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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. com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. SocksEscort[.]com

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

Data Protection Report

The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service. Its privacy policy stated that the company would treat the data confidentially, and the company would not share data without user consent.

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Residential Proxies vs. Datacenter Proxies: Choosing the Right Option

Security Affairs

Datacenter Proxies: this blog post examines the contours of each type and provides info on how to choose the perfect proxy option In the robust landscape of the digital era, our need for privacy, security, and accessibility on the internet has never been more acute. So, how do you choose between the knight and the maverick?

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4 ways AI and Blockchain Transform Information Governance

Everteam

Below are 4 key takeaways from the conversation: EC M is moving toward federated information governance. Exploding data volumes and increased diversity in the IT ecosystem make centralized information management difficult. In the past, we couldn’t manage information in-place because the technology to do so was limited.

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Platinum APT and leverages steganography to hide C2 communications

Security Affairs

Threat actor located the C&C addresses on free hosting services, they used a large number of Dropbox accounts for storing the malicious code and store exfiltrated data. The researchers discovered that in the two attacks, it was used the same domain to store exfiltrated data. ” continues Kaspersky.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Teslas

ForAllSecure

Welcome to The Hacker Mind, an original podcast from for all secure. Herfurt: My name is Martin Herfurt and I'm a security researcher. And the coffee spur was an attempt to show manufacturers of hands free sets that pre-programmed pin that cannot be changed by the user would not be the ideal way to handle security in this respect.

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The CyberWire Daily Podcast EP. 389 With Guest Speaker David Brumley

ForAllSecure

The CyberWire Daily podcast delivers the day's cyber security news into a concise format. Dave Bittner: [00:00:03] A contractor for Russia's FSB security agency was apparently breached. Dave Bittner: [00:00:03] A contractor for Russia's FSB security agency was apparently breached. It's time to build your security the same way.

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