Dark Reading

APRIL 14, 2020

The pandemic has driven more of our personal and work lives online - and for the bad guys, business is booming. Here's how you can protect yourself.

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APRIL 17, 2020

Prices for Kits Soar; Ads Proliferate on Dark Net Markets Ads for phishing kits doubled last year on underground forums and dark net markets, with prices skyrocketing over 149 percent - an apparent indicator of strong demand, according to security firm Group-IB.

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Dark Reading

APRIL 15, 2020

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Much of the world is still behind on the basics.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 16, 2020

Hot on the heels of onboarding the USA government to Have I Been Pwned last month , I'm very happy to welcome another national government - Iceland! As of today, Iceland's National Computer Security Incident Response Team ( CERT-IS ), now has access to the full gamut of their gov domains for both on-demand querying and ongoing monitoring. As with the USA and Iceland, I expect to continue onboarding additional governments over the course of 2020 and expanding their access to meaningful data about

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 14, 2020

Study Shows Fingerprints Made With 3D Printer Can Fool Sensors, But Process Is Difficult Fake fingerprints created with a 3D printer can bypass biometric scanners to unlock smartphones, laptops and other devices under certain circumstances, according to a study from a Cisco Talos.

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APRIL 17, 2020

Suspected Arson Attacks on Transmitter Masts Disrupt Emergency Services As countries pursue national 5G rollouts, an unwanted security challenge has intensified: Some extremists have been vandalizing or even firebombing transmitter masts, driven by conspiracy theories suggesting not only that 5G poses a public health risk, but that it also helps cause COVID-19.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

Google says that the Gmail malware scanners have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures in just one week. Google announced that its anti-malware solutions implemented to defend its Gmail users have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures within the last seven days. The IT giant also announced to have blocked more than 240 million spam messages related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2020

The drastic changes we’re experiencing in our personal and professional lives would have been impossible to imagine just a year ago when we shared this blog about CEOs becoming more actively involved in data security conversations in the boardroom. Now, our new reality demands these questions are asked and answered by C-suite executives who must be certain about data security in uncertain times.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 14, 2020

Hank Thomas of Strategic Cyber Ventures on How the Industry Is Poised to Emerge From Crisis Before the COVID-19 pandemic, venture capitalist Hank Thomas helped launch SCVX, a cybersecurity-focused special purpose acquisition company. Post-pandemic, Thomas sees a bright future in filling what he sees as the market need for a scalable, integrated platform.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 17, 2020

It has produced several reports outlining what's wrong and what needs to be fixed. It's not fixing them : GAO looked at three DoD-designed initiatives to see whether the Pentagon is following through on its own goals. In a majority of cases, DoD has not completed the cybersecurity training and awareness tasks it set out to. The status of various efforts is simply unknown because no one has tracked their progress.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2020

Dutch authorities have taken down 15 DDoS-for-hire services in a week, this is another success of law enforcement in the fight against cybercrime. An operation conducted by Dutch authorities last week has shut down 15 DDoS-for-hire services (aka DDoS booters or DDoS stressor), states a press release published by Dutch police. The operation was conducted with the support of Europol, Interpol, and the FBI along with web hosting providers and domain registrars.

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Threatpost

APRIL 13, 2020

The Grandoreiro banking malware uses remote overlay and a fake Chrome browser plugin to steal from banking customers.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2020

We’ve come to rely on our smartphones to live out our digital lives, both professionally and personally. When it comes to securing mobile computing devices, the big challenge businesses have long grappled with is how to protect company assets while at the same time respecting an individual’s privacy. Reacting to the BYOD craze , mobile security frameworks have veered from one partially effective approach to the next over the past decade.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

Data Breach Today

APRIL 11, 2020

Ukrainian Man Behind the Actual Hacking Remains at Large The U.S. SEC has settled charges against two traders who were accused of profiting from the hacking of an EDGAR server in 2016. The Ukrainian man who allegedly hacked the system by bypassing its authentication control remains at large.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2020

