Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2023 report states that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 The 2023 Internet Crime Report published the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reveals that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 billion in 2023. billion in 2023. ” concludes the report.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 2, 2022

ICS vulnerability disclosures have grown by 110% since 2018, which Claroty said suggests more types of operational technologies are coming online and presenting soft targets. The post Get ready for security in the age of the Extended Internet of Things, says Claroty appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

As per usual, the bulk of the fixes from Microsoft tackle security weaknesses in the company’s Web browsers, Internet Explorer and Edge. The first, CVE-2018-8457 , is a critical memory corruption issue that could be exploited through a malicious Web site or Office file. Fortunately, disabling Flash in Chrome is simple enough.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. Don’t make it easy for criminals.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Censys researchers warn of more than 4,000 vulnerable Pulse Connect Secure hosts exposed to the Internet. Now Censys researchers discovered that 4,460 Pulse Connect Secure hosts out of 30,266 installs, which are exposed to the Internet, lack of security patches. ” reads the post published by Censys. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Last week, the Russian Internet giant Yandex has been targeting by the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet, the Russian Internet designed to be independent of the world wide web and ensure the resilience of the country to an internet shutdown. If somebody got your password in 2018, just an upgrade will not help.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2018

According to security firm Qualys , all but two of the “critical” fixes in this round of updates apply to vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s browsers — Internet Explorer and Edge.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The so-called Fancy Bear group, or APT28, began its operations in late 2017 --­ according to Trend Micro and Threat Connect , two private cybersecurity firms­ -- eventually publishing documents in 2018 outlining the political tensions between IOC officials and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officials who are policing Olympic athletes.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Russia’s internet watchdog, ‘Roskomnadzor’, has announced the ban of other VPN products, 15 VPN services are now illegal in Russia. Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens the control over the Internet and blocked access to six more VPN services. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 31, 2017

The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your 2018 editorial calendar. 29: World Internet Day — #WorldInternetDay. The real-time, in-the-moment nature of cause awareness and giving days can inspire donors to give provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote the days effectively.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2018

According to security firm Ivanti , the first of the two zero-day flaws ( CVE-2018-8373 ) is a critical flaw in Internet Explorer that attackers could use to foist malware on IE users who browse to hacked or booby-trapped sites. One nifty little bug fixed in this patch batch is CVE-2018-8345. Microsoft’s analysis is here.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Iran comes under cyber-attack again, a massive offensive brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet. Iran infrastructures are under attack, a massive cyberattack brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet, according to the experts the national connectivity fell to 75%.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It was a great look back at the beginnings of the WordPress and a look into the future of the open source software that powers over 30% of the internet. Each event is unique, and WordCamp Europe 2018 was no different. Jenny Beaumont (@jennybeaumont) June 15, 2018. John Maeda (@johnmaeda) June 16, 2018. In Summary.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Researchers from Kaspersky have published a new report on the attacks on ICS systems observed by its products in the first half of 2018. Kaspersky Lab experts have published a new report titled “Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems” report for H1 2018, that includes interesting data related to attacks against the ICS systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

SiteLock (@SiteLock) August 12, 2018. Guillaume Hamel (@guihamel) August 12, 2018. Longtime WordCamp speaker and president of the Canadian Internet Marketing Association Brian Rotsztein dropped a whole lot of new insights into the current state of SEO this weekend. wcmtl pic.twitter.com/NooWoTcKlg.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2019

Threat actors are exploiting a Jenkins vulnerability (CVE-2018-1000861) disclosed in 2018 to deliver a cryptocurrency miner using the Kerberods dropper. According to SANS handler Renato Marinho, a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2018-1000861 was released in early March. ” reads the analysis published by Marinho. .

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Cryptojacking is officially the scourge of the internet. Move over, ransomware.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Even more startling, as much as 61 percent of all internet traffic is automated traffic from bots, meaning these attacks do not discriminate based on the size or popularity of a website. The SiteLock Website Security Insider Q2 2018 goes over these and other tips for protecting your website from attackers. SiteLock 24/7/365 U.S.-based

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2018

In a move to blanket the Internet with encrypted website traffic, Google is moving forward with its insistence that straggling website publishers adopt HTTPS Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). W3Techs’ June 2018 survey shows that 35 percent of the top 10 million websites have adopted it. Related: How PKI can secure IoT.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Back in 2018, we learned that covert system of websites that the CIA used for communications was compromised by —at least—China and Iran, and that the blunder caused a bunch of arrests, imprisonments, and executions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Russia successfully disconnected from the internet. Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet. One of them is checking the integrity and security of the Internet as a result of external negative influences.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

First detailed in September 2018, the toolkit was observed delivering malware families ranging from ransomware to backdoors, but also fingerprinting the browser profile to identify targets of interest. Security researcher Kafeine identified that Fallout is now the second exploit kit to add CVE-2018-15982.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

The North Korea-linked Dark Hotel APT group is leveraging the recently patched CVE-2018-8373 vulnerability in the VBScript engine in attacks in the wild. The vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11, it was first disclosed last month by Trend Micro and affected all supported versions of Windows.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

There’s no stopping the Internet of Things now. 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 Related: The promise, pitfalls of IoT Companies have commenced the dispersal of IoT systems far and wide.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 24, 2019

billion to Internet-enabled theft, fraud and exploitation in 2018, with business e-mail compromise scams resulting in the highest of these financial losses, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). in Losses in 2018 appeared first on The Security Ledger. Organizations lost $2.7

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

In the not too distant future, each one of us will need to give pause, on a daily basis, to duly consider how we purchase and use Internet of Things devices and services. more than the $646 billion spent in 2018. Only when we demand it, will the Internet of Things achieve a level of trust that makes it stable. This is coming.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

” Between 2018 and 2019 the researchers assessed 28 telecom operators in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America and verifies the presence of the vulnerabilities in the GTP protocol. phone number) of a real subscriber and impersonate him to access the Internet. Faults in the GTP protocol directly impact 5G networks.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. 2018 , when the FBI joined with law enforcement partners overseas to seize 15 different booter service domains. Charles, Ill.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2022

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. Anyone with the means and intent can buy and use TheTruthSpy—all they need to do is download and install it onto target phones. Not its first rodeo.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017. “As we see, in Q2 2018 the leader by number of unique IP addresses from which Telnet password attacks originated was Brazil (23%). ” reads the report.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

I also shared how security education makes the internet a safer place and has the potential to increase your monthly income as a freelancer or agency. JoomlaDay Florida 2018 was focused on learning more about what the platform can do and also communicating the benefits of contributing to the project. Learning Joomla!

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

North Korea-linked group APT37 exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack. “Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to first prepare the target so that it uses Edge in Internet Explorer Mode.”

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The two issues are a Windows spoofing bug and a remote code execution flaw in Internet Explorer. According to the security expert Tal Be’ery , the vulnerability, dubbed GlueBall, has been known since August 2018, because a malware sample exploiting it was uploaded to VirusTotal. MSI) files signed by any software developer. .

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Today’s columnist, Brian Johnson of Armorblox, offers five takeaways from the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in March released its 2020 Internet Crime Report with updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and COVID-19 scams.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 2, 2024

It banned default passwords in 2018, the law taking effect in 2020. The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) introduces new minimum-security standards for manufacturers, and demands that these companies are open with consumers about how long their products will receive security updates for.

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