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The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data

Schneier on Security

Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. This isn’t new, this isn’t just data of non-US citizens, and this isn’t the US military.

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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Krebs on Security

as members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. Attorney General Bill Barr said at a press conference today that the Justice Department doesn’t normally charge members of another country’s military with crimes (this is only the second time the agency has indicted Chinese military hackers).

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Classified NATO documents sold on darkweb after they were stolen from Portugal

Security Affairs

After discovering that Classified NATO documents belonging to the Armed Forces General Staff agency of Portugal (EMGFA) were offered for sale on the darkweb, the Portuguese agency discovered it has suffered a cyberattack. It is responsible for the planning, command and control of the Portuguese Armed Forces.

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Military documents about MQ-9 Reaper drone leaked on dark web

The Security Ledger

Hackers have put up for sale on the dark web sensitive military documents, some associated with the U.S. military’s MQ-9 Reaper drone aircraft, one of its most lethal and technologically advanced drones, security research firm Recorded Future recently discovered. Read the whole entry. » Read the whole entry. »

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 471 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Ohio Lottery data breach impacted over 538,000 individuals Notorius threat actor IntelBroker claims the hack of the Europol A cyberattack hit the US healthcare giant Ascension Google fixes fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year Russia-linked APT28 targets government Polish institutions Citrix warns customers to update PuTTY version installed (..)

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Threat actors hacked Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom

Security Affairs

Threat actors stole sensitive information from the company, including military and government documents, revealed Taiwan’s Defense Ministry. Leaked data, including a contract between the Navy and Chunghwa Telecom, are available for sale on a dark web hacking forum, Broadcaster TVBS first reported.

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Here’s Why Credit Card Fraud is Still a Thing

Krebs on Security

McCoy and fellow NYU researchers found BriansClub earned close to $104 million in gross revenue from 2015 to early 2019, and listed over 19 million unique card numbers for sale. Ditto for the relatively few corporate and business cards for sale. Although Visa cards made up more than half of accounts put up for sale (12.1

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