Data Breach Today
JANUARY 2, 2023
Paying for Promises That Can't Be Audited Paints a Repeat-Attack Target on Victims Many ransomware-wielding attackers are expert at preying on their victims' compulsion to clean up the mess. Witness victims' continuing willingness to pay a ransom - separate to a decryptor - in return from a promise from extortionists that they will delete stolen data.
The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 3, 2023
For the average user, the Internet is an increasingly dangerous place to navigate. Related: Third-party snooping is widespread. Consider that any given website experiences approximately 94 malicious attacks a day , and that an estimated 12.8 million websites are infected with malware. So, in response to these numbers, users are seeking ways to implement a more secure approach to web browsing.
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Dark Reading
JANUARY 4, 2023
Job applicants could face a raft of follow-on attacks after cyber intruders accessed their data in an opportunistic attack.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 5, 2023
Continuous Integration Software Development Platform Suspects 2-Week Intrusion CircleCI, which is used by over 1 million developers to build, test and deploy software, has issued a brief security alert warning all customers to immediately "rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI" as it continues to probe a suspected two-week intrusion.
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WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 4, 2023
When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JANUARY 4, 2023
What will 2023 bring in the realms of cybersecurity and privacy? divya. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 05:52. As geopolitical tensions persist and economic instability looms, organizations should get ready for a rise in cyber risks. What will 2023 bring in the realms of cybersecurity and privacy? Here are six predictions I think you should consider for the year ahead.
IBM Big Data Hub
JANUARY 5, 2023
Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues. Just one of these problems can prove costly to an organization.
IT Governance
JANUARY 3, 2023
December can be the best or worst time to suffer a data breach. On the one hand, people have started to wind down to the end of the year, all attention is on holidays and a data breach is more likely to fall under the data. But for the very same reasons, a December data breach can be the worst possible scenario. Your team suddenly has a mountain of work on its hands as it mitigate the damage.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 2, 2023
Google will pay $29.5 million to settle two different lawsuits in the US over its deceptive location tracking practices. Google decided to pay $29.5 million to settle two different lawsuits brought by the states of Indiana and Washington, D.C., over its deceptive location tracking practices. The IT giant will pay $9.5 million to D.C. and $20 million to Indiana after the states filed two lawsuits against the company charging it with having tracked users’ locations without their express cons
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 6, 2023
Database Will Provide Intelligence of Use to Online Criminals, Expert Warns Expect the recently leaked database containing over 200 million Twitter records to be an ongoing resource for hackers, fraudsters and other criminals operating online, even though 98% of the email addresses it contains have appeared in prior breaches, experts warn.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 6, 2023
The January 6 Committee’s 841-page report will go down as one of the most important documents in US history. These key details stand out.
The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 3, 2023
At the start of 2023, consumers remain out in the cold when it comes to online protection. Related: Leveraging employees as human sensors. Malicious online actors grow ever more sophisticated, making cybersecurity as big a concern for everyday consumers as it ever has been. These days, ordinary people are facing increasing —and more complex—threats than ever before.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 6, 2023
Antivirus firm Bitdefender released a decryptor for the MegaCortex ransomware allowing its victims to restore their data for free. Antivirus firm Bitdefender released a decryptor for the MegaCortex ransomware , which can allow victims of the group to restore their data for free. The MegaCortex ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in May 2019 when it was spotted by security experts at Sophos.
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 4, 2023
63GB Database of Names, Email Addresses Posted to Hacker Forum for All to Download A member of a criminal data breach forum that tried to sell the email addresses of 400 million Twitter users to CEO Elon Musk last month has now posted the stolen data for free for anyone to download. The 63 GB of data includes names, handles, creation dates, follower counts and email addresses.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 2, 2023
This type of devastating scheme ensnares victims and takes them for all they’re worth—and the threat is only growing.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 3, 2023
A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but it’s not obviously wrong. We have long known from Shor’s algorithm that factoring with a quantum computer is easy. But it takes a big quantum computer, on the orders of millions of qbits, to factor anything resembling the key sizes we use today.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 6, 2023
Microsoft warns of different ransomware families (KeRanger, FileCoder, MacRansom, and EvilQuest) targeting Apple macOS systems. Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence team warns of four different ransomware families ( KeRanger , FileCoder , MacRansom , and EvilQuest ) that impact Apple macOS systems. The initial vector in attacks involving Mac ransomware typically relies on user-assisted methods, such as downloading and running fake or weaponized applications.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 5, 2023
Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce, Porsche Software Flaws Exposed Data, Vehicle Controls Software vulnerabilities installed by luxury car manufacturers including Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce and Porsche that could allow remote attackers to control vehicles and steal owners' personal details have been fixed. Cybersecurity researchers uncovered the vulnerabilities while vacationing.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 6, 2023
The exposure of hundreds of millions of email addresses puts pseudonymous users of the social network at risk.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 5, 2023
A data dump of Twitter user details on an underground forum appears to stem from an API endpoint compromise and large-scale data scraping.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 6, 2023
The Saint Gheorghe Recovery Hospital in Romania suffered a ransomware attack in December that is still impacting medical activity. The Saint Gheorghe Recovery Hospital in Botoşani, in northeastern Romania, was hit by a ransomware attack in December that is still impacting medical operations. The hospital is not able to report the services performed in December 2022 and for this reason, it cannot receive payment for the medical services provided.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 4, 2023
Social Media Company Fined for GDPR Violation Related to Ad Personalization The Irish Data Protection Commission has imposed a fine of 390 million euros against Meta Ireland for violating the General Data Protection Regulation related to user data processing. Meta confirmed it will contest the penalty, which targets ad personalization by Facebook and Instagram.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 5, 2023
Amid internet shutdowns in Iran, the encrypted messaging app is introducing proxy connections that can help people get online.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 6, 2023
The role of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity is growing. A new AI model highlights the opportunities and challenges.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 6, 2023
Cloud services provider Rackspace confirmed that the recent data breach was the result of the Play Ransomware gang’s attack. Cloud services provider Rackspace announced this week that the recent data breach was the result of an attack conducted by the Play ransomware group. The ransomware attack took place on December 2, 2022, threat actors exploited a previously unknown security exploit , dubbed OWASSRF by Crowdstrike , to gain initial access to the Rackspace Hosted Microsoft Exchange.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 6, 2023
'Shopping Experience' Engineer at Retailer Accused of 'Malicious Software Edits' Seattle police have charged an online retailer's "shopping experience" software programmer with engineering a fraud scheme based on the movie "Office Space," in which malicious software was used to transfer a fraction of every transaction into an outside account.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 5, 2023
The infamous, FSB-connected Turla group took over other hackers' servers, exploiting their USB drive malware for targeted espionage.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 6, 2023
The Very Hardest Thing. What’s the hardest thing you could do as a tech-driven startup? I’ve been asked that question a few times over the years, and my immediate answer is always the same: Trying to beat Google in search. A few have tried – DuckDuckGo has built itself a sizable niche business, and there’s always Bing, thought it’s stuck at less than ten percent of Google’s market (and Microsoft isn’t exactly a startup.
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