Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. Securities and Exchange Commission settled its investigation into the matter after the Fortune 500 company agreed to pay a paltry penalty of less than $500,000.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

This week, we discuss the Australian government’s loss of thousands of classified documents, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s buggy new app and the growing trend of cybercriminals using cryptocurrency miners. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation , which now possesses the documents, dubbed them the Cabinet Files.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. ” Once inside of a target organization, the hackers stole source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data and other information they could use or resell.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Researchers are cloud security firm Aqua have observed threat actors exploiting the recently disclosed Linux privilege escalation flaw Looney Tunables in attacks against cloud environments. The experts pointed out that this marks the first documented instance of such an exploit. while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 11, 2023

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2021

The resource contains information for the mining activity, the researchers identified a self-compiled version of the XMrig open-source miner containing information such as username, password, algorithm, and mining pool. The post ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ used to spread a cryptominer appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Security researchers discovered a new botnet, named Abcbot , that focused on Chinese cloud hosting providers over the past months. In November, researchers from Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team spotted the Abcbot botnet that was targeting Linux systems to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

A threat actor is offering for sale in a darkweb black-market internal documents of the Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML). As part of the regular monitoring of cybercrime forums and markets in the deep-web and darkweb , Cyble researchers spotted a threat actor named as R3dr0x who leaked (BEML) internal documents.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Welcome to our September 2023 catches of the month feature, which examines recent phishing scams and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. The ZIP file, titled “Changes to the vacation schedule”, contains a malicious link masquerading as a PDF document hosted on a SharePoint site.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks targeting companies. Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

As KrebsOnSecurity observed back in 2018 , many people — particularly older folks — proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

These files have been identified as variants of the XMRIG cryptocurrency mining software. Secure credentials by restricting where accounts and credentials can be used. In one attack documented by government experts, threat actors were able to move laterally inside the network and collect and exfiltrate sensitive data.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Application modernization starts with assessment of current legacy applications, data and infrastructure and applying the right modernization strategy (rehost, re-platform, refactor or rebuild) to achieve the desired result. Duplicative capabilities across applications and channels give rise to duplicative IT resources (e.g.,

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Now for the big challenge - security. The "s" in IoT is for Security Ok, so the joke is a stupid oldie, but a hard truth lies within it: there have been some shocking instances of security lapses in IoT devices. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet? Let's dive into it.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

After all, records management also involves security policies, regulatory compliance, and complete lifecycle management. The first phase is also adjusted to start with the capture of documents—this is the moment when a document is first stored in an information system (i.e., ” That sounds great! Extra Phases.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Experts devised 3 attacks Show Signed PDF Documents Cannot Be Trusted. CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019. CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

.” states a security notice published by the company. In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers. The post Google disrupts the Glupteba botnet appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Glupteba is a rootkit that steals passwords and other access credentials, disables security software, and tries to compromise other devices on the victim network — such as Internet routers and media storage servers — for use in relaying spam or other malicious traffic. attorney to pay Google’s legal fees.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Cybereason Nocturnus security researchers have identified an active campaign focused on the users of a large e-commerce platform in Latin America. information stealer that exfiltrates data using the node process.” bin, researchers also observed the use of a cryptocurrency mining module. . ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

The malware was developed to steal credentials, financial data, personal information, then the crooks offered them on the dark web marketplaces. “According to testimony at trial and court documents, Nicolescu, Miclaus, and a co-conspirator who pleaded guilty, collectively operated a criminal conspiracy from Bucharest, Romania.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Ukraine’s security service SBU announced to have blocked a cyber attack launched by Russian intelligence aimed at breaching information and telecommunications systems used by the country’s judiciary. Attackers launched a spear phishing attack using messages purporting to deliver accounting documents.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

A malicious advertising campaign originating out of Eastern Europe and operating since at least mid-June is targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to home networks, according to executives with GeoEdge, which offers ad security and quality solutions to online and mobile advertisers. IoT a Security Concern.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

For example, miners would expect to wear location tracking devices in the mine due to the risk of accidents, while office workers would not. The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is set to widen the circumstances where automated decision making can be used, but these restrictions remain in place at present.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ) have issued a joint security advisory to warn teleworkers of an ongoing vishing campaign targeting organizations from multiple US industry industries.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Sovrn , a company I still chair, has a similar mission, but with a serious data and tech focus. My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media. First, Data. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data.

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CGI

JANUARY 10, 2018

Envisioning new and hidden realities with data and augmented reality—a digital “twin city” example. Along with increases in connected devices, we’ve seen an exponential surge in the flow of data. Also growing at the same time is the need to store, secure, access and analyze this data. Wed, 01/10/2018 - 15:25.

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The Falcon's View

MARCH 12, 2018

I started my security (post-sysadmin) career heavily focused on security policy frameworks. Instead, we need to move to that "security as code" mentality and find ways to directly codify requirements in ways that are naturally adapted and maintained. End Dusty Tomes and (most) Out-of-Band Guidance.

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Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

According to the United Nations, easy-to-access data will improve policy decisions and increase accountability. In this context, several programs were pioneered that contribute to the detection of corruption and transparency through the use of big data technologies and open data, as well as the use of complex data processing algorithms.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Who Owns Our Personal Data? Who now owns that data?

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. Data poisoning attacks. which involve feeding training adversarial data to the classifier. duplicate) models or recover training data membership via blackbox probing. Model stealing techniques.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2024

When it comes to data security , the ancient art of cryptography has become a critical cornerstone of today’s digital age. Key management : The keys used in encrypting and decrypting data and associated tasks like key length, distribution, generation, rotation, etc. are kept secure.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of the basic principles for securing a data lake will be familiar to anyone who has secured a cloud security storage container. Of course, since most commercial data lakes build off of existing cloud infrastructure, this should be the case. Data Lake Security Scope. Data Lake Security Scope.

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