The Coronavirus has prompted thousands of information security professionals to volunteer their skills in upstart collaborative efforts aimed at frustrating cybercriminals who are seeking to exploit the crisis for financial gain. Whether it’s helping hospitals avoid becoming the next ransomware victim or kneecapping new COVID-19-themed scam websites, these nascent partnerships may well end up saving lives.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

Hackers are again attacking Portuguese banking organizations via Android Trojan-Banker. The threat is not new, hackers are again attacking clients of Portuguese banking organizations via a specially crafted Android Trojan-Banker from phishing campaigns launched from Brazil. The last occurrence this line was recorded on March 13rd, 2020, where a similar Trojan-Banker was disseminated targeting other clients of different banking organizations.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

Ransomware continues to endure as a highly lucrative criminal enterprise. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 million from U.S. organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. That’s the precise figure recently disclosed by the FBI — the true damage is almost certainly a lot steeper, given only a portion of cyber crimes ever get reported to law enforcement.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 13, 2020

Officials Say Usernames and Passwords Stolen San Francisco International Airport has disclosed that hackers stole usernames and passwords from two of its websites in March.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2020

Security experts are poring over thousands of new Coronavirus-themed domain names registered each day, but this often manual effort struggles to keep pace with the flood of domains invoking the virus to promote malware and phishing sites, as well as non-existent healthcare products and charities. As a result, domain name registrars are under increasing pressure to do more to combat scams and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

Consumer reports received since January 2020 revealed that that approximately $12 million were lost due to Coronavirus-related scams, FTC says. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission revealed that Coronavirus-related scams reported by consumers since January 2020 caused approximately $12 million losses. FTC received 16,778 reports of frauds, roughly 46.3% of fraud complaints also reporting a loss between January 1, 2020 – April 12, 2020 – “FTC has received more than 16K Coronavirus-

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 14, 2020

Five years ago, the Department of Defense set dozens of security hygiene goals. A new report finds that it has abandoned or lost track of most of them.

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Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

Data Breach Today

APRIL 15, 2020

Video-Sharing Service Does Not Always Use TLS/SSL Encryption TikTok, a video-sharing service, has been delivering video and other media without TLS/SSL encryption, which means it may be possible for someone to tamper with content, researchers say. That could be especially damaging in the current pandemic environment, where misinformation and confusion abounds.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2020

Microsoft today released updates to fix 113 security vulnerabilities in its various Windows operating systems and related software. Those include at least three flaws that are actively being exploited, as well as two others which were publicly detailed prior to today, potentially giving attackers a head start in figuring out how to exploit the bugs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2020

Zoom accounts are flooding the dark web, over 500 hundred thousand Zoom accounts are being sold on hacker forums. Over 500 hundred thousand Zoom accounts are available for sale on the dark web and hacker forums. Sellers are advertising them for.0020 cents each, in some cases they are offered for free. The huge trove of account credentials was not stolen by Zoom, instead, it appears the result of credential stuffing attacks that leverage records from third-party data breaches.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 12, 2020

Online tracking can often feel downright invasive. From using VPNs to clearing browser histories, we've got your back.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 15, 2020

More Advanced Cybercrime Services Help Hackers Boost Illicit Earnings Many criminals are continuing to tap cybercrime platforms and services to make it easier to earn an illicit paycheck, sometimes by combining tools, such as Emotet, Ryuk and TrickBot. This "loader-ransomware-banker trifecta has wreaked havoc" in recent years, says security firm Intel 471.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 13, 2020

Exclusive: draft plans for contact-tracing app said device IDs could be used to identify users Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A draft government memo explaining how the NHS contact-tracing app could stem the spread of the coronavirus said ministers might be given the ability to order “de-anonymisation” to identify people from their smartphones, the Guardian can reveal.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

Linksys has reset passwords for all its customers’ after learning on ongoing DNS hijacking attacks aimed at delivering malware. Crooks continue to launch Coronavirus-themed attacks , in the last weeks, experts observed hackers hijacking D-Link and Linksys routers to redirect users to COVID19-themed sites spreading malware. Hackers compromise D-Link and Linksys routers and change DNS settings to redirect users to bogus sites proposing a fake COVID-19 information app from the World Health O

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