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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2024 – 5,336,840,757 Records Breached

IT Governance

The number of records breached this month was high – particularly compared to March – largely due to two outlier events: Spy.pet, a data scraping website, offering 4,186,879,104 Discord messages for sale. This blog provides further analysis of the data we’ve collected. Data breached: 4,186,879,104 messages.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

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. Data scraping or web scraping is a typically automated process that extracts information from websites, allowing criminals to compile datasets containing personal information.

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Ukraine’s cyber police dismantled a massive bot farm spreading propaganda

Security Affairs

A gang of more than 100 individuals used fake social network accounts to conduct disinformation and psychological operations in support of the Russian government and its narrative on the invasion of Ukraine. The gang used a massive bot farm to distribute illegal content, personal data of Ukrainian citizens and commit frauds.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Understanding SEBI’s Framework for Cloud Services Adoption by Financial Entities in India

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Understanding SEBI’s Framework for Cloud Services Adoption by Financial Entities in India madhav Thu, 06/01/2023 - 06:17 Authorities and governments across the globe take measures and issue regulatory frameworks to protect the financial sector against the increasing threat landscape and make banks and other institutions resilient.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines.

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PCI DSS: Which PCI SAQ is Right for My Business?

IT Governance

Organisations that fall within Levels 2–4 of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) can attest to compliance with an SAQ (self-assessment questionnaire). Organisations that are subject to the PCI DSS must demonstrate that they have taken appropriate steps to secure the payment card data that they hold.