Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

Apple has released its first Rapid Security Response update, but many iPhone users reported problems during the installation of the iOS Security Response. On June 2022, Apple announced that the Rapid Security Response feature would be available starting with iOS 16.4.1, ” “iOS Security Response 16.4.1 (a)

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APRIL 25, 2023

Google Cloud Security and Project Zero researchers found multiple vulnerabilities in the Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). Google Cloud Security and Project Zero researchers, working with Intel experts, discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). ” reads the report released by Google.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

The US Securities and Exchange Commission warns investors of potential investment scams that leverages Hurricane Ida as a bait. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is warning investors of potential investment scams related to Hurricane Ida. ” continues the SEC.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

but that recursive question raised a more general question: what are the differences between cybersecurity educational models? The education process is based upon the information to be shared, by meaning that information is the “starting brick” of education. Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash. Section 4: The ignorance.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

“For example, a stuffer buys a stolen payment card on the black market for $10 and uses it to purchase over $1,100 worth of goods. He is also the author of the book “La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione”. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2024

During his testimony to the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Wray cited the ISIS-K attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow in March as an example of the type of threat the bureau is increasingly concerned about.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

This is presumably intended to help security researchers vetted by the search engine’s staff to secure the exposed devices and files indexed on the service. To see if any of your online accounts were exposed in previous security breaches, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

. “The reservoir’s HMI system was connected directly to the internet, without any security appliance defending it or limiting access to it. This gave the attackers easy access to the system and the ability to modify any value in the system, allowing them, for example, to tamper with the water pressure, change the temperature and more.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. PuTTY.exe Rhysida actors have been observed creating Secure Shell (SSH) PuTTy connections for lateral movement. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With 85% of campaigns targeting victims with phishing emails containing malicious links, another form of a social engineering attack, education and cyber vigiliance remain a high priority. Why should employers educate employees about cyber security? or.con rather than.com, for example.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The group is very sophisticated and used zero-day exploits and complex malware to conduct targeted attacks against governments and organizations in almost every industry, including financial, energy, telecommunications, and education, aerospace. We believe DePriMon is the first example of malware using this technique ever publicly described.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It also concluded that the top three cybersecurity reasons that respondents use AI now are for network intrusion detection and prevention, fraud detection and secure user authentication. AI could also assist sectors that cybercriminals frequently target, such as the education industry. SecurityAffairs – secure email gateways, malware).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

These numbers inform of the possibility that a once uncluttered skyline may soon be teeming with millions of drone aircraft, and questions begin to arise regarding the sanctity of enterprise security, privacy, and potential cybersecurity threats sourcing from the sky. Aerial trespass. Attacks against enterprise-owned drones.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2021

Telegram is a legitimate service and enterprise AV engines and security solutions trust its traffic. “The bot is embedded into the ToxicEye RAT configuration file and compiled into an executable file (an example of a file name we found was ‘paypal checker by saint.exe’). ” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Related: Is the Metaverse truly secure? Quite like how pilots use AR simulation in training, cybersecurity professionals can use AR-enabled training simulations that immerse them in hyper-realistic scenarios, offering hands-on cyber defense training and education. Foremost among these are privacy and security concerns.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Particularly very popular is so-called brand phishing, which occurs when criminals impersonate the official website of a well-known brand of a public or private entity using a domain name, URL, logos and graphics similar to the original website: This is a real threat that can have heavy repercussions on user privacy and device security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. An example of spam email content Clicking the malicious link obviously leads to downloading a weaponized document. Usually, Hancitor is distributed via spam campaigns. Built-in tools were also abused.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2018

Security experts from Palo Alto Networks warn of fake Adobe Flash update hiding a miner that works as legitimate update and really update the software. One such example from December 2017 named free-mod-menu-download-ps3.exe com followed by XMRig traffic on TCP port 14444 like the example used in this blog.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

