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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Another domain with the Google Analytics code US-2665744 was sscompany[.]net. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs.

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$10,000,000 civil penalty for disclosing personal data without consent

Data Protection Report

In December 2020, the company revised its privacy policy (increasing its size to 15 pages) and added a statement that it used Facebook Pixel, a web analytics and advertising service by Facebook, Inc.

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Google WordPress Site Kit plugin grants attacker Search Console Access

Security Affairs

Experts found a critical bug in Google’s official WordPress plugin ‘Site Kit’ that could allow hackers to gain owner access to targeted sites’ Google Search Console. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the analysis published by Wordfence.

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Italian Garante Publishes Updated Guidelines on Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Hunton Privacy

The Garante indicates that the Guidelines apply to a variety of different technologies, including not just cookies, but also other types of identifiers (such as fingerprinting and radio-frequency identification tags).

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EUROPE: e-Privacy Regulation – changes regarding electronic communications and digital marketing

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

While the previous version made it clear that advertising displayed online “ to the general public ” was excluded from the scope of these rules (suggesting targeted advertising was covered), new changes suggest that even targeted advertising might not constitute direct marketing communications under the Proposal (e.g.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

Personalize customer experiences The use of AI is effective for creating personalized experiences at scale through chatbots, digital assistants and customer interfaces , delivering tailored experiences and targeted advertisements to customers and end-users. See what’s ahead AI can assist with forecasting.

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Unveiling JsOutProx: A New Enterprise Grade Implant

Security Affairs

Among this info, we recovered also its remote C2 address 91.189.180.199, operated by “ServeTheWorld”, a Norwegian provider renting his servers in Oslo, and a particular tag reporting the name “JsOutProx”. This led us to think that, this implant, has been designed to hit High-Value targets. Extremely characteristic. The “Dns” Plugin.

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