Security Affairs
AUGUST 5, 2021
The Uptycs Threat Research Team recently observed Golang-based worm dropping cryptominer binaries which use the MSR (Model Specific Register) driver to disable hardware prefetchers and increase the speed of the mining process by 15%. This is done to boost the miner execution performance, thereby increasing the speed of the mining process.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 9, 2023
For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages. Clearly, Experian found it simpler to respond this way, rather than acknowledging the problem and addressing the root causes (lazy authentication and abhorrent account recovery practices).
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Security Affairs
AUGUST 28, 2020
The malware is being distributed via large-scale COVID-19-themed spam campaigns, the messages use an RTF exploit targeting the CVE-2017-8570 Microsoft Office RCE to deliver the malicious payload. “This aspect of the campaign expands the mining operation to support computers running Linux.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 12, 2020
Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access. Your best option is to reduce your overall reliance on your phone number for added authentication at any online service. YOUR GOVERNMENT.
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Schneier on Security
JULY 20, 2020
It didn't matter whether individual accounts had a complicated and hard-to-remember password, or two-factor authentication. Many people rely on Twitter's authentication systems to know that someone who purports to be a certain celebrity, politician, or journalist is really that person. Your guess is as good as mine.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9 billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2
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