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.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law. LinkedIn sent a cease-and-desist letter to hiQ in 2017 requesting that the company stop accessing and copying data from its servers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

“Remarkably, Respondent instead allowed unfettered access to the personal and financial data of millions of its customers for six more months until the breach and its serious ramifications were widely publicized by a nationally recognized cybersecurity industry journalist,” the DFS explained in a statement on the charges.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2024

million) worth of cryptocurrencies via mining activities. “The suspect is believed to have mined over USD 2 million (EUR 1.8 ” An unnamed cloud service provider supported the investigation for months. “The suspect is believed to have mined over USD 2 million (EUR 1.8 million) in cryptocurrencies.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

The FBI has seized the WeLeakInfo.com websites for selling subscriptions to data that were exposed in data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com is a data breach notification service that allows its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. SecurityAffairs – WeLeakInfo, data breach).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Atlassian fixed a critical zero-day flaw in its Confluence Data Center and Server software, which has been exploited in the wild. Software giant Atlassian released emergency security updates to address a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22515 (CVSS score 10), in its Confluence Data Center and Server software.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Hackers Exploited an Unpatched VMWare Horizon Server to Gain Access Iranian hackers used Log4Shell to penetrate the network of an unnamed federal agency where they stole passwords and implanted cryptocurrency mining software. Whether the Iranians were acting wholly on Tehran's behalf, on their own behalf, or both, is uncertain.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 10, 2023

Without a doubt, there is exponential growth in the access to and volume of process data we all, as individuals, have at our fingertips. Not only can data support a more compelling change management strategy, but it’s also able to identify, accelerate and embed change faster, all of which is critical in our continuously changing world.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 22, 2018

Culture secretary Matt Hancock said app designed to engage with constituents was changed after criticism that it was harvesting data The culture secretary, Matt Hancock, has been forced to change the settings on his own app after complaints that it was harvesting the data and photos of users. Continue reading.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2023

Experts warn of a new malware campaign using sensitive information stolen from a bank as a lure to spread the remote access trojan BitRAT. Qualys experts spotted a new malware campaign spreading a remote access trojan called BitRAT using sensitive information stolen from a bank as a lure in phishing messages. Monero mining.

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erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

How Data Literacy Turns Data from a Burden to a Benefit. Today, data literacy is more important than ever. Data is now being used to support business decisions few executives thought they’d be making even six months ago. So, what is data literacy? What Is Data Literacy? Data Literacy Definition.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate and simple for them to encrypt. A few takeaways: Outside a database. Ransomware target.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Data breaches don’t just occur when cyber criminals hack your systems, and it’s as well to remember that sensitive information in all forms – including hard copy records – should be afforded appropriate protection. The app then still […] accesses the photo library whether the user denies access or not.”. What’s that?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. 27, 2019 and already mined at least 209 Monero (XMR), valued to be around $32,056 USD. Redis Spring Data Commons CVE-2018-1273, versions prior to 1.13-1.13.10, x before 1.4.3) 1.13.10, 2.0-2.0.5

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 28, 2024

It’s yet another hardware side-channel attack: The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is likely to access in the near future. M-series chips are divided into what are known as clusters.

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Collibra

MARCH 12, 2024

The term “advanced analytics” gained widespread recognition in the fields of data analysis and business intelligence (BI) during the early 2000s. Today, advanced analytics encompasses a broad array of techniques and methodologies used to extract deep insights from data. Data quality scores are displayed in Collibra.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2018

Group-IB is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations. Group-IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks, is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Prosecutors Say Suspect Stole IDs and Cloud Resources to Mine Virtual Currencies A Singapore man allegedly ran a large-scale cryptocurrency mining scheme that involved using stolen identities to access Amazon and Google cloud computing resources, according to a 14-count U.S. Justice Department indictment.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A major focus of cybersecurity as an industry is its efforts to detect, root out, and respond to potential fraudsters attempting to trick companies and people out of their money, data, or both. According to data from the Federal Reserve , the 55-69 age group currently controls 41.2% So why do scammers go after older individuals more?

