Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2022
While Magecart-Style JavaScript Skimmers Predominate, Old-School Attacks Continue Payment card data theft remains alive and well in the cybercrime underground, especially via the use of JavaScript skimmers. But security researchers find that some attackers have stayed old-school, continuing to use malware on point-of-sale terminals to steal "dumps" of card data.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Humans are rather easily duped. And this is the fundamental reason phishing persists as a predominant cybercriminal activity. Related: How MSSPs help secure business networks. Tricking someone into clicking to a faked landing page and typing in their personal information has become an ingrained pitfall of digital commerce. The deleterious impact on large enterprises and small businesses alike has been – and continues to be — profound.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Immediate Updating Recommended as Any App in iOS and iPad Exploitable Apple has issued a slew of security updates amidst reports that its iOS devices are being actively exploited via a zero-day vulnerability in the kernel. While Apple hasn't attributed the exploits to any specific group, experts say surveillance malware developers are a likely culprit.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2022
From ransomware to remote workers to cyber-extortion gangs to Fred in shipping who clicks on the wrong link, cybersecurity concerns can keep you awake this season and all seasons.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Malware-as-a-Service Infostealer Infected Millions of Computers A Ukrainian man is fighting extradition to the United States where he faces a four count criminal indictment for his role in operating the Raccoon malware-as-a-service infostealer malware. Dutch authorities arrested Mark Sokolovsky, 26, in March, shows an unsealed indictment.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Sen. Mark Warner Demands Answers From Meta on its Pixel Practices As controversy grows around the use of Facebook Pixel code and similar tracking tools that harvest sensitive health and other personal data of consumers, so does the pressure from lawmakers demanding answers from tech vendors about those data collection practices.
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 25, 2022
On October 20, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought suit against Google alleging various violations of Texas’s biometric privacy law , including that the company unlawfully collected and used the biometric data of millions of Texans without obtaining proper consent. The laws u it alleges that, since 2015, Google has collected millions of biometric identifiers of Texas consumers, such as voiceprints and records of face geometry, through Google’s various products, including Google Photo
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2022
'No Cooperation From the Polish Authorities,' Laments Inquiry Head Jeroen Lenaers An inquiry into European Union countries' use of Pegasus spyware is running into national opposition, said Jeroen Lenaers, head of the investigative committee. Pegasus can invoke national security sensitivities, Lenaers acknowledged, but said the inquiry is concentrated on questions of law.
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Symantec researchers are warning that a BlackByte ransomware affiliate has begun using a custom data exfiltration tool, Infostealer.Exbyte, to steal data from victims’ networks as part of their attacks. Still, as a recent breach of an Indian power company by a different ransomware group demonstrates, the extra effort of stealing data doesn’t always pay off for the attackers — even when it leads to embarrassing data leaks for the victim.
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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2022
State Regulators Aggressively Apply Enforcement Actions in Cybersecurity Incidents Health insurer EyeMed Vision Care will pay New York regulators $4.5 million to settle an investigation into its 2020 data breach incident. States are becoming more aggressive in applying enforcement actions against data breaches, say regulatory attorneys.
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 25, 2022
On October 24, 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) issued a £4.4 million fine to Interserve Group Limited for failing to keep employee personal data secure, which violates Article 5(1)(f) and Article 32 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), during the period of March 2019 to December 2020. The ICO determined that such violations rendered Interserve vulnerable to the cyber attack which took place between March 2020 and May 2020, affecting the personal data of u
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Nation-State actors Aren't Going to Be as Obnoxious and Public Is Australia's data breach wave a coincidence, bad luck or intentional targeting? Maybe all three. But the security weaknesses that have led to the incidents are not exotic. Here's an analysis.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The Hive ransomware gang, which claimed the responsibility for the Tata Power data breach, started leaking data. On October 14, Tata Power, India’s largest power generation company, announced that was hit by a cyber attack. Threat actors hit the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure of the company. The company confirmed that the security breach impacted “some of its IT systems.”.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Top Executives Increasingly Held Rsponsible for Company Cybersecurity The chief executive of alcohol delivery app Drizly is set to come under a decade long requirement imposed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to ensure whatever company he oversees has an information security program. A hacker stole customers records of 2.5 million individuals from Drizly in 2020.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 25, 2022
AlphaBay was the largest online drug bazaar in history, run by a technological mastermind who seemed untouchable—until his tech was turned against him.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 25, 2022
A new malvertising campaign, code-named Dormant Colors, is delivering malicious Google Chrome extensions that hijack targets’ browsers. Researchers at Guardio Labs have discovered a new malvertising campaign, called Dormant Colors, aimed at delivering malicious Google Chrome extensions. The Chrome extensions hijack searches and insert affiliate links into web pages.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2022
A pair of Microsoft bugs allow cyberattackers to bypass native Windows Internet download security, says former CERT CC researcher who discovered the flaws.
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Security Affairs
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Researchers reported that threat actors used 2 PoS malware variants to steal information about more than 167,000 credit cards. Cybersecurity firm Group-IB discovered two PoS malware to steal data associated with more than 167,000 credit cards from point-of-sale payment terminals. On April 19, 2022, Group-IB researchers identified the C2 server of the POS malware called MajikPOS.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Led by NTTVC, the funding enables further development of Cloud Native Intrusion Prevention from the team that invented Network Intrusion Prevention Systems.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 25, 2022
A high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737, has been disclosed in the SQLite database library. The security expert Andreas Kellas detailed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the SQLite database library, which was introduced in October 2000. The CVE-2022-35737 flaw is an integer overflow issue that impacts SQLite versions 1.0.12 through 3.39.1.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2022
A credential-stealing attack that spoofed LinkedIn and targeted a national travel organization skates past DMARC and other email protections.
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Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 25, 2022
On September 23, 2022, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth submitted a response to the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (“DCMS”) on its Consultation on establishing a pro-innovation approach to regulating AI (the “Response”). In the Response, CIPL highlights several issues for DCMS consideration to augment its proposal and ensure a future-proof, robust and realistic approach to regulating the AI ecosystem.
The Guardian Data Protection
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Experts suggest using multifactor authentication and telling your bank to put extra security checks in place Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Millions of Medibank’s current and former customers have had their personal information, including health claims, exposed in a hack of the company’s customer database.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2022
A more secure organization starts with stronger alignment between HR and the IT operation.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Authors: Ross McKean , Henry Pelling. On 24 October 2022, the ICO issued a penalty notice (MPN) to Interserve Group Limited (Interserve), imposing a fine of £4.4m for violations of the GDPR (the violations were pre-Brexit). The ICO found that Interserve had failed to put appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure personal data (in contravention of Articles 5(1)(f) and 32 GDPR) for a period of ~20 months.
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Cybersecurity pros discuss a trio of lessons from the Equifax hack and how to prevent similar attacks in the enterprise.
Jamf
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Is your organization focused on security? Does the task of reviewing various security controls, deciding which apply to you and then implementing them seem like a monumental task? Read on to see how CIS Control Enforcement — available in the Jamf Marketplace from Mann Consulting — can help you implement CIS controls for your organization with little overhead.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Ursnif, a one-time banking Trojan also known as Gozi, becomes the latest codebase to be repurposed as a more general backdoor, as malware developers trend toward modularity.
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