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SEC Sanctions Several Companies over Email Account Hacking

Hacker Combat

Hackers took advantage of the mishap to gain unauthorized access to email accounts and lots of customer’s data was exposed. SEC insisted Cetera was responsible for exposing the personal data of more than 4,300 clients and customers between 2017 November and 2020 June. A spokesperson representing Cetera did not respond to the ruling. .

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Twitter's Cyber Attack and Takeover: It Was Spear Phishing

SecureWorld News

Twitter released more details about its security incident that targeted 130 famous Twitter accounts. Since the attack occurred in early July, speculation about how hackers compromised Twitter's security have run rampant, especially on.Twitter. To run our business, we have teams around the world that help with account support.

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Sendgrid Under Siege from Hacked Accounts

Krebs on Security

Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks. “And I just am not seeing anything this egregious in terms of viruses and spams from the other email service providers.”

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Four ways to stay ahead of the AI fraud curve

SC Magazine

Session on deepfakes at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos, Switzerland. The new virtual world driven by the COVID-19 pandemic has given bad actors the perfect opportunity to access consumer accounts by leveraging AI and bots to commit fraud like never before. WorldEconomicForum CreativeCommons Credit: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

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Nation-State Actors Phishing Trump and Biden Campaigns

SecureWorld News

And according to Google, it's happening again in 2020. And according to Shane Huntley , Head of TAG, the team recently uncovered some vital security intel regarding the 2020 U.S. saw China APT group targeting Biden campaign staff & Iran APT targeting Trump campaign staff with phishing. security.". improving ?technology

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FEC: Campaigns Can Use Discounted Cybersecurity Services

Krebs on Security

The decision comes amid much jostling on Capitol Hill over election security at the state level, and fresh warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies about impending cyber attacks targeting candidates in the lead up to the 2020 election. Last year, the FEC granted a similar exemption to Microsoft Corp. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

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Google reveals that foreign hackers are already targeting Trump and Biden campaigns

Security Affairs

Google TAG revealed that China-linked cyberespionage group APT31 is targeting Biden campaign staff, while the Iran-linked APT35 group is targeting Trump campaign staff with spear-phishing attacks. — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) June 4, 2020. link] — Graham Brookie (@GrahamBrookie) June 4, 2020.