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Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak

Krebs on Security

states for allegedly colluding with landlords to illegally raise rents. Image: Camdenliving.com Also, the fobs pass the credentials to his front door over the air in plain text, meaning someone could clone the fob just by bumping against him with a smartphone app made to read and write NFC tags. is being sued by multiple U.S.

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Russia-linked Turla APT targets Austria, Estonia, and NATO platform

Security Affairs

The list of previously known victims is long and also includes the Pentagon, the Swiss defense firm RUAG , US Department of State, European government entities and the US Central Command. The researchers investigated the TURLA’s infrastructures starting from the domains in the TAG report: wkoinfo.webredirect[.]org

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Patch Tuesday Fixes Actively Exploited MOTW Vulnerability

eSecurity Planet

Regarding that flaw, Microsoft observed, “An attacker can craft a malicious file that would evade Mark of the Web (MOTW) defenses, resulting in a limited loss of integrity and availability of security features such as Protected View in Microsoft Office, which rely on MOTW tagging.” Prioritizing Fixes.

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

Data Protection Report

Department of Justice, upon referral from the Federal Trade Commission, filed a complaint and stipulated order against telehealth company Cerebral, Inc. Its privacy policy stated that the company would treat the data confidentially, and the company would not share data without user consent. On April 15, 2024, the U.S.

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US arrested Latvian woman who developed part of Trickbot malware

Security Affairs

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of a Latvian woman for her alleged role in the development of the Trickbot malware. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of Alla Witte (aka Max), a Latvian woman that was charged for her alleged role in the development of the Trickbot malware.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 428 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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GUEST ESSAY: The drivers behind persistent ransomware — and defense tactics to deploy

The Last Watchdog

They’re often state-sponsored entities, foreign governments, or actual businesses. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. Have a response plan that details the steps you can take across all departments. High-stakes threat actors.