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HawkEye Keylogger is involved in attacks against business users

Security Affairs

The malware has been under active development since at least 2013 and it is offered for sale on various hacking forums as a keylogger and stealer. If you appreciate my effort in spreading cybersecurity awareness, please vote for Security Affairs in the section “Your Vote for the Best EU Security Tweeter” Thank you.

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Hunting the ICEFOG APT group after years of silence

Security Affairs

A security researcher found new evidence of activities conducted by the ICEFOG APT group, also tracked by the experts as Fucobha. Chi-en (Ashley) Shen, a senior security researcher at FireEye, collected evidence that demonstrates that China-linked APT group ICEFOG (aka Fucobha ) is still active. Feedbacks and questions are welcome!

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Observations on the Cybersecurity Executive Order and Presidential Policy Directive

Hunton Privacy

On May 29, 2009, the President promised to avoid security regulations even though he acknowledged that “the vast majority of our critical information infrastructure in the United States is owned and operated by the private sector.” by passing legislation to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks.”

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. The guidance was designed for national security purposes, but can be applied by anyone bringing AI capabilities into a managed environment. To learn more about our research methodology, click here.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

Kid Security breached again: children’s live GPS locations exposed on the Internet Last November , the parental control app Kid Security, which allows parents to monitor and control their children’s online safety, was found to have exposed more than 300 million records via misconfigured Elasticsearch and Logstash instances.

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

IT Governance

Source (New) Transport USA Yes 3,815 Okta Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Cyber security USA Yes 3,800 Shah Dixit & Associates, P.C. million for security failings relating to a 2018 cyber attack on its mobile banking platform. UniCredit fined €2.8 about the recent rise in Facebook and Instagram account takeovers by scammers.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Right To Repair

ForAllSecure

To answer these questions, Paul Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of the Security Ledger, has founded securepairs.org , a group of infosec experts who are volunteering their free time to fight for the digital right to repair in local legislation. ” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal?