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| 07.09.2024 | The Cybersecurity Landscape: A Tidal Wave of Data Breaches and Legislative Shifts | In the digital age, data is the new gold. But as we’ve seen in recent months, it’s a goldmine that’s increasingly vulnerable to theft. The cybersecurity landscape is shifting, with alarming data breaches and legislative responses emerging a... |
| 05.09.2024 | Самые горячие новости инфобеза за август 2024 года | Всем привет! Подводим итоги месяца нашим традиционным дайджестом самых интересных новостей. Август принёс страсти по Цукербринам: Дуров, Маск и Цукерберг дружно попали в громкие заголовки. В России же готовят проект о сборах с компаний за и... |
| 28.08.2024 | Unpatchable 0-day in surveillance cam is being exploited to install Mirai | Enlarge
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Malicious hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in a widely used security camera to spread Mirai, a family of malware that wrangles infected Internet of Things devices into large networks fo... |
| 13.08.2024 | The Rise and Fall of Mirai: A Teenager's Digital Revolution | In the world of cybersecurity, few stories are as captivating as that of the Mirai botnet. This tale begins with three teenagers, armed with little more than ambition and a computer. Their journey transformed the landscape of cybercrime, ig... |
| 12.08.2024 | Ботнет Mirai: как три тинейджера создали ботнет, способный отключить Интернет | Студенты-первокурсники колледжа вполне обоснованно могут быть раздражены тем, что им не удаётся выбрать популярные факультативные дисциплины. Но обычно они лишь ворчат. Парас Джа стал исключением. Разгневанный тем, что старшекурсникам отдаё... |
| 12.08.2024 | Norton Secure VPN vs NordVPN (2024): Which VPN Is the Best? | Norton Secure VPN and NordVPN are mid-priced virtual private network services that hide your IP address and internet browsing activity from outside observers. Both products target individuals, families and small businesses with 10 users or ... |
| 12.08.2024 | Almost 2.7 Billion Data Records From National Public Data Leaked in Hacking Forum | By Joseph Henry
Published Aug 12, 2024 8:24AM EDT
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In the latest data breach, nearly 2.7 billion records containing personal information ... |
| 08.08.2024 | It’s not worth paying to be removed from people-finder sites, study says | Enlarge / For a true representation of the people-search industry, a couple of these folks should have lanyards that connect them by the pockets.
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If you've searched your name online in the last few years, you... |
| 05.08.2024 | Самые горячие новости инфобеза за июль 2024 года | Всем привет! Публикуем наш традиционный дайджест ключевых ИБ-новостей прошлого месяца. Главным событием июля, несомненно, стал инцидент с CrowdStrike, приведший к одному из крупнейших падений систем по всему миру в истории.
Прошлый месяц пр... |
| 02.08.2024 | Cloudflare: The Double-Edged Sword of Internet Freedom | Cloudflare stands at a crossroads. On one side, it champions free speech and internet neutrality. On the other, it faces accusations of enabling malicious activities. This dichotomy has sparked heated debates, raising questions about the re... |
| 31.07.2024 | Google Workspace Security Breach: A Wake-Up Call for Cyber Vigilance | In the digital age, security is paramount. Yet, even giants like Google can stumble. Recently, a vulnerability in Google Workspace's security system left thousands of accounts exposed. This incident serves as a stark reminder of the ever-pr... |
| 31.07.2024 | Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites | Enlarge
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A familiar debate is once again surrounding Cloudflare, the content delivery network that provides a free service that protects websites from being taken down in denial-of-service attacks by masking t... |
| 30.07.2024 | Уязвимость в системе безопасности Google Workspace сделала уязвимыми тысячи аккаунтов | Google столкнулась с серьёзной проблемой безопасности, связанной с учётными записями Workspace. Она позволяет обойти систему проверки электронной почты, которая необходима для создания аккаунта Workspace.
Сервис позволяет компаниям создават... |
| 30.07.2024 | Google Workspace Authentication Vulnerability Allowed Thousands of Accounts to be Exposed | Thousands of accounts have been exposed after hackers used existing emails to create Google Workspace accounts and bypassed the verification process.
According to Google, a “specially constructed request” could open a Workspace account with... |
| 30.07.2024 | Google Workspace Authentication Vulnerability Allowed Thousands of Emails to be Compromised | Thousands of email addresses have been compromised after hackers used them to create Google Workspace accounts and bypassed the verification process.
According to Google, a “specially constructed request” could open a Workspace account with... |
| 13.06.2024 | Conti-linked Suspect Arrested in Ukraine to Face Up to 15 Years in Prison if Found Guilty | By Joseph Henry
Published Jun 13, 2024 9:49AM EDT
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Ukrainian authorities have apprehended a 28-year-old man from the Kharkiv region, susp... |
| 09.06.2024 | WiFi-маршрутизаторы — это трекеры для массовой слежки | Как известно, Android и iOS активно используют для позиционирования своих смартфонов информацию об окружающих точках доступа Wi-Fi. Периодически смартфон сканирует окружающее пространство на предмет окружающих BSSID (уникальные идентификато... |
| 07.06.2024 | Самые горячие новости инфобеза за май 2024 года | Всем привет! Подводим итоги мая дайджестом самых горячих ИБ-новостей. Последний весенний месяц выдался богатым на всевозможные интересные события. Так, СДЭК стал жертвой масштабной рансомварь-атаки. Microsoft представила фичу Recall, подвер... |
| 06.06.2024 | Nokia unveils advanced DDoS countermeasures for improved protection against botnet and application-level DDoS attacks | Press Release
Nokia unveils advanced DDoS countermeasures for improved protection against botnet and application-level DDoS attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become more frequent, sophisticated, and potent over last ... |
| 28.05.2024 | US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs | Enlarge
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The US Treasury Department has sanctioned three Chinese nationals for their involvement in a VPN-powered botnet with more than 19 million residential IP addresses they rented out to cybercriminals to ... |
| 16.05.2024 | Исследователь по ИБ Брайан Кребс раскрыл способы, как Минюст США пытался деанонимизировать админа LockBit | 13 мая 2024 года исследователь по ИБ Брайан Кребс попытался раскрыть способы, с помощью которых Минюст США и другие ведомства пытались деанонимизировать администратора программы-вымогателя LockBit в лице Дмитрия Хорошева из Воронежа.
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| 22.04.2024 | US government says security flaw in Chirp Systems’ app lets anyone remotely control smart home locks | A vulnerability in a smart access control system used in thousands of U.S. rental homes allows anyone to remotely control any lock in an affected home. But Chirp Systems, the company that makes the system, has ignored requests to fix the fl... |
| 22.04.2024 | US Government Warns of Security Flaw in Chirp Systems' App, Risking Smart Home Locks Control | Inno Flores, Tech Times 22 April 2024, 10:04 pm
CISA has flagged a security problem with Chirp Systems' app, which could make smart homes less secure. This issue affects a system used in many rental properties, letting anyone control the lo... |
| 28.03.2024 | MFA Bombing: Attackers Abuse Apple ID Password Reset System—How to Protect Yourself From This? | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 28 March 2024, 12:03 pm
Recently, numerous Apple customers have fallen victim to a series of phishing attacks exploiting a flaw in iPhone's password reset feature.
It's important to discuss the details of these atta... |
| 28.03.2024 | There's a new scam targeting iPhone owners with a barrage of notifications | Tech There's a new scam targeting iPhone owners with a barrage of notifications
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2024-03-28T17:23:00Z
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| 28.03.2024 | Mozilla Drops New Privacy Partner After CEO Found Tethered To Data Brokers | Last month we noted how Mozilla had launched a new privacy protection tool dubbed Mozilla Monitor Plus. According to Mozilla, the new service scours the web for your personal information at over 190 sites where brokers sell information they... |
| 27.03.2024 | В KrebsOnSecurity предупредили пользователей iPhone о продвинутой фишинговой атаке с сотнями запросов на сброс Apple ID | Специалисты по ИБ из KrebsOnSecurity предупредили пользователей iPhone (а также Apple Watch и Mac) о продвинутой фишинговой атаке, в рамках которой смартфоны или гаджеты получают сотни запросов на сброс пароля Apple ID, а для избежания поте... |
| 27.03.2024 | “MFA Fatigue” attack targets iPhone owners with endless password reset prompts | Enlarge / They look like normal notifications, but opening an iPhone with one or more of these stacked up, you won't be able to do much of anything until you tap "Allow" or "Don't Allow." And they're right next to each o... |
| 27.03.2024 | Security alert: Apple users targeted by this threat right now | Several Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) users are being targeted in a new phishing scam that bombards them with password reset prompts, making it difficult to use their devices.
The scam exploits a weakness in Apple’s MFA (multi-factor authentication... |
| 26.03.2024 | Thousands of phones and routers swept into proxy service, unbeknownst to users | Enlarge
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Crooks are working overtime to anonymize their illicit online activities using thousands of devices of unsuspecting users, as evidenced by two unrelated reports published Tuesday.
The first, from secu... |
| 25.03.2024 | Mozilla’s privacy service drops a provider with ties to people-search sites | Enlarge
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Mozilla's Monitor Plus, a service launched by the privacy-minded tech firm in February, notes on its pitch page that there is "a $240 billion industry of data brokers selling your private information f... |
| 22.03.2024 | Mozilla Ends Onerep Partnership Due to CEO's Data Broker Connections | Inno Flores, Tech Times 22 March 2024, 08:03 pm
Mozilla recently severed ties with its privacy partner, Onerep, citing concerns over the CEO's connections to data brokers. This decision marks the end of the collaboration, which provided ass... |
| 07.03.2024 | Answering 7 Key Questions About Change Healthcare’s Cyberattack | It’s been more than two weeks since Change Healthcare discovered it was hit by a cyberattack.
The aftermath remains messy — patients across the country continue to struggle to obtain their prescriptions, as many of the systems that provider... |
| 28.02.2024 | Hackers threaten to release Trump documents from Georgia case if they don't get a ransom by Thursday | Law Hackers threaten to release Trump documents from Georgia case if they don't get a ransom by Thursday
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2024-02-28T18:09:44Z
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| 20.02.2024 | After years of losing, it’s finally feds’ turn to troll ransomware group | Enlarge
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After years of being outmaneuvered by snarky ransomware criminals who tease and brag about each new victim they claim, international authorities finally got their chance to turn the tables, and they a... |
| 19.02.2024 | Регистратор доменных имён Freenom прекращает свою работу | В пресс-релизе от 12 февраля 2024 года компания Freenom — регистратор доменных имён, управлявшая доменами в зонах .tk, .cf, .gq, (в прошлом также .ga и .ml) — объявила об урегулировании иска с Meta* и своём прекращении работы.
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| 19.02.2024 | Исследователь: через портал поддержки для клиентов Juniper доступны данные об устройствах и контрактах | Журналист Брайан Кребс сообщил со ссылкой на 17-летнего исследователя, что через портал поддержки для клиентов Juniper доступна информация об устройствах и контрактах. Вероятно, что утечка данных происходила с сентября 2023 года.
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| 07.02.2024 | Самые горячие новости инфобеза за январь 2024 года | Всем привет! Январь выдался богатым на интересные инфобез-новости. Так, появилась информация о возвращении ZLoader — стоявшие за малварью злоумышленники пустили в ход новую версию. Исследователи связали свежую рансомварь 3AM с выходцами из ... |
| 17.01.2024 | Плохой-хороший ИИ: как алгоритмы помогают хакерам и специалистам по ИБ | Компании активно используют ИИ-системы и чат-ботов в рабочих процессах, например, для создания регулярных выражений, паттернов проектирования и уточнения запросов. Роль таких решений продолжает расти и в сфере кибербезопасности — а также ки... |
| 10.01.2024 | Microsoft Patch Tuesday Addresses 49 Flaws, 12 RCE Bugs: Here's What's Interesting | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 10 January 2024, 12:01 pm |
| 22.12.2023 | These are the cybersecurity stories we were jealous of in 2023 | Back in 2018, my former colleague at VICE Motherboard Joseph Cox and I started publishing a list of the best cybersecurity stories that were published elsewhere. It wasn’t just a way to tip our hats at our friendly competitors; by pointing ... |
| 18.12.2023 | How to protect unmanaged devices in today’s zero-trust world | Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here.
