Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today unsealed charges against 11 alleged members of the GozNym malware network, an international cybercriminal syndicate suspected of stealing $100 million from more than 41,000 victims with the help of a stealthy banking trojan by the same name. Source: DOJ.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

In May 2107, security experts discovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-5689, in the remote management features implemented on computers shipped with Intel Chipset in past 9 years. The Electronic Frontier Foundation asked Intel to provide a way to disable the IME.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The domain validtree.com is registered through namecheap.com on 2017-12-07T15:55:27Z but recently renewed on 2019-10-16T05:35:18Z. That stage implements an obfuscated Javascript embedded code which decodes, by using a XOR with key=11, a third Javascript stage acting as drop and execute on 66.133.129.5 Funny isn’t it?

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Computer and Electronics Ransomware Security Retail 42

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

1 November 2017. I have authored 13 books on these subjects, including Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Norton, 2015). The particular vulnerability was fixed by Apache in a security patch that was made available on March 6, 2017. It confessed to another data leak in January 2017.

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Personal data Computer and Electronics Privacy Data breaches 83

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The 2015 amendments to Rule 26(b)(1), however, were meant to resolve any doubt, returning the proportionality factors to their original place as part of the very definition of what is discoverable. Private matters were discoverable by default, even where the privacy interests were significant and the relevance only marginal.

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The Texas Record

MAY 7, 2018

5] In 2017 Disney and Netflix were both hit by attackers who threatened to release media to the public if the companies didn’t pay up (neither did). [6] 2018, April 11). Ransomware Hits CDOT Computers. 2017, May 21). 2015, September 21). 2015, July 7). 1] Diamant, A. Ransomware attack cost city $2.7

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