Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. According to the FAQ posted on its site , “ Norton Crypto ” will mine Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency while the customer’s computer is idle. ”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Electronics retail giant MediaMarkt was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted store operations in the Netherlands and Germany. Media Markt is a German multinational chain of stores selling consumer electronics with over 1000 stores in Europe. Update November 8, 2021. ” reported the local outlet RTLNieuws.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. But don’t be fooled by that number – it comes from 106 incidents, which is roughly average for the year. discloses ransomware incident (unknown). discloses ransomware incident (unknown).

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With one month left in 2021, the annual total running total of compromised records is to just shy of 5 billion. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2021 – 223.6 In November, we discovered 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 223,615,390 breached records. Financial information.

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IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. discloses security incident (unknown) St. Data breaches. In other news… Buying breached data: When is it ethical? Find out more.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

Tue, 01/26/2021 - 09:17. 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. The Future of Payments Security. Source: Verizon DBIR 2020.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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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