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Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets

Schneier on Security

These buckets contained software libraries that are still used. The TL;DR is that this time, we ended up discovering ~150 Amazon S3 buckets that had previously been used across commercial and open source software products, governments, and infrastructure deployment/update pipelines—and then abandoned.

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Internet Archive data breach impacted 31M users

Security Affairs

The Internet Archive disclosed a data breach, the security incident impacted more than 31 million users of its “The Wayback Machine.” As of September 5, 2024, the Internet Archive held more than 42.1 Internet Archive hacked. million print materials, 13 million videos, 1.2 54% were already in @haveibeenpwned.

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Hi, robot: Half of all internet traffic now automated

Malwarebytes

If you sometimes feel that the internet isn’t the same vibrant place it used to be, you’re not alone. Bots (software programs that interact with web sites) have been ubiquitous for years. Bad bots comprised 37% of internet traffic in 2024, up from 32% the year prior. Bad bots do all kinds of unpleasant things.

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U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails

Krebs on Security

The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. Internet was publishing more than a decade’s worth of its internal email — and that of thousands of Securence clients — in plain text out on the Internet and just a click away for anyone with a Web browser. Internet with their email.

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Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

Krebs on Security

Security experts say the Russia-based service provider Prospero OOO (the triple O is the Russian version of “LLC”) has long been a persistent source of malicious software, botnet controllers, and a torrent of phishing websites. federal agencies from using Kaspersky software, mandating its removal within 90 days.

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MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Krebs on Security

Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device.

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The Software-Defined Car

Schneier on Security

Developers are starting to talk about the software-defined car. The behavior of new cars is increasingly defined by software, too. But keep in mind that, of course, the more software there is in the car, the more risk is there for vulnerabilities, no question about this,” Anhalt said. They’re highly secure.

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