Sat.Jan 14, 2023 - Fri.Jan 20, 2023

article thumbnail

The FBI Identified a Tor User

Schneier on Security

No details , though: According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May 14, 2019. In virtue of being a dark web site—­that is, one hosted on the Tor anonymity network—­it should have been difficult for the site owner’s or a third party to determine the real IP address of any of the site’s visitors.

Military 142
article thumbnail

New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts

Krebs on Security

T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In a filing with federal regulators, T-Mobile said an investigation determined that someone abused its systems to harvest subscriber data tied to approximately 37 million current customer accounts. Image: customink.com In a filing today with the U.S.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Profit at Any Cost: Why Ransomware Gangs Such as LockBit Lie

Data Breach Today

And They’ll Continue to Do So Until Authorities Better Disrupt Them - But How? Pity the overworked ransomware gang - say, LockBit - that just "discovered" one of its affiliates hit Britain's postal service. But until Western governments find a way to truly disrupt the ransomware business model, operators remain free to keep spouting half-truths and lies at victims' expense.

article thumbnail

GUEST ESSAY: How I started a company to supply democratized pentests to immunize websites

The Last Watchdog

My name is Eden Zaraf. I’ve been driven by my passion for technology for as long as I can remember. Somewhere around the age of 13, I learned to code. I developed scripts, websites and got involved in security which led me to penetration testing. Related: Leveraging employees as detectors. Penetration Testing is a never-ending challenge. Five years ago, my friend Sahar Avitan began developing an automatic penetration testing tool for our own use.

Phishing 214
article thumbnail

Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

article thumbnail

NEW TECH: DigiCert unveils ‘Trust Lifecyle Manager’ to centralize control of digital certificates

The Last Watchdog

To get network protection where it needs to be, legacy cybersecurity vendors have begun reconstituting traditional security toolsets. The overarching goal is to try to derive a superset of very dynamic, much more tightly integrated security platforms that we’ll very much need, going forward. Related: The rise of security platforms. This development has gained quite a bit of steam over the past couple of years with established vendors of vulnerability management (VM,) endpoint detection and respo

More Trending

article thumbnail

Ransomware Picture: Volume of Known Attacks Remains Constant

Data Breach Today

Massive Profit Potential and Robust Initial Access Market Keep Fueling Ecosystem Ransomware syndicates continue to earn massive profits for criminals while disrupting victims' operations worldwide. Security researchers tracking known victims say their numbers remain unchanged from 2021 to 2022, as attackers tap abundant cybercrime services to help amass fresh victims.

article thumbnail

ChatGPT Could Create Polymorphic Malware Wave, Researchers Warn

Dark Reading

The powerful AI bot can produce malware without malicious code, making it tough to mitigate.

IT 143
article thumbnail

The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism

WIRED Threat Level

Research shows that relatively few people exist in perfectly sealed-off media bubbles—but they’re still having an outsize impact on US politics.

Security 142
article thumbnail

ChatGPT’s Dark Side: An Endless Supply of Polymorphic Malware

eSecurity Planet

CyberArk researchers are warning that OpenAI’s popular new AI tool ChatGPT can be used to create polymorphic malware. “[ChatGPT]’s impressive features offer fast and intuitive code examples, which are incredibly beneficial for anyone in the software business,” CyberArk researchers Eran Shimony and Omer Tsarfati wrote this week in a blog post that was itself apparently written by AI. “However, we find that its ability to write sophisticated malware that holds no mali

article thumbnail

Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

article thumbnail

T-Mobile Says Hackers Stole Data of 37 Million Customers

Data Breach Today

Unauthorized Party Obtained Access to Company API for Approximately 6 Weeks T-Mobile disclosed Thursday that hackers had access for approximately 6 weeks to an application programming interface that exposed customer data including names, dates of birth and email addresses. No payment information or passwords were part of the breach, the company said.

Passwords 246
article thumbnail

Pwned or Bot

Troy Hunt

It's fascinating to see how creative people can get with breached data. Of course there's all the nasty stuff (phishing, identity theft, spam), but there are also some amazingly positive uses for data illegally taken from someone else's system. When I first built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), my mantra was to "do good things after bad things happen" And arguably, it has, largely by enabling individuals and organisations to learn of their own personal exposure in breaches.

article thumbnail

Blank-Image Attacks Impersonate DocuSign

KnowBe4

An unusual phishing technique has surfaced this week. Avanan, a Check Point Software company, released a blog Thursday morning detailing a new attack in which hackers hide malicious content inside a blank image within an HTML attachment in phishing emails claiming to be from DocuSign.

