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Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer

Krebs on Security

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. which was renamed to NortonLifeLock in 2019 (LifeLock is now included in the Norton 360 service). “The key to the wallet is encrypted and stored securely in the cloud. .

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. Figure 1: Web application breaches in the Retail industry. Fraud and scams move to the web. Source: Verizon DBIR 2020. Stolen credentials.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016.

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Members of GozNym gang sentenced for stealing $100 Million

Security Affairs

The crooks infected more than 4,000 victim computers globally with GozNym banking Trojan between 2015 and 2016, most of the victims were in the United States and Europe. The GozNym has been seen targeting banking institutions, credit unions, and retail banks. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

IT Governance

Maze/Egregor ransomware cartel estimated to have made $75 million Brokerage firm agrees to $3 million deal for New York cyber security rule violations National Australia Bank repays customers $687k for 2019 data breach. discloses security incident (unknown) St. Data breaches. In other news… Buying breached data: When is it ethical?

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TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies

Security Affairs

The domain validtree.com is registered through namecheap.com on 2017-12-07T15:55:27Z but recently renewed on 2019-10-16T05:35:18Z. TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Spotlight Podcast: Security Automation is (and isn’t) the Future of Infosec

The Security Ledger

In this Spotlight Podcast, we speak with David Brumley, the Chief Executive Officer at the security firm ForAllSecure * and a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. That same L.A.