Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Ilya Volovik of Gemini Advisory Describes Research Findings Banking institutions, cryptocurrency exchanges and other companies have begun implementing video-based identity verification. But deepfake technology can be used to circumvent these security checks, says Ilya Volovik, a researcher at Gemini Advisory.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

million) from a multinational company in Hong Kong by employing a deepfake video call to deceive an employee into transferring the funds. The employee attended a video conference call with deepfake recreations of the company’s chief financial officer (CFO) and other employees who instructed him to transfer the funds.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 7, 2023

Vovan and Lexus Pose as Ukrainian Officials to Kremlin Critics A Russian threat actor headed by two prank callers whose targets for duplicity coincide with Kremlin state interests has for a year now leaned heavily into using email to schedule video calls with high profile North American and European officials and executives.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

information Commissioner’s Office to issue guidance to video teleconferencing companies on privacy, calling for end-to-end encryption.

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 25, 2024

A new wave of ads utilizing video of well-known celebrities seemingly promoting video games, fake giveaways, and more are starting to popup, and fans are falling for this trap.

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IG Guru

APRIL 23, 2024

The post Video: City of Sarasota Celebrates RIM Month first appeared on IG GURU. Check out the link to the post.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Video game publisher Ubisoft is investigating reports of an alleged data breach after popular researchers shared evidence of the hack. Ubisoft , the popular video game publisher, is examining reports of a potential data breach following the disclosure of evidence by prominent researchers vx-underground.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

Peekaboo Moments Hasn't Responded to Warning That It's Exposing Personal Content A baby photo and video-sharing app called Peekaboo Moments is exposing sensitive logs through an exposed Elasticsearch database, a researcher has found. The data includes baby photos and videos, birthdates, location data and device information.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Malwarebytes Says PlayBack Now Customer Sites Compromised While most payment card skimming attacks zero in on ecommerce sites for consumers, a newly discovered attack targeted PlayBack Now, an online video conferencing firm, Malwarebytes reports.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In this case, the scammers tell victims that they’ll get paid for liking YouTube videos. Researchers at Bitdefender warn that scammers are tricking victims with fake remote job opportunities.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the launch of Sora by OpenAI marks an unnerving milestone in video synthesis.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Google has backtracked on its plan to delete inactive YouTube videos—at least for now. Of course, it could change its mind anytime it wants. It would be nice if this would get people to think about the vulnerabilities inherent in letting a for-profit monopoly decide what of human creativity is worth saving.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 25, 2023

A researcher is warning that photos and video files shared in Signal chats may be hanging around on devices, even when they deleted the messages in which the images were shared. The post Beware: Images, Video Shared on Signal Hang Around appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The Alphv ransomware group claims to have hacked Clarion, the global manufacturer of audio and video equipment for cars and other vehicles. The Alphv ransomware group added Clarion, the global manufacturer of audio and video equipment for cars and other vehicles, to the list of victims on its Tor leak site.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Joseph Coelho Honorary Fellowship Acceptance Video CILIP Honorary Fellow Joseph Coelho, award-winning poet, playwright and author, is the current Waterstones Children's Laureate. In this video he speaks about the heroic work of librarians and his libraries marathon.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Google Project Zero researchers have discovered two vulnerabilities in the video conferencing software Zoom that expose users to attacks. Security researchers from Google Project Zero discovered two vulnerabilities in the video conferencing software Zoom that expose users to attacks. Zoom VDI before version 5.8.4 Pierluigi Paganini.

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OpenText Information Management

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Are you seeing an uptick in the number of audio and video (“A/V”) files in your document collection sets? In the past, these files were just a small, mostly inconsequential part of the data collection, such as sales and marketing materials, holiday videos, and user internet downloads. You are not alone!

