Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

Preamble: The great network visibility blackout of 2020. Then, fast-forward to March 2020, where practically every organization was hit with a prolonged and complete employee activity visibility blackout. Expanded data collection to provide further extended visibility and enhanced context . With release 7.3.2,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

million or €50 million penalty in March 2020 by the France data watchdog for failing to provide transparent information to users about its rules and regulations pertaining to data collection related to its products and services. Google was awarded $56.6

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Singapore, 09/18/2020 — Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, evidenced the transformation of the threat portfolio over the first half of 2020. The post Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

Preamble: The great network visibility blackout of 2020. Then, fast-forward to March 2020, where practically every organization was hit with a prolonged and complete employee activity visibility blackout. Expanded data collection to provide further extended visibility and enhanced context . With release 7.3.2,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2021

H2 2020 – Kaspersky observed an increase in ransomware attacks on industrial control system (ICS) systems in developed countries. T he percentage of ICS computers hit by a cyber attack in the second half of the year on a global scale was 33.4%, (+0.85% than H1 2020). Which are most secure countries in H2 2020?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Threat Report Portugal Q3 2020: Data related to Phishing and malware attacks based on the Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d. 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. Malware by Numbers.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 31, 2022

In 2020, there was an estimated 59 trillion gigabytes of data in the world. The post The Power of Data Analysis in Threat Intelligence – Part 1: Data Collection and Data Mining first appeared on Digital Shadows. Most of which was created in.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

The updated Grandoreiro Malware equipped with latenbot-C2 features in Q2 2020 now extended to Portuguese banks. During April and May 2020, a new Grandoreiro variant was identified. The Grandoreiro malware has been distributed via malscan campaigns around the globe during Q2 2020. 100:51224/$rdgate? 100:51224/$rdgate?ACTION=x

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Schneier on Security

JULY 28, 2021

But it did say how it de-anonymized aggregated data to correlate Grindr app usage with a device that appears to be Burrill’s phone. The publication zeroed in on addresses where Burrill was known to frequent and singled out a device identifier that appeared at those locations.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 11, 2022

In 2021, malware downloads originating from cloud apps increased to 66% of all malware downloads when compared to traditional websites, up from 46% at the beginning of 2020. These were among the findings of Netskope’s latest cloud security report, which is based on anonymized data collected.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The network of data brokers that political campaigns rely on to target voters with ads is enormous, as one Washington Post reporter found in 2020, with “3,000 data points on every voter.” Escaping this data collection regime has proven difficult for most people.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Network data collected by the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media as Idlib military crisis escalates. We obtained recordings from two leading ISPs [link] pic.twitter.com/XnodAi48Qc — NetBlocks.org (@netblocks) February 28, 2020. local time (8:30 p.m.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In February 2020, the U.S. Americans currently have no legal right to opt out of this data collection and trade. Justice Department indicted four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for perpetrating the 2017 Equifax hack.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 24, 2020

269 gigabytes of potentially sensitive data collected from more than 200 police departments across the country were leaked online last week. Included in the data set are emails, audio, video, scanned documents, bulletins, guide, and police and FBI reports.

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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. now has 687 records assembled from publicly disclosed incidents between November 2013 and August 2020.” “This repository (version 10.2)

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The code found in both apps allowed to gather device data, including model, MAC address, carrier information, and IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) number. The data collection code was found in the Baidu Push SDK, used to show real-time notifications inside both apps.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Data collected by the agency is used by the federal government to allocate over $675 billion in federal funds to tribal, local, and state governments every year. According to the DHS, threat actors will likely interfere with the upcoming 2020 US Presidential election, as well as to compromise the 2020 US Census.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2020

The campaign tracked ‘Operation North Star,’ was active between late March and May 2020. “Our analysis indicates that one of the purposes of the activity in 2020 was to install data gathering implants on victims’ machines. ” states the report published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The class action, filed in 2020 by law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, alleges that the IT giant deceived users, leading them to believe their online activities would not be tracked in incognito mode.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bugcrowd’s Inside the Mind of a Hacker report compiled from the data collected in between May 1st, 2020 to August 31st, 2021 states that security vulnerabilities have increased since the start of COVID-19 pandemic, as most companies opted for work from home operations.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2022

The top drivers of the continued growth of cybersecurity are: the growing need to protect the API supply chain, the inadequacy of existing identity management systems, and the unfulfilled promise of data-driven AI-powered cybersecurity systems. The SolarWinds attack made API supply chain security a front-page story in 2020.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A report published by Splunk that analyzed three years of data showed a marked increase in the number of cyberattacks that employ four specific types of techniques. Based on analysis of data collected from 2020 to 2022, the report found a steady increase in the number of cyberattacks using a command and scripting interpreter, such.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Here we had a situation where an attacker could easily control moving parts within a car from a remote location.

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Anton on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Data collection failures still plague many SOCs. Now, again, one can also blame this on people and processes (especially, those people in IT who just didn’t give us the data). Yes, DIY SOC tools fail as well. One sided visibility stack is definitely a tool challenge as well.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

The Threat Report Portugal: Q1 2021 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from January to March, Q1, of 2021. 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

JULY 22, 2021

The Threat Report Portugal: Q1 2021 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from April to June, Q2, of 2021. 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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

.” Avast subsidiary Jumpshot sold the collected information to over 100 third parties between 2014 and 2020. million and order to stop selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes. FTC will also fine Avast $16.5 We are committed to our mission of protecting and empowering people’s digital lives.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

From now on, the Mark Zuckerberg’s led company faced a lawsuit against its facial recognition related data collection early this year. FB made a step forward by offering a settlement of $650 million to a data advocacy group that filed a legal suit against the use of FacioMetrics technology acquired by FB in 2016.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2020, as the world grappled with a fast-spreading global pandemic, the FBI received more than 2,000 complaints each day, totaling 791,790 for the year. billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). The COVID-19 pandemic played a major role in cybercriminal activities in 2020.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The lawsuit, filed in 2020, alleged that the automakers' practice of collecting and storing this sensitive data without customers' knowledge or consent constituted a violation of the Washington Privacy Act (WPA).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Security experts from Check Point discovered a high-severity flaw ( CVE-2020-6007 ) in Philips Hue Smart Light Bulbs that can be exploited by hackers to gain entry into a targeted WiFi network. Smart lightbulbs are managed over the air via WiFi protocol or ZigBee, a low bandwidth radio protocol. ZigBee is an IEEE 802.15.4-based

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It was only in October 2020 that the truth finally came out, and the criminals published batches of the sensitive records on the dark web. The hackers initially demanded a ransom payment from Vastaamo of about 450,000 euros, before inviting patients to pay approximately 500 euros if they wanted their data taken down. ”

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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 March 2020, T-Mobile was the victim of a sophisticated cyber attack that targeted its email vendor, the incident exposed customer and financial data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

At the end of October 2020, the US-CERT published a report on Kimusky’s recent activities that provided information of their TTPs and infrastructure. On December 2020, KISA (Korean Internet & Security Agency) provided a detailed analysis about the phishing infrastructure and TTPs used by Kimsuky to target South Korea.

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Anton on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

I also do NOT believe that the decoupled SIEM is a broken SIEM that should not exist.

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