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Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

Security Affairs

As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. As of April 28, the website offers to download data for free from 9 mainly US companies from the aviation, financial, education, manufacturing, and logistics companies which refused to pay the ransom.

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SILENTFADE a long-running malware campaign targeted Facebook AD platform

Security Affairs

The attackers primarily ran malicious ad campaigns, often in the form of advertising pharmaceutical pills and spam with fake celebrity endorsements.” The malware sends the data to the C2 servers in the form of an encrypted JSON blob through custom HTTP headers.

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Mobile Malware: Threats and Solutions

eSecurity Planet

is a type of malware that will encrypt a user’s data and hold it for “ransom” until the attacker is paid. Man-in-the-middle (MiTM) : In a MiTM attack, the data stream from the app to the back-end web service is not properly configured for encryption, enabling an attacker to potentially intercept mobile traffic. ransomware?

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2023 – 4.3 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

More worryingly, the same database contained usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords. The crooks were able to download nightly backups of the complete database, which contained all public forum posts, team forum posts and direct messages.

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Understanding Blockchain and its Impact on Legal Technology, Part Two

eDiscovery Daily

Areas such as financial services, technology, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and energy industries all needed systems with these two factors. The audit trail itself is visible to all participants yet allows encryption of individual transactions. How Blockchain Works.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Thus, if a business encrypts the personal information of the consumer, and that information is stolen, there will be no private right of action under the CCPA. Sounds cybersecurity practices are also key to mitigating liability under the new law. That does not mean, however, that the business would be completely off the hook. Code § 56.05(j).

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