Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

In November 2019, researchers published vulnerabilities that allow 5G users to be tracked in real time, be sent fake emergency alerts, or be disconnected from the 5G network altogether. But even worse, for 5G, development, performance, cost, and time to market were all prioritized over security, which was treated as an afterthought.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In exchange for resolving all outstanding class action claims against it, Equifax in 2019 agreed to a settlement that includes up to $425 million to help people affected by the breach. Americans currently have no legal right to opt out of this data collection and trade.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Attorney for the Western District of Texas unsealed an indictment last week that named Mark Sokolvsky as the core developer for the Raccoon Infostealer business, which was marketed on several Russian-language cybercrime forums beginning in 2019. The Justice Department has set up a website — raccoon.ic3.gov

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In July, DHS’s Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) suspended all federal contracts with Perceptics , a contractor which sells license-plate scanners and other border control equipment, after data collected by the company was made available for download on the dark web.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The project was launched in September 2019 and as of August 2020, the experts collected 680 records of ransomware attacks that took place since November 2013. “In September 2019, we started a repository of Critical Infrastructures Ransomware Attacks (CIRWAs).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 12, 2022

All the data collected by Europol regarding citizens linked to no criminal activity will from now on be deleted after a retention period of just 6 months. In general, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation maintains enormous data sets containing information of individuals as per the governing body policing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

According to a study made by security firm Bugcrowd, ethical hackers have prevented over $27 billion worth of cyber crime during the spread of Corona virus 2019.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

You would like to think that security would then be tightened up, but in March 2019, Vastaamo CEO Ville Tapio knew that hackers had in the months since continued to access the chain of private psychotherapy clinics’ systems. ”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2020 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from April to Jun, Q2, of 2020. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2020

The name “Silent Night” Zbot is likely a reference to a weapon mentioned in the 2002 movie xXx, it was first spotted in November 2019 when a seller named “Axe” started offering it on the Russian underground forum forum.exploit[.]in. The malware is able to infect all operating systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We’ve been alerted that portions of the PHPBB user table from our forums showed up in a leaked data collection.” ” read a message published on the XKCS forum “The data includes usernames , email addresses, salted, hashed passwords, and in some cases an IP address from the time of registration,”.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Customer proprietary network information (CPNI) is the data collected by telecommunications companies about a consumer’s telephone calls. In November 2019, the US branch of the telecommunications giant disclosed a security breach that impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2020

The Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs) of the Operation North Star operations are very similar to those observed in 2017 and 2019 campaigns that targeted key military and defense technologies. “Our analysis indicates that one of the purposes of the activity in 2020 was to install data gathering implants on victims’ machines.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

The Threat Report Portugal: Q1 2020 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from January to March, Q1, of 2020. For more details about this threat, please access the Threat Report: Emotet Triple Chain Analysis 2019 – Portugal. The campaigns were classified as either phishing or malware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 9, 2023

The departure of senior management staff shortly after a change in ownership naturally raises questions about Twitter’s ability to fulfill its legal obligations, particularly with regard to user privacy and data security.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2024

According to COPPA, website operators are forbidden from collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children under 13 without parental consent and mandates deletion of such data upon parental request. In 2019, the government sued TikTok’s predecessor, Musical.ly, for COPPA violations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2021

FireEye published its M-Trend 2021 report based on the data collected during the investigation, 650 new threat groups were tracked in 2020. FireEye published its annual report, titled M-Trend 2021, which is based on the data collected during the investigation on security incidents it managed.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The scripts developed by the cyber criminal were used to parse log data collected from botnet and searched for personally identifiable information (PII) and account credentials. Brovko was involved in the illegal practice between 2007 and 2019. In some cases, the man manually chacked the stolen information.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In addition to a meticulous evaluation of individual work performance, the data collected in this way were used, among other things, to obtain a profile of the employees for measures and decisions in the employment relationship. And that led to something like a snowball rolling downhill.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2021

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has published the Industrial Control System Threat Landscape report for H2 2020 which is based on statistical data collected by the distributed antivirus Kaspersky Security Network (KSN). . The same percentage was 7% in 2019, and H1 2020 compared to H2 2019. than in 2019).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

Data collected in the course of the investigation also reveals some fascinating details that may help explain why these pump skimmers are so lucrative and ubiquitous. The researchers will present their work on Bluetana later today at the USENIX Security 2019 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Under Christmas tree you can find great gifts such as significant improvements of user interface (panel), modal windows on loading and expansion of data collection objects. Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent. CVE-2019-6342 flaw allows hackers to fully compromise Drupal 8.7.4 Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused. Paper Copy.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. rar archive files.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2020. They are followed by banking Trojans , whose share in the total amount of malicious attachments showed growth for the first time in a while.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Threat Report Portugal: Q4 2020 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from October to December, Q4, of 2020. This makes it a reliable and trustworthy and continuously updated source, focused on the threats targeting Portuguese citizens. The submissions were classified as either phishing or malware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2019

Data collected by SafeGuard confirm the intensification of the presence of Russian bots on Twitter. In January 2019, the social media platform removed 418 accounts associated with Russian entities. Midterm election. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Experts from threat intelligence firm KELA , speculate the threat actor could have obtained the credentials buying “Azor logs,” which are lots of data stolen from computers infected with the AzorUlt info-stealer trojan.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 14, 2019

With all the talk of escalating cyber warfare , the spread of counterfeit smartphones and new forms of self-replicating malware , I came away from Black Hat USA 2019 (my 15 th ) marveling, once more, at the panache of modern cyber criminals. More data had to be collected, stored and analyzed, ideally by experienced analysts.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

EDR gains visibility on what’s happening on an organization’s endpoints by capturing activity data. Bishop Fox’s report assures that in terms of data collection, they found Illumio’s telemetry to be especially useful to cover some EDR blind spots, where the preconfigured EDR alerts did not properly detect attacker activities. “In

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios, such as for home automation, medical device data collection, and other low-power low-bandwidth needs, designed for small scale projects which need wireless connection.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I had the chance to meet with him again at Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas. 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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Research conducted by ARD’s Panorama and STRG_F revealed that data collected during surveillance is processed using statistical methods, effectively breaking Tor’s anonymity. German law enforcement agencies have been surveilling Tor network by operating their own servers for months. an administrator of the platform.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Rapid7 combines threat intelligence , security research, data collection, and analytics in its comprehensive Insight platform, but how does its detection and response solution – InsightIDR – compare to other cybersecurity solutions? Rapid7: Company Background. Rapid7’s market capitalization in 2021 is over $6.75

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2023

SystemBC was discovered by experts at Proofpoint in Augut 2019, it is being distributed via exploit kits like Fallout and RIG. ” reads the report published by Data collected related to multiple incidents analyzed by Kaspersky suggest the attack was conducted by the Russian-speaking RaaS cybercrime Pistachio Tempest or FIN12.

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Malware Data collection Healthcare Cybercrime 98

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

su between 2016 and 2019. All VPN providers claim to prioritize the privacy of their users, but many then go on to collect and store all manner of personal and financial data from those customers. Others are fairly opaque about their data collection and retention policies.

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