Data Breach Today
JUNE 21, 2022
Mastercard's Nick Coleman Discusses 'Threatcasting' and Real-Time Payments Ten years from now, "the ability to transact on a global basis will continue," says Nick Coleman, CSO, real-time payments at MasterCard, who adds, "Maybe my car will buy stuff for me." Coleman discusses the future of digital payments and the technologies that can help secure that future.
Dark Reading
JUNE 21, 2022
In the wake of devastating attacks, here are some of the best techniques and policies a company can implement to protect its data.
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KnowBe4
JUNE 21, 2022
The US FBI has warned that scammers on LinkedIn are a “significant threat,” CNBC reports. Sean Ragan, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the San Francisco and Sacramento field offices, told CNBC in an interview that cryptocurrency scams have been particularly widespread recently.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 20, 2022
Check out this handmade sign posted to the front door of a shuttered Jimmy John’s sandwich chain shop in Missouri last week. See if you can tell from the store owner’s message what happened. If you guessed that someone in the Jimmy John’s store might have fallen victim to a Business Email Compromise (BEC) or “CEO fraud” scheme — wherein the scammers impersonate company executives to steal money — you’d be in good company.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 24, 2022
Attacks Tied to Apparent Spinoffs or Subsidiaries Black Basta and Hive Have Surged The Conti ransomware group officially pulled the plug on its operation in May. But experts say the group's activities have continued in the form of numerous already-launched subsidiaries or spinoffs, which appear to include Alphv/BlackCat, AvosLocker, Black Basta and HelloKitty, among others.
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Schneier on Security
JUNE 24, 2022
Earlier this month, I and others wrote a letter to Congress, basically saying that cryptocurrencies are an complete and total disaster, and urging them to regulate the space. Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. In response, Matthew Green has written —not really a rebuttal—but a “a general response to some of the more common spurious objections …people make to public blockchain systems.” In it, he
Krebs on Security
JUNE 22, 2022
Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. While the coordinated action did not name the Russian hackers allegedly behind RSOCKS, KrebsOnSecurity has identified its owner as a 35-year-old Russian man living abroad w
Data Breach Today
JUNE 22, 2022
Belgian and Dutch Police Arrest 9 Suspects Over Theft of 'Millions of Euros' Belgian and Dutch police with the support of Europol dismantled an organized crime gang involved in carrying out phishing, money laundering and other scams. Nine suspects are in detention after stealing several million euros, authorities say.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 23, 2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking steps to crack down on insufficient cyber risk reporting. Related : Making third-party risk audits actionable. Seeking to minimize cybersecurity threat effects, the SEC has proposed several amendments requiring organizations to report on cyber risk in a “fast, comparable, and decision-useful manner.”.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 22, 2022
Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting government resources and critical infrastructure in Lithuania after the ban of Russian railway goods. Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting Lithuanian government resources and critical infrastructure – the recent ban on Russian railway goods has caused a new spike of hacktivist activity on the Dark Web. Today the group has announced multiple targets for coordinated DDoS attacks – the resources to be attacked are distributed between so-called “units” who are based on members and
Jamf
JUNE 23, 2022
A new nonprofit organization birthed from the thriving Slack community is working to enhance access and development for IT professionals working with Apple devices.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 20, 2022
Sirens Ring in Jerusalem, Eilat; System Used to Warn Citizens About Missile Attacks Iranian hackers may be responsible for rocket sirens sounding for almost an hour in two Israeli cities on Sunday night. This comes amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Jerusalem and discovery of a phishing campaign in Israel that cybersecurity firm Check Point has attributed to Iran.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 20, 2022
Specialization continues to advance apace in the cybercriminal ecosystem. Related: How cybercriminals leverage digital transformation. Initial access brokers, or IABs , are the latest specialists on the scene. IABs flashed to prominence on the heels of gaping vulnerabilities getting discovered and widely exploited in Windows servers deployed globally in enterprise networks.
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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?
Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2022
Experts identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. Resecurity, Inc. (USA) has identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. The identified resources in one of the malicious campaigns impersonate various services appearing to be legitimately created on the “azurefd.net” domain – This allows the bad actors to trick users and spread phishing content
Data Protection Report
JUNE 22, 2022
UK GDPR Reform: government publishes response to consultation – likely to form basis of forthcoming UK Data Reform Bill. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has finally published the UK government’s long-awaited response to the consultation on the future of the UK data protection regime. The government set out very high level principles for a Data Reform Bill in the Queen’s Speech in May.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2022
Ping Ventures Will Support Startups Building the Next Generation of Identity Tools Ping Identity is making a $50 million bet it can integrate cutting-edge technology into its own stack through a new in-house corporate venture fund to support identity and access management technology startups. "We want to have a nice overall corporate strategy portfolio," says Ping's Anton Papp.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 21, 2022
It’s stunning that the ransomware plague persists. Related: ‘SASE’ blends connectivity and security. Verizon’s Data Breach Incident Report shows a 13 percent spike in 2021, a jump greater than the past years combined; Sophos’ State of Ransomware survey shows victims routinely paying $1 million ransoms. In response, Cato Networks today introduced network-based ransomware protection for the Cato SASE Cloud.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 20, 2022
The Attorney General has issued an arrest warrant for a hacker who targeted a NATO think tank in Germany for the Russia-linked APT28. The Attorney General has issued an arrest warrant for the Russian hacker Nikolaj Kozachek (aka “blabla1234565” and “kazak”) who is accused to have carried out a cyber espionage attack against the NATO think tank Joint Air Power Competence Center in Germany.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 22, 2022
Interesting : What makes Symbiote different from other Linux malware that we usually come across, is that it needs to infect other running processes to inflict damage on infected machines. Instead of being a standalone executable file that is run to infect a machine, it is a shared object (SO) library that is loaded into all running processes using LD_PRELOAD (T1574.006), and parasitically infects the machine.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 20, 2022
Cloudflare's Zero Trust Platform Offers More Robust Threat Intel, Network Discovery Cloudflare sees opportunity in the growth of zero trust and is integrating recent email and cloud security acquisitions with native data security and network discovery capabilities. "I like the fact that we can grow in both directions," says company CEO Matthew Prince.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 22, 2022
During the first two decades of this century, virtual private networks —VPNs—served as a cornerstone of network security. Related: Deploying human sensors. VPNs encrypt data streams and protect endpoints from unauthorized access, essentially by requiring all network communications to flow over a secured pipe. This worked extremely well for users accessing network resources remotely via their company-issued laptops and immobile home computers.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2022
Researchers linked a new APT group, tracked as ToddyCat, to a series of attacks targeting entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. Researchers from Kaspersky have linked a new APT group, tracked as ToddyCat, to a series of attacks aimed at high-profile entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. The threat actors initially launched a cyber espionage campaign against entities in Taiwan and Vietnam, the APT was observed targeting Microsoft Exchange servers with a zer
Dark Reading
JUNE 21, 2022
AI can help companies more effectively identify and respond to threats, as well as harden applications.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 20, 2022
4.2 Million Customers' Private Details Sold by 'Malicious' Insider for 26 Months Canada's Desjardins Group has reached an out-of-court settlement to resolve a data breach class action lawsuit. The breach, which the credit union group first disclosed in 2019, traced to a "malicious" insider who for 26 months had been selling personal details for 4.2 million active customers.
IT Governance
JUNE 21, 2022
Data governance and regulatory compliance go hand in hand. Organisations need robust governance practices if they are to stay on top of their legal requirements, while those obligations are designed to help them operate more effectively. Although ‘data governance’ can also refer to the wider political associations of data governance, this blog focuses on the term in an information management context.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 18, 2022
Malibot is a new Android malware targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy. F5 Labs researchers spotted a new strain of Android malware, named Malibot, that is targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy. The experts documented attacks against multiple banks, including UniCredit, Santander, CaixaBank, and CartaBCC.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 21, 2022
Two bills attempting to reduce the power of Internet monopolies are currently being debated in Congress: S. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act ; and S. 2710, the Open App Markets Act. Reducing the power to tech monopolies would do more to “fix” the Internet than any other single action, and I am generally in favor of them both.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 24, 2022
Company Says Layoffs Are the Result of Customer Acquisition Strategy Changes Aura has laid off 70 employees as a result of customer acquisition strategy changes just a year after raising $350 million. The layoffs came about as a result of an agreement inked with MetLife earlier this year that made it Aura's exclusive go-to-market partner for the employee benefits channel.
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