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The Sheriffs are in Town: Recent Developments in Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) Enforcement and Investor Education

Data Matters

According to the SEC’s order, Tomahawk Exploration LLC (Tomahawk or Company) and its founder attempted to raise money for its oil and gas exploration business through the offer and sale of blockchain tokens called “Tomahawkcoins” from July through September 2017. It is clear that Operation Cryptosweep extends beyond token offerings.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2023

IT Governance

Source: Truesec According to Telekom Security , DarkGate Loader’s developer, who goes by the name RastaFarEye, has been developing the malware since 2017 and has been advertising it as a malware-as-a-service model since 16 June 2023. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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The Link Between Ransomware and Cryptocurrency

eSecurity Planet

The dangers from ransomware have risen sharply since WannaCry and NotPetya hit the scene in 2017, and this year has been no different. For the past five years, there has been cryptomining , where bad actors infect systems with malware that leverages the CPUs to mine for coins, essentially crowdsourcing stolen CPU power.

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Vulnerability Recap 6/10/24 – RCE Attacks in Major Platforms

eSecurity Planet

The problem: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) discovered an actively exploited OS command injection vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server ( CVE-2017-3506 ). The 8220 Gang, a China-based cryptojacking group, leveraged this vulnerability to take over unpatched servers for crypto-mining operations.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Scanning the Internet

ForAllSecure

I mean, when you think about all the IoT products, your car, your phone, well, we're burning up more addresses today than we thought we'd be possible back in the early 1980s When the Advanced Research Projects Agency networks or ARPAnet first deployed ipv4, so we're adopting a new schema ratified in July of 2017.

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Cases I Will Be Covering Today During Litigation Support Day: eDiscovery Case Law

eDiscovery Daily

2588 EDA 2017 (Pa. eDiscovery Daily is made available by CloudNine solely for educational purposes to provide general information about general eDiscovery principles and not to provide specific legal advice applicable to any particular circumstance. Bonus Case! In Marshall v. Brown’s IA, LLC, No.

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Jason R. Baron of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP: eDiscovery Trends 2018

eDiscovery Daily

The environment that I see is one which is probably good for lawyers, because at least at firms like mine, companies are coming to us saying they really haven’t grappled with the disposition of legacy data. Where are mining operations? Who’s doing the mining? You see a lot of interest across industries.