SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

The Telegram black market: what’s on offer After reviewing phishers’ Telegram channels that we detected, we broke down the services they promoted into paid and free. As mentioned above, the creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data collected with tools they made.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Apparently, before a child reaches the age of 13, advertisers will have gathered more 72 million data points on them. I knew I'd seen a metric about this sometime recently, so I went looking for "7,000", which perfectly illustrates how unaware we are of the extent of data collection on all of us.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 31, 2023

Meta has run into yet another bout of court related issues—two subsidiaries have been ordered to pay $14 million regarding undisclosed data collection. The Australian case, which has rumbled on for the best part of two and a half years, has focused on claims related to a now discontinued Virtual Private Network (VPN).

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 26, 2022

So, social media sites use data sharing alongside their algorithms to keep your feed enticing to you, the consumer. According to Rob Sanders , digital marketing expert, social media platforms supply marketers with a vast amount of data to know what content is working and what isn’t. Influencing Emotions.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

These insecurities are a result of market forces that prioritize costs over security and of governments, including the United States, that want to preserve the option of surveillance in 5G networks. The same happened with 4G; operators even ignored security features defined as mandatory in the standard because implementing them was expensive.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2025

In July 2024, the FTC requested information from eight companies offering surveillance pricing products and services that incorporate data about consumers characteristics and behavior. Understand how the company will be using your data Block web tracking wherever you can.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 19, 2022

Many of the sites seemingly do not intend to conduct the data-logging but incorporate third-party marketing and analytics services that cause the behavior. They found that 1,844 websites gathered an EU user’s email address without their consent, and a staggering 2,950 logged a US user’s email in some form.

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Passwords Marketing Data collection 353

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

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Group-IB: The online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion, while the number of phishing attacks has surpassed 1,200 daily. According to Group-IB, the online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has increased by 23% in a year and totaled more than $1.5 billion in 2017, compared to $1.2 billion in 2016.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Data collections released after ransomware attacks. The rise in Initial Access Brokers (IAB) markets give criminal groups easy access to purchase stolen credentials for a small fee. Databases with critical IP and/or PII. Chatter about the best methods to attack your business.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We provide recommendations for app market proprietors to address the issues discovered. We also find instances of developers releasing different app versions to different countries, some with weaker security settings or privacy disclosures that expose users to higher security and privacy risks.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Human psychology and biases lead to exaggerated fears that politicians/marketers can exploit, resulting in wasteful and theatrical “security theater.” Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties. Focus only on proportional responses.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2022

Many of the startups attempting to tackle this vexing problem are offering the promise of data science and machine learning to automate the process of managing identities, although none of them even have the data collected to prove the accuracy and robustness of their proposed solutions.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

Here’s more on the various types and benefits of MSS, as well as the state of the MSS(P) market in 2022! The current unification in the cybersecurity market is driving a massive movement towards fewer vendors, which at the same time means more polarization of either using MSS/MSSP or doing the security work internally. MSSPs in 2022.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 20, 2021

While the CDC recently instructed that vaccinators not use for commercial marketing purposes data collected as part of the COVID-19 vaccine process, there is little doubt that compliance with such instructions will be far from perfect both now and in the future.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While many users allow location tracking on their mobile apps to enable tailored content such as weather or nearby restaurants, they are often unaware that their travel history and daily routines are closely monitored and sold for use in the $21 billion advertising market. . “[T]he Anonymization is not failsafe.

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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. ” BLACK MARKET VALUE. The black market value, impact to consumers and banks, and liability associated with different types of card fraud.

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SecureBlitz

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In today's interconnected digital landscape, businesses face numerous challenges regarding data collection, market research, and maintaining a secure online presence. This post will show you the best proxy services for legitimate business purposes.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

Once we are identified, the data about who we are and what we are doing can be correlated with other data collected at other times. This might be movement data, which can be used to "follow" us as we move throughout our day. It might be data about our income, ethnicity, lifestyle, profession and interests.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

When you share too much information online, you become a target of highly effective marketing campaigns. Tracking is only harmless when there is no real data collected and stored; that’s impossible, isn’t it? While the practice is harmless from the outside, it is actually a series of serious privacy risks that must be mitigated.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

But new research shows the proxy service has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own. Others are fairly opaque about their data collection and retention policies. in the British Virgin Islands.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 25, 2021

Each individual has their own “profile” that helps marketing companies target them with tailored ads and content. It’s not just the big tech giants who gather user data. Online tracking starts whenever you connect to the internet, and your ISP is one of the first entities to collect web traffic once engaged in various activities.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

To helps organizations compare their needs against the options in the market, CSO prepared a list with the top seven vendors in the market. Marketers want to collect data about customers and their devices. Marketers want to collect data about customers and their devices.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2025

How cars became the worst product category for privacy Session Covers the extensive data collection (and subsequent sharing with car manufacturers and their affiliates) enabled by modern vehicles; they can collect way beyond location data. They regularly use people's personal information to set tailored prices.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

This was a one-time data collection, done for security purposes (to analyze whether a user had recently encountered adware or other threats, and thus to improve the product & service).” The experts have observed that all these apps have embedded tracking codes provided by advertising and marketing firms.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2025

In January, a location data broker named Gravy Analytics was hacked, with the alleged cybercriminal behind the attack posting an enormous amount of data online as proof. “I was surprised looking at all of those requests. ” Tune in today to listen to the full conversation.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 25, 2022

today launched a cloud-based platform through which it will unify risk and threat assessments using data collected from both its own and third-party security offerings. Trend Micro Inc.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2024

At Malwarebytes, we reported how a team of researchers at Mozilla who reviewed the privacy and data collection policies of various product categories for several years now, named “Privacy Not Included,” found cars to be the worst product category they ever reviewed for privacy.

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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 Telecom Italia aka TIM was also hit by a GDPR fine of $31.5 million or €27.8

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The SDK was designed to display ads, experts noticed that once users of the social networks were logged into either service using one of these applications, the SDK silently accessed their profiles to collect information. MobiBurn only facilitates the process by introducing mobile application developers to the data monetisation companies.

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Threatpost

MARCH 20, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is creating a lucrative market for facial recognition manufacturers. But privacy issues need to be top of mind, tech experts warn.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Hermann’s deep expertise in identity theft protection, credit and financial education and leveraging data to implement scalable business solutions will immediately benefit Entryway as the organization works to create efficiencies through data collection to serve a greater number of at-risk individuals and families across all of its program markets.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And, as such, the disclosure of personal data was in breach of the Privacy Ordinance. Users had to accept the privacy statement in its entirety to use the app, and they were not specifically asked if they would consent to disclosure to third parties for marketing purposes. Shared data.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

In reality, this level of data collection is not as uncommon as is being suggested. The app collects how much data? You may even experience digital billboard Geofence marketing. However, the fallout from this incident may hopefully serve as a warning to others with an app soon to launch. The investigation findings.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The conclusions seemed to upset the FTC, but we weren’t even mildly surprised: “The amount of data collected by large tech companies is simply staggering. They track what we do on and off their platforms, often combining their own information with enormous data sets purchased through the largely unregulated consumer data market.”

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