All it takes is a single hijacked browser session or unprotected third-party device on a network to shut a... |
| 15.12.2023 | People-Centric Security, или Человекоцентричная безопасность — забытая концепция или ключ к защите современных компаний?... | В последние два года мы видим много новостей про утечки данных, в том числе из популярных сервисов: СДЭК, Яндекс.Еда, Delivery Club, Литрес и других.
В результате таких утечек стали доступны более 660 миллионов записей персональных данных в... |
| 12.12.2023 | Proofpoint Exposes Sophisticated Social Engineering Attack on Recruiters That Infects Their Computers With Malware | A new report from U.S.-based cybersecurity company Proofpoint exposes a new attack campaign operated by a financially-oriented threat actor dubbed TA4557 with high financial data theft risks and possibly more risks such as intellectual prop... |
| 09.12.2023 | Why Your CRM May Cause Your Next Data Breach | In the fast-paced world of sales today, every customer interaction holds significant value. Reps grab phone numbers for calls and texts, get home addresses for sending out swag, and even note health updates (like a meeting having to be resc... |
| 03.11.2023 | Unraveling cybercrime network’s underground operations | An underground cybercrime network, SWAT USA Drop Service, situated in Russia, currently has over 1,200 American employees, many of whom are inadvertently involved in the reshipping of luxury consumer products bought with stolen credit cards... |
| 24.10.2023 | Okta’s latest hack fallout hits Cloudflare, 1Password | Network and security giant Cloudflare and password manager maker 1Password said hackers briefly targeted their systems following a recent breach of Okta’s support unit.
Both Cloudflare and 1Password said their recent intrusions were linked ... |
| 20.10.2023 | Okta says hackers stole customer access tokens from support unit | Identity and access giant Okta said a hacker broke into its customer support ticket system and stole sensitive files that can be used to break into the networks of Okta’s customers.
Okta chief security officer David Bradbury said in a blog ... |
| 20.10.2023 | Мошенники начали использовать новый тип атак с поддельным обновлением браузера | Исследователь KrebsOnSecurity Брайан Кребс рассказал о новом типе мошенничества с использованием старого метода, который заключается в том, чтобы заставить пользователей перейти на вредоносные сайты якобы для обновления браузера.
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| 28.09.2023 | От упрощённых методов разработки до операций по удалению: как меняются ботнеты и методы борьбы с ними | Ранее мы уже рассказывали о том, как эволюционирует поведение злоумышленников, и что им пытаются противопоставить специалисты по информационной безопасности. За прошедшие полгода ситуация с DDoS-угрозами и ботнетами продолжает развитие: угр... |
| 24.09.2023 | LastPass усложнила требования к мастер-паролям | Служба LastPass потребовала от некоторых пользователей выбирать более длинные мастер-пароли. Такое требование объяснили тем, что пароли должны соответствовать последним улучшениям безопасности. Эксперты считают, что удлинение мастер-паролей... |
| 29.08.2023 | Mom’s Meals says data breach affects 1.2 million customers | Mom’s Meals, a meal delivery service for people with chronic health conditions, has confirmed a data breach affecting more than 1.2 million individuals.
In a data breach notice filed this week with Maine’s attorney general, Mom’s Meals pare... |
| 11.08.2023 | How fame-seeking teenagers hacked some of the world’s biggest targets | Enlarge
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A ragtag bunch of amateur hackers, many of them teenagers with little technical training, have been so adept at breaching large targets, including Microsoft, Okta, Nvidia, and Globant, that the f... |
| 27.07.2023 | US, Australia cyber agencies warn IDOR security flaws can be exploited ‘at scale’ | U.S. and Australian government cybersecurity agencies are warning that common and easily exploitable security vulnerabilities in websites and web apps can be abused to carry out large-scale data breaches.
