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Texas AG Sues Meta Over Collection and Use of Biometric Data

Hunton Privacy

On February 14, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought suit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, over the company’s collection and use of biometric data. The suit focuses on Meta’s “tag suggestions” feature, which the company has since retired.

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BlackCat (aka ALPHV) Ransomware is Increasing Stakes up to $2,5M in Demands

Security Affairs

Blackcat ransomware is one of the fastest-growing Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) underground groups practicing so called “ quadruple extortion ” by pressing victims to pay – leveraging encryption, data theft, denial of service (DoS) and harassment. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Poulight Stealer, a new Comprehensive Stealer from Russia

Security Affairs

Poulight was first spotted by MalwareBytes researchers in middle March and indicators of compromise have been already shared among the security community. The “Starter” class contains the routine to load the components of the malware. This action is performed by the first instruction “ global::Buffer.Start() ”.

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Moodle flaw exposed users to account takeover

Security Affairs

Wizcase experts discovered a security flaw in the open-source learning platform Moodle that could allow accounts takeover. At the beginning of October 2020, the Wizcase cyber research team, led by Ata Hakcil, discovered a security vulnerability in the open-source learning platform Moodle. Consequences and risks.

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Unveiling JsOutProx: A New Enterprise Grade Implant

Security Affairs

The first line of this file embeds a huge array of Base64 encoded elements, but its raw decoding led only to other incomprehensible data, evidencing the presence of a more complex layer of protection. Initialization of basic malware information. Other structures containing Base64 data. Array with Base64 encoded elements.

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