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.
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
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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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The Last Watchdog
JUNE 20, 2022
The Deep & Dark Web is a mystery to most in the mainstream today: many have heard about it, but few understand just a fraction of what’s going on there. Related: ‘IABs’ spread ransomware. Planning your roadmap, executing your projects, and keeping an eye on the barrage of ransomware headlines, it’s understandable if you and your team are feeling some anxiety.
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
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.
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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.”.
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.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 23, 2022
The spyware has been used to target people in Italy, Kazakhstan, and Syria, researchers at Google and Lookout have found.
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.
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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.
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.
Security Affairs
JUNE 20, 2022
Google Project Zero experts disclosed details of a 5-Year-Old Apple Safari flaw actively exploited in the wild. Researchers from the Google Project Zero team have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Apple Safari that was actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22620 , was fixed for the first time in 2013, but in 2016 experts discovered a way to bypass the fix. “Whenever there’s a new in-the-wild 0-day disclosed, I’m very interested in understanding the ro
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 20, 2022
Microsoft's legacy browser may be dead—but its remnants are not going anywhere, and neither are its lingering security risks.
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.
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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.
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
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 23, 2022
After months of digging into privacy and security issues around these apps, I have some serious concerns.
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.
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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.
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.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 21, 2022
Artificial intelligence use is booming, but it's not the secret weapon you might imagine.
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.
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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
Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2022
Experts discovered a new kind of Windows NTLM relay attack dubbed DFSCoerce that allows taking control over a Windows domain. Researchers warn of a new Windows NTLM relay attack dubbed DFSCoerce that can be exploited by threat actors to take control over a Windows domain. The DFSCoerce attack relies on the Distributed File System (DFS): Namespace Management Protocol (MS-DFSNM) to take full control over a Windows domain.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 18, 2022
Plus: Firefox adds new privacy protections, a big Intel and AMD chip flaw, and more of the week’s top security news.
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