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British campaigners file US lawsuit against firms controlled by Arron Banks

The Guardian Data Protection

Fair Vote Project , a British activist group that is campaigning for changes to UK election rules, has launched the legal action against Eldon Insurance and a Bristol-based software development group, Big Data Dolphins.

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Prometei botnet is targeting ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange flaws

Security Affairs

A deep investigation on artifacts uploaded on VirusTotal allowed the experts to determine that the botnet may have been active at least since May 2016. The crypto-mining has a modular structure and employes multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason.

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MY TAKE: Poorly protected local government networks cast shadow on midterm elections

The Last Watchdog

During 2016, 39 states were hacked. As Ananth explained, the city did two things right: they had cyber insurance and they didn’t pay the ransom. This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. Election threat. Let’s look at what happened in Atlanta again.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

SOAR, if you haven’t heard, is a hot new technology stack that takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies — techniques that are deeply utilized in financial services, retailing and other business verticals – and applies them to cybersecurity. Demisto launched in May 2016. Smart money.

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State Attackers Moving from Stealing Data to Social Meddling

Ascent Innovations

The new cyber intelligence report expects the monetary benefits will allure the use of crypto-mining malware and cryptocurrencies by cyber attackers this year. They look to steal credit card numbers from financial services & insurance companies or install malware on the critical systems used by healthcare companies. New bad actors.

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Capital One Data Theft Impacts 106M People

Krebs on Security

consumers, and roughly 1 million Social Insurance Numbers (SINs) for Canadian credit card customers. Specifically, Erratic mentions one botnet involved in cryptojacking, which uses snippets of code installed on Web sites — often surreptitiously — designed to mine cryptocurrencies.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. In 2016, while the U.S.

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