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.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2019

. “The hackers behind it reportedly took advantage of poorly configured routers that had the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service enabled, which caused the routers to forward public ports to the private devices and be open to the public internet,” reads the analysis published by Yang.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2021

Detailed credentials for more than 21 million mobile VPN app users were swiped and advertised for sale online last week, offered by a cyber thief who allegedly stole user data collected by the VPN apps themselves. According to TechCrunch: “NordVPN told TechCrunch that one of its data centers was accessed in March 2018.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russia’s financial sector. million (2.96 million (2.96

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Group-IB Threat Intelligence continuously detects and analyses data uploaded to card shops all over the world,” – said Dmitry Shestakov, Head of Group-IB ?ybercrime According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, 1.8 ybercrime research unit.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This skills deficit has been the top worry of IT pros for several years, according to tech consultancy ESG’s annual survey of IT pros; some 53% of the organizations participating in ESG’s 2018 -2019 poll reported a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity skills. Digital transformation has only exacerbated this security skills gap.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

This information was first made public by experts from Group-IB’s Brand Protection team at the CyberCrimeCon 2018 international cybersecurity conference. Counterfeit goods are not the only threat to popular brands on the Internet. billion in 2017, compared to $1.2

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report published in September 2018, Silence gang members presumably were or are legally employed as pentesters and reverse engineers. The report “Silence: Moving into the darkside” was published in September 2018 and was the first to describe the group’s tactics and tools. About MoneyTaker.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Using web shells, they attacked weak internet servers, specifically a Houston port. Reconnaissance Reconnaissance is the starting point of Volt Typhoon’s cyber campaign, characterized by thorough planning and data collection. government and defense institutions for intelligence gathering.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2019

On June 28, 2018 the governor of California Jerry Brown signed into law with Assembly Bill No. state to pass its own data privacy law. For example, data collected by an entity may not be associated with an individual but could identify a household. The CCPA, which will come into effect on Jan. Looking into to the future.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 2, 2018

Protecting the identities of applications is one of three major challenges that must be addressed to ensure trust and facilitate the adoption of transformational technologies employing the use of connected devices (machines) in the rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT) and DevOps environments. Or follow me on Twitter @asenjojuan.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 23, 2018

On March 14, 2018, IBM Security announced the results of a new global study on organizational cybersecurity readiness and resiliency entitled “The 2018 Cyber Resilient Organization.” 23% of respondents say they do not currently have a CISO or security leader.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This archive is discreetly hosted on legitimate websites, cleverly disguised as firmware binaries for enigmatic devices labeled “m100” The Bitbucket repository was created on June 21, 2018, under the account of Julie Heilman, and it remains the sole repository associated with this profile. 8, 10.0.0.0/8, 8, 100.64.0.0/10,

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Global cyber insurance premiums are expected to grow from $4 billion in 2018 to $20 billion by 2025. Put simply, everything that is connected to the internet can be compromised. said Daniel Tobok, CEO of Cytelligence.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

In 2018, the merger of established web application security companies Acunetix and Netsparker led to the birth of Invicti Security. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. Kibana is a free GUI for organizations working with Elastic’s ELK stack for analyzing and visualizing data from nearly any source.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The GDPR Law goes into effect in 3 days on May 25, 2018. The key is to first identify whether or not you are collecting personal data of any users in the EU. Audit: Remove Any Non-Essential or Non-Compliant Data Collection. Evaluate every plugin and third party tool to learn more about the information they collect.

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Spinone

JULY 3, 2020

GDPR Overview and Definition GDPR is the law created to give people more control over the personal data they share on the internet. Before the GDPR was created, there had been multiple cases of personal data violations and misusages, like selling contacts to third parties without users knowing about that.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

In 2018, Wazawaka registered a slew of domains spoofing the real domain for the Hydra dark web market. An Internet search for Wazawaka’s ICQ number brings up a 2009 account for a Wazawaka on a now defunct discussion forum about Kopyovo-a , a town of roughly 4,400 souls in the Russian republic of Khakassia: MIKHAIL’S MIX.

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SecureList

AUGUST 13, 2024

While there are several reports on the internet about the Twelve group from various CTI (Cyber Threat Intelligence) vendors that attempt to describe the group’s activities, we have not seen any that detail the tools and techniques used in the attacks. In May 2024, we discovered a new APT targeting Russian government entities.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

It presents a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 ), which provide an overview of the latest trends across the threat landscape. To gain insights into the financial threat landscape, we analyzed data on malicious activities on the devices of Kaspersky security product users.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

Period-tracking app users scrambled to find the most secure app online , and one period-tracking app maker promised to encrypt user data so that, even if law enforcement made a request for their data, the data would be unintelligible. Those promises, one investigation found, were shaky.) million.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In a typical internet hoax manner, crypto scam sites offered visitors to get rich quick by paying a small fee. In reality, the scheme worked the way any other internet hoax would: the self-professed altruists went off the radar once they received the deposit.

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Elie

AUGUST 5, 2018

This post provides an overview of the impact of the Twitter 2018 accounts purge through the lens of its impact on 16k of Twitter’s most popular accounts. In terms of raw numbers, this represents a collective loss of over half a billion followers (546M). Dataset overview Here is a brief overview of the data collected.

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Elie

AUGUST 5, 2018

This post provides an overview of the impact of the Twitter 2018 accounts purge through the lens of its impact on 16k of Twitter’s most popular accounts. In terms of raw numbers, this represents a collective loss of over half a billion followers (546M). Dataset overview Here is a brief overview of the data collected.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Victims get infected via phishing emails containing a malicious document that exploits a vulnerability in the formula editor ( CVE-2018-0802 ) to download and execute malware code. All data collected this way is saved in a TMP alternate data stream and forwarded to the C2 server by the VBShower::Backdoor component.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Recently, NIST has been taking a closer look at the Internet of Things (IoT), inviting input on practical risks organizations face as they move into the age of connected devices. But its guidance, created with years of input from stakeholders, applies to the private sector and to enterprises of all sizes.

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