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Mollitiam Industries is the Newest Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer

Schneier on Security

Its spyware is also said to be equipped with a keylogger, which means every keystroke made on an infected device — including passwords, search queries and messages sent via encrypted messaging apps — can be tracked and monitored.

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Gootkit delivery platform Gootloader used to deliver additional payloads

Security Affairs

When the visitor clicks on the link provided by the search engine, they are redirected to landing pages that answer their exact questions, using the same wording as the search query. . “In recent years, almost as much effort has gone into improvement of its delivery method as has gone into the NodeJS-based malware itself.”

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Over a billion records belonging to CVS Health exposed online

Security Affairs

. “On March 21st, 2021 the WebsitePlanet research team in cooperation with Security Researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected database that contained over 1 billion records. Upon further research it was apparent that the data was connected to CVS Health.” ” reported the WebsitePlanet website.

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Cybercriminal greeners from Iran attack companies worldwide for financial gain

Security Affairs

The latter was downloaded from Iranian software sharing website – the Google search query in Persian language “ ?????? ??? ????? As the attackers usually need several attempts to brute force passwords and gain access to the RDP, it is important to enable account lockout policies by limiting the number of failed login attempts per user.

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I've Just Launched "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords for Download

Troy Hunt

Last August, I launched a little feature within Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) I called Pwned Passwords. This was a list of 320 million passwords from a range of different data breaches which organisations could use to better protect their own systems. Here's what it's all about: There's Now 501,636,842 Pwned Passwords.

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Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily

Krebs on Security

For the past three years, the source — we’ll call him “Bill” to preserve his requested anonymity — has been watching one group of threat actors that is mass-testing millions of usernames and passwords against the world’s major email providers each day. Why go after hotel or airline rewards?

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Secure Search is a Browser Hijacker – How to Remove it Now?

Security Affairs

Secured Search is a browser hijacker that changes your browser’s settings to promote securedsearch.com, let’s remove it. Secured Search is the same piece of software as ByteFence Secure Browsing. It alters your browser’s settings to promote securedsearch.com (which is not a legitimate search engine).

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