering about the state of global cybersecurity in 2019? Wonder no more with these nine cybersecurity predictions for where the new year will take us — and what it means for our digital properties, online lives and livelihoods. The Internet of Things is a remarkable benchmark in human technological advancement.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.” ” Customers could search for infected systems with a variety of options, including by Internet address or by specific domain names associated with stolen credentials. Image: KrebsOnSecurity.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

“In the tech-heavy, geek-speak world of cybersecurity, these sorts of infographics and maps are popular because they promise to make complicated and boring subjects accessible and sexy,” I wrote in a January 2016 story about Norse’s implosion. By 2014 it was throwing lavish parties at top Internet security conferences.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

And, let’s be honest , the deceptive writing phishing assaults and other cyber threats today employ are skilled enough to fool even the most trained, internet-savvy experts. These scams take advantage of seniors’ lack of computer and cybersecurity knowledge. Internet and email fraud. Ever present threats.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

Basically, we know it when we see it, from bots controlled by the Russian Internet Research Agency to Saudi attempts to plant fake stories and manipulate political debate. In cybersecurity, this is known as a " kill chain." It may be necessary to pass laws requiring Internet companies to do this.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 19, 2021

The cybersecurity industry is hiring. In November 2018, The New York Times reported that a total of 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs would be available but go unfilled by 2021. million trained professionals to fill all available cybersecurity positions—a 62% increase of the global cybersecurity workforce. (ISC)2

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

or MEDC, I’m prepared to rechristen Michigan the Cybersecurity Best Practices State. I was recently privileged to be part of a group of journalists covering the 2018 North American International Cyber Summit at Detroit’s Cobo Convention Center. Related: California’s pioneering privacy law ripples through other states.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.” China has long targeted global internet service providers and recent attacks are aligned with past operations linked to Beijing. In 2018, data breach exposed personal information of up to 2 million customers.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Last month’s passage of the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 means all IoT devices used by government agencies will soon have to comply with strict NIST standards. Lastly, we touch on the political rationale of how the landmark IoT cybersecurity legislation came to be.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. There was another warning from the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 11, 2022

A cybersecurity firm says it has intercepted a large, unique stolen data set containing the names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers and dates of birth on nearly 23 million Americans. Milwaukee-based cybersecurity consultancy Hold Security said it intercepted a 1.6 Image: Shutterstock.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

nl — circa October 2018. Alex Holden , founder of the cybersecurity intelligence firm Hold Security, said Witte’s greatest lapse in judgment came around Christmas time in 2019, when she infected one of her own computers with the Trickbot malware — allowing it to steal and log her data within the botnet interface.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2022

This news, first reported by Motherboard , is the latest in a lengthening list of spyware brands breached due to their poor cybersecurity hygiene. In 2018, a hacker going by the initials L.M. The post Photos of kids taken from spyware-ridden phones found exposed on the internet appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. io emerged as subsidiaries of Microleaves between 2017 and 2018.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administratio n (CISA), Snatch was originally named Team Truniger , based on the nickname of the group’s founder and organizer — Truniger. ” In at least some of those recruitment ads — like one in 2018 on the forum sysadmins[.]ru 63 , which is in Yekaterinburg, RU.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2022

cybersecurity agencies joined their counterparts around the globe to urge organizations to address the top 15 vulnerabilities exploited in 2021. The cybersecurity authorities urged organizations to immediately apply timely patches to their systems and implement a centralized patch management system in order to reduce their attack surface.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

Over 2 million mobile applications wiped from Chinese app stores; CAC publishes new rules to target mobile Internet applications information services. The Chinese government took down over 2 million applications from Chinese app stores in just two years (2018-2020)!

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A review of the screenshots posted to the cybercrime forum as evidence of the unauthorized access revealed several Internet addresses tied to systems at the U.S. Other domains and Internet addresses included in those screenshots pointed to Miracle Systems LLC , an Arlington, Va.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

But this story is about so-called “bulletproof residential VPN services” that appear to be built by purchasing or otherwise acquiring discrete chunks of Internet addresses from some of the world’s largest ISPs and mobile data providers. WHAT IS RESNET? com , are hidden behind domain privacy protection.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Our most recent cybersecurity research is now available in the “ Cybersecurity Trends in 2019: Protecting Websites in the Age of Stealth Attacks ” report. To compile this cybersecurity industry report, we analyzed 6 million individual websites using an algorithm our team developed to evaluate website vulnerability.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The latest, major threats to Mac computers can steal passwords and credit card details with delicate precision, targeting victims across the internet based on their device, location, and operating system. With the right cybersecurity practices, everyday Mac users can stay safe from these emerging threats.

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