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New LightSpy spyware variant comes with enhanced data collection features targeting social media platforms

Security Affairs

Researchers found an updated LightSpy spyware with enhanced data collection features targeting social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. have found an updated version of the LightSpy spyware that supports an expanded set of data collection features to target social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

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NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

Krebs on Security

We’ll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked — a background check company founded by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida. ” On April 7, USDoD posted a sales thread on Breachforums for four terabytes of data — 2.9

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E-skimming campaign uses Unicode obfuscation to hide the Mongolian Skimmer

Security Affairs

. “ The Mongolian Skimmer uses common techniques: DOM monitoring for sensitive input changes, data exfiltration via encoded tracking pixels, DevTools detection to evade debugging, data collection on page unload, cross-browser compatibility, and anti-debugging measures to avoid code tampering.

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Election season raises fears for nearly a third of people who worry their vote could be leaked

Malwarebytes

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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Group-IB presented latest cybercrime and nation-state hacking trends in Asia

Security Affairs

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. Thirteen exchanges were hacked in 2017 and in the first three quarters of 2018, amounting to a total loss of $877 million. Attacks on Crypto. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Protonmail hacked …. a very strange scam attempt

Security Affairs

A hacker going online by the moniker AmFearLiathMor is claiming to have hacked the most popular end-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail. At the time it is not clear if the hacker belongs to a cyber crime gang, it claims to have stolen a “significant” amounts of data from the company. The ransom demand ( archive.is

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Ngo got his treasure trove of consumer data by hacking and social engineering his way into a string of major data brokers. By the time the Secret Service caught up with him in 2013, he’d made over $3 million selling fullz data to identity thieves and organized crime rings operating throughout the United States.