Phishing 136
article thumbnail

Cybersecurity in the Metaverse Will Require New Approaches

eSecurity Planet

Despite challenges faced by Meta and others, there remains optimism for the metaverse. The PwC 2022 U.S. Business and Consumer Metaverse Survey highlights this. The survey, which included over 5,000 consumers and 1,000 U.S. business leaders, shows that half of consumers consider the metaverse to be exciting, and 66% of executives say their companies are actively engaged with it.

article thumbnail

15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

article thumbnail

Ransomware Attack Affects 1,000 Vessels Worldwide

Data Breach Today

Norway's DNV Shuts Down IT Servers, Investigates Attack A maker of software used to manage shipping vessel operations says it has shut down its servers after detecting a ransomware attack. Norwegian classification society DNV, maker of ShipManager software, says onboard software functionally continues to operate.

article thumbnail

Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers

WIRED Threat Level

Animal rights activists have captured the first hidden-camera video from inside a carbon dioxide “stunning chamber” in a US meatpacking plant.

Privacy 136
article thumbnail

Real-World Steganography

Schneier on Security

From an article about Zheng Xiaoqing, an American convicted of spying for China: According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his employers in the binary code of a digital photograph of a sunset, which Mr Zheng then mailed to himself.

136
136
article thumbnail

PayPal Breach Exposed PII of Nearly 35K Accounts

Dark Reading

The credential-stuffing attack, likely fueled by password reuse, yielded personal identifiable information that can be used to verify the authenticity of previously stolen data.

Passwords 135
article thumbnail

The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future. Download today to learn more!

article thumbnail

Hostile Takeover: Kraken Hacks Rival Darknet Market Solaris

Data Breach Today

Since Hydra Market Got Shuttered by Police, Russian Rivals Battle for Market Share Competition between rival Russian-language darknet markets remains fierce since police shuttered Hydra last year. The latest to fall dark is Solaris, which controlled an estimated 25% of the darknet drug trade. It got hacked by newcomer rival Kraken. But that wasn't Solaris' only problem.

Marketing 219
article thumbnail

CIPL Publishes Discussion Paper on Digital Assets and Privacy

Hunton Privacy

On January 20, 2023, The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth published “Digital Assets and Privacy,” a discussion paper compiling insights from workshops with CIPL member companies that explored the intersection of privacy and digital assets, with a particular focus on blockchain technology. The paper includes recommendations for developing coherent, tech-friendly, future-focused, and pragmatic regulations and policies.

Paper 134
article thumbnail

Is Your Organization’s Password Complexity Requirement Strong Enough? Probably Not

KnowBe4

Is your organization’s password complexity strong enough?

Passwords 126
article thumbnail

Attackers Crafted Custom Malware for Fortinet Zero-Day

Dark Reading

The "BoldMove" backdoor demonstrates a high level of knowledge of FortiOS, according to Mandiant researchers, who said the attacker appears to be based out of China.

131
131
article thumbnail

Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

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.

article thumbnail

Rapid7 CEO Corey Thomas on Targeting Phishing Infrastructure

Data Breach Today

Thomas Shares How the IntSights Acquisition Made Threat Intelligence Actionable The IntSights deal has allowed Rapid7 to offer more visibility into the threat landscape and target the phishing infrastructure used by hackers. The deal has helped Rapid7 determine the spoofed domains and the employees and social media accounts that adversaries have targeted, CEO Corey Thomas says.

Phishing 217
article thumbnail

Russian Ransomware Gang Attack Destabilizes UK Royal Mail

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: Joe Biden’s classified-documents scandal, the end of security support for Windows 7, and more.

article thumbnail

[Eye Popper] Ransomware Victims Refused To Pay Last Year

KnowBe4

Finally some good news from the ransomware front! Despite bad actors launching a number of ransomware campaigns throughout 2022, organizations refused to submit and paid criminals an estimated $456.8 million - 40% less than the astounding total of $765 million in ransom payments from 2020 and 2021.

article thumbnail

Unpatched Zoho MangeEngine Products Under Active Cyberattack

Dark Reading

The latest critical bug is exploitable in dozens of ManageEngine products and exposes systems to catastrophic risks, researchers warn.

Risk 128
article thumbnail

The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

article thumbnail

Meta Sues Scraping-for-Hire Provider, Closes 60K Accounts

Data Breach Today

Meta Says Firm Used Fake Accounts to Gather Information on 600K Facebook Users Meta says it is taking legal action against scraping-for-hire service provider Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts to copy data accessible about users when logged into Facebook, Instagram and other websites. The social media firms says it closed 60,000 fake accounts.

Access 189
article thumbnail

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Schneier on Security

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Capricon , a four-day science fiction convention in Chicago. My talk is on “The Coming AI Hackers” and will be held Friday, February 3 at 1:00 PM. The list is maintained on this page.

115
115
article thumbnail

Trends for Collaboration Data Ediscovery in 2023

Hanzo Learning Center

It’s that time of year again when people are pulling out their crystal balls and doing their best to predict the future of what we’ll see in the ediscovery industry in 2023. I mean who doesn’t want to know what to look out for down the road? So in that spirit, here are some things Hanzo has been paying attention to as we move into a new year.

113
113