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Welcome to the "How we do it" Video Series. If you are a Clerk, Records Manager or Archivist for City or County Government, our practical “How we do it” videos are for you! Sharing meeting minutes and videos are one of the ways that public sector employees meet compliance and open records regulations.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Videos featuring Elijah Wood, Mike Tyson, and Priscilla Presley have been edited to push anti-Ukraine disinformation, according to Microsoft researchers.

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Jamf

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Check out Jamf how-to video shorts for no-nonsense training and support tutorials from your Jamf Customer Success team.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 13, 2023

AI-generated videos pose as tutorials on how to get cracked versions of Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and more.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio are urging social media firms to create policies and standards to combat the spread of "deepfake" videos, which they say pose a potential threat to American democracy. Warner and Rubio Want Companies to Develop Standards and Policies to Combat Fakes U.S.

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MARCH 16, 2022

Russian disinformation continues, this time it used a deepfake video of Zelenskyy inviting Ukrainians to ‘lay down arms.’ ’ A deepfake video of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling its citizens to lay down arms is the last example of disinformation conducted by Russia-linked threat actors.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Convincing Face-Swapping Clips Easy to Create With Gaming Laptops and Free Tools The easy availability of tools for designing face-swapping deep-fake videos drove Symantec security researchers Vijay Thaware and Niranjan Agnihotri to design a tool for spotting deep fakes, which they described in a briefing at the Black Hat Europe 2018 conference in (..)

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps “: Abstract: In the post-pandemic era, video conferencing apps (VCAs) have converted previously private spaces — bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens — into semi-public extensions of the office. New research: “ Are You Really Muted?:

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Now in part 5, let's look at how it all works together, and I've done 11 short videos showing different parts of my house and how the IoT bits work there. All these videos are unedited, candid versions of precisely how my house works, enjoy ?? Opening the Garage Door Remotely The original goal of this whole IoT journey!

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Forescout Finds Serious Flaws in DTEN Conferencing Systems Video conferencing and collaboration systems are must-have tools for global companies. But new research by Forescout illustrates that elementary security errors in one vendor's system could have allowed attackers to snoop on meetings and view sensitive documents.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 22, 2022

The video uploaded to a hacked Ukrainian news website shows how far the technology has come, how it can be used in social engineering , as well as how the tech still needs to improve.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 20, 2023

The inquiries reflect a focus by the FTC on the extent of deceptive advertising on social media and video platforms; how the platforms create and monitor ads; and how they help consumers distinguish advertising and other commercial messages from other types of content.

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IG Guru

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The post Hong Kong firm loses over $25mn after employee’s video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’, others via WION first appeared on IG GURU. Check out the story here.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Researchers trained a machine-learning system on videos of people typing their PINs into ATMs: By using three tries, which is typically the maximum allowed number of attempts before the card is withheld, the researchers reconstructed the correct sequence for 5-digit PINs 30% of the time, and reached 41% for 4-digit PINs.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Ubisoft has confirmed that its popular video game series Just Dance has been targeted by cyber criminals. A statement from Ubisoft said that the breach was limited to “technical identifiers” including GameTags, profile IDs and device IDs, as well as recordings of Just Dance videos that were uploaded to a database accessible to other players.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2021

fine under GDPR against the online laptop and electronic goods retailer NBB for video-monitoring employees. million fine under the GDPR against an online laptop and electronic goods retailer NBB’s (notebooksbilliger.de) for video-monitoring employees for at least a couple of years. German data regulator LfD announced a €10.4M

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 20, 2021

Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 9, 2023

Much like a hostage's proof-of-life video, the ransomware gang offers the film as verification that it has the goods, and asks $1 million for the data.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

Researchers from Nozomi Networks discovered a critical vulnerability that can be exploited to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-32941 can be exploited by an attacker to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke, a provider of home and business security solutions.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Threat actors leaked source code and gameplay videos of Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA6) after they have allegedly breached Rockstar Game. Threat actors allegedly compromised Rockstar Game’s Slack server and Confluence wiki and leaked Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay videos and source code. The footage is early and unfinished, of course.

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