In a joint advisory published Thurs... |
| 17.07.2023 | Security Week 2329: июльский набор патчей Microsoft и 5 уязвимостей zero-day | Во вторник 11 июля компания Microsoft выпустила очередной ежемесячный набор патчей для своих продуктов. Апдейт получился крупный: всего закрыли 132 уязвимости, из них 9 критических. 4 проблемы активно эксплуатировались на момент выпуска пат... |
| 26.06.2023 | Странная история подростков, создавших ботнет Mirai | Студенты-первокурсники колледжа вполне обоснованно могут быть раздражены тем, что им не удаётся выбрать популярные факультативные дисциплины. Но обычно они лишь ворчат. Парас Джа стал исключением. Разгневанный тем, что старшекурсникам отдаё... |
| 16.06.2023 | Illinois Hospital First To Shut Down Completely After Ransomware Attack | You may have noticed that for-profit healthcare in the U.S. is already a hot mess, especially in the most already marginalized parts of the country. Giant, mismanaged health care conglomerates have long pushed their underfunded staffers to ... |
| 13.06.2023 | Габон забрал назад свой национальный домен .ga у регистратора Freenom | Африканское государство Габон вернуло в своё ведение домен .ga, которое почти десять лет управлялось регистратором Freenom. Все зарегистрированные через Freenom домены отныне невалидны, доменная зона начинает жизнь «с чистого листа».
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| 10.06.2023 | Самые громкие события инфобеза за май 2023 года | Всем привет! Мы подводим итоги последнего весеннего месяца в нашем традиционном дайджесте. В мае особо отличилась Toyota, обнаружившая у себя несколько облаков, висевших без пароля десять лет, злоумышленники из Cl0p устроили массовую атаку ... |
| 10.05.2023 | Самые громкие события инфобеза за апрель 2023 года | Всем привет! Это наш традиционный дайджест самых громких новостей информационной безопасности за ушедший месяц. Апрель был богат на интересные события: двойная атака на цепочку поставок от северокорейцев из Lazarus, перехват ФБР Genesis Mar... |
| 10.05.2023 | Cybercrime Disruption Through Civil Litigation and Equitable Remedies | Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit works to protect Microsoft and its customers from digital threats. For several years, it has successfully pursued a strategy to disrupt cybercrime activity through civil litigation seeking injunctive relief b... |
| 09.05.2023 | Feds seize 13 more DDoS-for-hire platforms in ongoing international crackdown | Enlarge / A domain seizure notice from the Justice Department, showing the national seals of several other governments. reader comments 28 with
The US Justice Department has sized the domains of 13 DDoS-for-hire services as part of an ongoi... |
| 29.04.2023 | Sensitive data is being leaked from servers running Salesforce software | Enlarge
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Servers running software sold by Salesforce are leaking sensitive data managed by government agencies, banks, and other organizations, according to a post published Friday by KrebsOnSecurity.
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| 28.04.2023 | Salesforce Community Sites Are Leaking Private Data | A configuration issue is causing Salesforce Community sites, including those of banks and healthcare companies, to leak data.
KrebsOnSecurity first reported on an issue that was discovered by security researcher Charan Akiri, who wrote a pr... |
| 13.04.2023 | Data center dilemma: Retail CIOs seek ways to balance cost and value in 2023 | This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: Data centers in 2023: How to do more with less.
Retail CIOs and their teams face complex challenges in reducing data center costs and increasing the value their data cen... |
| 12.04.2023 | FBI office warns against using public phone charging stations at airports or malls, citing malware risk | The FBI's Denver office is warning the public against using public charging stations, such as ones you might see at an airport or the mall.
"Bad actors have figured out ways to use public USB ports to introduce malware and monitoring s... |
| 05.04.2023 | Operation Cookie Monster: Feds seize “notorious hacker marketplace” | Enlarge / Domain seizure message at genesis.market. reader comments 21 with
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| 19.03.2023 | 2 Americans Arrested, Charged With DEA Portal Hack in 2022 | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 19 March 2023, 07:03 am
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Two people were convicted for their alleged involvement in the DEA web platform hack last year.
