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TA505 is expanding its operations

Security Affairs

The threat group is also known for its recent attack campaign against Bank and Retail business sectors, but the latest evidence indicates a potential expansion of its criminal operation to other industries too. The “-p” parameter, indeed, specify the password of the archive to be extracted. Part of extracted macro. exe” (SFX).

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8 Ways to Protect Yourself against Scams on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Adam Levin

in 2015 when BBB began collecting data. Legitimate retailers are never going to make you dig for the deals, so they aren’t going to put the good stuff in an attachment. It’s not just attachments from retailers, but also from shipping companies or financial institutions. On top of that, 80.5% Still, it’s important to be wary.

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21 Million stolen credentials from Fortune 500 companies available on the dark web

Security Affairs

“As many as 95% of the credentials contained unencrypted, or bruteforced and cracked by the attackers, plaintext passwords.” ” The following table shows stolen credentials per industry: Most of the login credentials (95%) include plaintext passwords, 76% of them were compromised during the last 12 months. .

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Consumers have their Say about Protection of Personal Data – Call for More Stringent Controls

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Tue, 10/11/2022 - 06:46. We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. The global study that informs the Index involved more than 21,000 participants across 11 countries.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? And as a consequence I inherited a family of raccoons living into my cottage.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? And as a consequence I inherited a family of raccoons living into my cottage.

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