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

“In the specific case of the compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters, we observed that a botnet operator has been installing backdoored SSH servers and a suite of scripts on the compromised devices for years without much attention from the security industry, allowing persistent access. . ” reported Trend Micro.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

The bot borrows a large portion of its code from the original Mirai botnet, but unlike other IoT malware families, it implements a built-in capability to brute force credentials and gain access to SSH servers instead of Telnet as implemented in Mirai. These samples included new code for information gathering and data exfiltration.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

•Leaked email: Companies or third-party vendors put email address security at risk when they experience data breaches. An email address’s connection to personal information is valuable, so scammers try to access it. Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. Create a second email.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 22, 2023

How Thales and Red Hat Secure Kubernetes Data in a 5G World madhav Fri, 06/23/2023 - 05:03 The Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) that operate 5G mobile broadband networks face many challenges related to their highly distributed infrastructure. This data is stored across numerous systems and platforms, including Kubernetes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 22, 2023

How Thales and Red Hat Secure Kubernetes Data in a 5G World madhav Fri, 06/23/2023 - 05:03 The Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) that operate 5G mobile broadband networks face many challenges related to their highly distributed infrastructure. This data is stored across numerous systems and platforms, including Kubernetes.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 27, 2021

The LemonDuck malware that for the past couple of years has been known for its cryptocurrency mining and botnet capabilities is evolving into a much broader threat, moving into new areas of cyber attacks, targeting both Linux and Microsoft systems and expanding its geographical reach, according to security researchers with Microsoft.

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Collibra

JULY 6, 2023

We’re excited to continue to extend our support of the Microsoft ecosystem with our new Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Azure Data Lake Storage integrations, as well as significant enhancements to our Power BI integration. Our new ADLS integration is designed to retrieve, map and ingest metadata from ADLS into the Collibra Data Catalog.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

According to the Google developer portal , “The adb command facilitates a variety of device actions, such as installing and debugging apps, and it provides access to a Unix shell that you can use to run a variety of commands on a device.” It is also clear some people are insecurely rooting their devices, too.”

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InfoGovNuggets

JUNE 4, 2018

“Wall Street Moves Toward Mining of Social-Media Data,” The Wall Street Journal , June 4, 2018 B4. Companies now looking focusing on “alternative data reports” concerning a potential acquisition target, which are things such as user “purchase data, mobile app usage[,] and web surveys of prices.”

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Today’s data leaders are expected to make organizations run more efficiently, improve business value, and foster innovation. Their role has expanded from providing business intelligence to management, to ensuring high-quality data is accessible and useful across the enterprise. Building the foundation: data architecture.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The boundaries between research and grey data are blurring, making it more difficult to assess the risks and responsibilities associated with any data collection. Many sets of data, both research and grey, fall outside privacy regulations such as HIPAA, FERPA, and PII.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 They accessed 41.5 Data breached: 41,500,000 records.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The advisory came less than 24 hours after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look at a crime group offering a service that people can hire to steal VPN credentials and other sensitive data from employees working remotely during the Coronavirus pandemic. authenticate the phone call before sensitive information can be discussed.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The malware deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency. The malicious scripts are being developed to steal more sensitive data such as credentials. aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config

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erwin

MAY 7, 2020

Although there is some crossover, there are stark differences between data architecture and enterprise architecture (EA). That’s because data architecture is actually an offshoot of enterprise architecture. The difference between data architecture and enterprise architecture can be represented with the Zachman Framework.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

The shc downloader subsequently proceeds to fetch the XMRig miner software to mine cryptocurrency, with the IRC bot capable of establishing connections with a remote server to fetch commands for mounting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. ” reads the report published by ASEC. ” continues the report.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while machine learning focuses on learning from the data itself. What is data science? One challenge in applying data science is to identify pertinent business issues.

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