Two individuals have been prosecuted for their sus... |
| 15.03.2023 | Social Media Isn’t a Public Function, but Maybe the Internet Is | If the buzz over the “Twitter Files” has revealed anything, it’s that the prospect of finding state action in the workings of social media companies can be alluring indeed. For those who think today’s biggest platforms have gone too far in ... |
| 14.03.2023 | Supply Chains Need The Protection Of Unified Multifunctional Cybersecurity | David Schiffer is the CEO of RevBits and formerly of Safe Banking Systems (SBS). RevBits develops cybersecurity software for organizations. |
| 09.03.2023 | How the FBI proved a remote admin tool was actually malware | On Thursday, the U.S. government announced that it had seized a website used to sell malware designed to spy on computers and cellphones.
The malware is called NetWire, and for years several cybersecurity companies, and at least one governm... |
| 08.03.2023 | Thanks Mr. Musk, Now I Have More Security | Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pictured as he attends the start of the production at Tesla's "Gigafactory" ... [+] on March 22, 2022 in Gruenheide, southeast of Berli (Photo by Patrick Pleul / POOL / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP ... |
| 06.03.2023 | New National Cybersecurity Strategy: resilience, regs, collaboration and pain (for attackers) | Image: Michael Traitov/Adobe Stock
In the first cybersecurity framework since 2018, the White House has released to the wild its new National Cybersecurity Strategy, articulating a need for public and private partnerships, international col... |
| 03.03.2023 | Dish Network Finally Acknowledges Huge Hack After Days Of Not Answering Questions | Early this week reports began to emerge that Dish Network was suffering from a widespread outage that effectively prevented a large chunk of the company’s employees from being able to work for more than four days. Initially, Dish tried to d... |
| 02.03.2023 | Hackers Claim To Have Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times Last Year | Back in January, we noted that T-Mobile had recently revealed it had been hacked eight times over the last five years. But a new report by security expert Brian Krebs suggests it could be far worse than that. According to Krebs, hackers are... |
| 02.03.2023 | В 2022 году хакеры взламывали T-Mobile более 100 раз | В течение 2022 года три группы киберпреступников заявили, что смогли получить доступ к внутренним сетям гиганта связи T‑Mobile более чем 100 раз. В каждом случае цель злоумышленников была одной и той же: выманить у сотрудников T‑Mobile дост... |
| 01.03.2023 | Hackers Reportedly Compromised T-Mobile 100+ Times in 2022 | T-Mobile does not have a good reputation when it comes to cybersecurity, and that’s about to get a whole lot worse.
T-Mobile has had multiple cybersecurity breaches over the last few years, impacting tens of millions of users and costing th... |
| 28.02.2023 | (Не) безопасный дайджест: коварные QR, утечки на миллионы и «откровение» инсайдера | Пришло время обсудить ИБ‑инциденты, которые случились в феврале. Традиционно в дайджесте собрали всё самое впечатляющее — тут и новые сценарии для мошенничества, и утекшие миллионы у очередного ритейлера и даже развязка культового инцидента... |
| 17.02.2023 | FBI confirms it’s investigating a cyber incident on its own network | The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that it’s investigating malicious cyber activity on its own network.
CNN reported on Friday that hackers compromised an FBI computer system at the agency’s New York field office, citing... |
| 11.02.2023 | Top security trends you can expect in 2023 | We’ve already had the first major API-related cybersecurity incident for 2023, and the year has barely started. The T-Mobile API breach exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) of 37 million customers. The API attack had been g... |
| 09.02.2023 | Darknet Revenues Fell After Hydra’s Shutdown: Chainalysis | Shutdown of the once-dominant darknet marketplace Hydra in 2022 changed the market for drugs and other illicit goods. According to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, blockchain data shows many of the darknet vendors quickly switched fro... |
| 26.01.2023 | US federal agencies hacked using legitimate remote desktop tools | The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency has warned that criminal financially motivated hackers compromised federal agencies using legitimate remote desktop software.
CISA said in a joint advisory with the National Security Agency on Wedn... |
| 19.01.2023 | Experian’s Treasure Trove Of PII Breached By Simply Altering URLs | Data brokers like Experian and Equifax pose tempting targets for malicious hackers looking to find another source for personal info they can hawk online to other malicious people. The sad thing is, no one really needs to hack their database... |
| 06.01.2023 | Twitter data breach shows APIs are a goldmine for PII and social engineering | Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here.