In March, security experts at Meta found multiple malware posing as ChatGPT or similar AI tools. “Since March alone, our security analysts have found around 10 malware families posing as ChatGPT and similar tools to compromise accounts across the internet. ” reads the Meta’s Q1 2023 Security Reports.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This guide will provide a high level overview of encryption and how it fits into IT through the following topics: How Encryption Works To understand how encryption works, we need to understand how it fits into the broader realm of cryptology, how it processes data, common categories, top algorithms, and how encryption fits into IT security.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Security researcher Salvatore Lombardo shared details about a new instance of Nigerian fraud that he called ‘Beyond the border scam.’ Here is an example of the new Nigerian scam to which I have given the name ” Beyond the border scam ” and which is carried out entirely online and via email.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Sonatype security researcher Sebastián Castro who analyzed xpc.js For example, in certain VM environments it would not perform its malicious activities until after a few minutes had elapsed, to evade analysis by bots and researchers alike. The component exists as a tar.gz (tgz) archive with just one version 6.6.6 and ac-addon.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

“For example, UNC2529 used a unique username, masquerading as an account executive for a small California-based electronics manufacturing company, which Mandiant identified through a simple Internet search.” orgs with 3 malware appeared first on Security Affairs. ” states the analysis published by FireEye.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

One example is a training program led by a veteran who once trained military members to prepare for combat. Arguably, one of the most critical changes needed will be to adapt hiring practices to help candidates without a traditional college education enter into these critical roles. And it works.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts at Flashpoint discovered the availability of the access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo. High-value targets would have higher prices, for example, to inject payment card sniffers, lower ranking sites are usually used for cryptocurrency mining or spam campaign. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

On November 2, 2022, the ICO issued to the UK Department for Education (“ DfE ”) a formal reprimand following an investigation into the sharing of personal data stored on the Learning Records Service (“ LRS ”), a database which provides a record of pupils’ qualifications that the DfE has overall responsibility for.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Even deepfake examples designed to educate the public — like a doctored video of Nixon’s resignation speech — fool observers without meaning to. The larger goal is to use the stolen and synthesized likenesses to secure a position with proximity to valuable company data or personal information. The FBI’s warning.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Email security provider Proofpoint’s 2023 State of the Phish report reflects an ever-escalating financial loss attributed to phishing attacks but also highlights the importance of how appropriate end-user behavior greatly reduces organizational impacts arising from them.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

The botnet tatgeted victims in various industries, including healthcare, aviation, IT & telecommunications and higher education sectors. “For example, the attacker validates that certain COM classes are available – WbemScripting.SWbemLocator, Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 and Windows Script Host Object Model (wshom).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

.” reads the post published by Micros “Russian nation-state actors are increasingly targeting government agencies for intelligence gathering, which jumped from 3% of their targets a year ago to 53% – largely agencies involved in foreign policy, national security or defense.” ” continues the report. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2023

For example, fraudsters could abuse such data to launch sham recruiting agencies. Auditing and logging: regularly checking server access logs Employee training: enhancing knowledge and awareness of data security. This isn’t the first time the Cybernews research team has stumbled upon exposed job seeker data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

And while the country is not that big of a market for the car maker, this discovery is yet another example of how big and well-known brands fail to secure sensitive data. The way the environment file was configured also shows a lack of expertise and understanding of how to develop applications securely.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Our old Twitter account, which was suspended, had pretty much many attacks on government agencies, corporations, educational institutions, ministries, and many, many other things around the world (which we still do, just on a smaller scale). How were you born and approximately how many you are? or even find them childish and boring).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A hacker managed to identify a weak spot in a security camera model. One of the examples relates to the default settings users get when starting to use a new service. Usually, the default settings are not focused on security. As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 14, 2022

“Spear phishing,” represents another example of DeepSea methodology, whereby malicious actors “scrape” personal information (primarily from social media) about their targets to make each phishing attempt more personalized and seem more legitimate. Current solutions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

The security breach impacted a limited number of customers, only 836 individuals. The carrier states that personal financial account information and call records were not affected by the security breach. Below is the list of previous incidents suffered by T-Mobile: In August 2021, a security breach impacted 54 million customers.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

“Recent news reports have revealed an enormous threat to Americans’ safety and national security,” Wyden said in a statement provided to KrebsOnSecurity. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who said he was moved to action after reading this week’s coverage. All of the access Bug is currently offering was allegedly stolen from non-U.S.

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