A Twitter API vulnerability shipped in June 2021 (and later patched) has come back to haunt the organization. In December, one hacker claimed to have the person... |
| 28.12.2022 | Ring Doorbell Cams Hijacked By Assholes To Provide Live Streams Of SWATtings | Amazon’s home security tech acquisition, Ring, has become a dominant player in this industry sector. Some of that is due to Amazon’s backing. A lot of this is due to extremely inappropriate relationships with law enforcement, which convert ... |
| 20.12.2022 | FBI Private Sector Cyberthreat Reporting Database Hacked By Apparently Unreported Cyberthreat | Is this irony? It kind of seems like it is. Maybe it isn’t. It could just be a coincidence. An extremely unfortunate, ironic coincidence. |
| 02.11.2022 | «Вас взломает первый освободившийся оператор»: программы-вымогатели и их жертвы | Первые хакеры были просто любопытными ребятами, которые хотели посмотреть, как выйти за пределы документированных возможностей технологии. Но с популяризацией и развитием персональных компьютеров «любопытство» хакеров становилось всё менее ... |
| 21.10.2022 | Nearly 600,000 people on LinkedIn listed Apple as their employer on one day in October. The next day, half the profiles disappeared as the platform cracks down on fake accounts. | Last week, a developer who tracks LinkedIn spotted massive drops in people claiming to work at Apple and Amazon.
LinkedIn confirmed to Insider that the purge is part of its ongoing effort to tackle fraud and fake accounts.
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| 21.10.2022 | Fake Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn Removed in Latest Bot Deletion | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 21 October 2022, 07:10 am
Thousands of LinkedIn bot accounts have been removed from the platform after a massive purge. The fake accounts are said to be affiliated with Apple, but the cybersecurity experts discovere... |
| 21.10.2022 | What Impact, if Any, Does Killnet Have? | On Oct. 4, a cryptic message first appeared in the Telegram forum We Are Killnet, hosted by the pro-Russian hacktivist collective Killnet, and spread quickly across Twitter. The message roughly translates to: “Weather forecast for 7 days! 1... |
| 11.10.2022 | Who Is Recruiting Your Workers? It Could Be A Hacker Group | Saryu Nayyar is CEO of Gurucul, a provider of behavioral security analytics technology and a recognized expert in cyber risk management. |
| 04.10.2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Big Tech’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost | We open today’s episode by teasing the Supreme Court’s decision to review whether section 230 protects big platforms from liability for materially assisting terror groups whose speech they distribute (or even recommend). I predict that this... |
| 27.09.2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: President DeSantis’s First Supreme Court Nominee | This episode features a much deeper, and more diverse, examination of the Fifth Circuit decision upholding Texas’s social media law. We devote the last half of the episode to a structured dialogue about the opinion between Adam Candeub and ... |
| 10.09.2022 | Bad News Confirmed For 1.3 Billion Apple iMessage Users | |
| 22.08.2022 | Cookie theft threat: When Multi-Factor authentication is not enough | Image: Adobe Stock
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a good security measure, most of the time. It enables a company to add a layer of security to its corporate VPN, for example. The user, in addition to a (hopefully) strong password, ne... |
| 08.08.2022 | How crypto scams work – and why enterprises need to take note | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
For the crypto market, 2022 has seen both definite lows and uncertain surges. Last month, an analysis from TIME predict... |
| 29.06.2022 | A Cyber Persistence Way to Norms | Cyberspace is a strategic competitive environment where continuous activity short of use of force has cumulatively threatened international peace and stability. States have sought to both manage and regulate this threatening behavior throug... |
| 08.06.2022 | Feds seize SSNDOB marketplace that listed personal data of 24 million people | Enlarge / Seizure notice on ssndob.ws. reader comments 24 with 21 posters participating
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| 29.05.2022 | 3 most common — and dangerous — holes in companies’ cyber defenses | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 17.05.2022 | Ransomware Gang Extorted 725 BTC in One Attack, On-Chain Sleuths Find | The Takeaway
By combining chat logs leaked in February with subsequent analysis of blockchain data, researchers have gleaned new insights about the infamous Conti ransomware gang.
The gang used over-the-counter (OTC) brokers in Russia to ca... |