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Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:35:37 +0000
Facebook is reportedly switching out click identifiers for encryption, making it harder (if not impossible) to strip tracking from the URL.
The post Facebook gets round tracking privacy measure by encrypting links appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 05:55:00 -0700
Cryptocurrency has always been the payment method of choice for bad guys. Get hit with an enterprise ransomware attack and plan to pay? You’ll need crypto. The key reason cyberthieves love cryptocurrency so much is that it is far harder to trace payments.
That is why a move being attempted by the European Union has so much potential. The EU — in a move that will likely be mimicked by many other regional regulatory forces, including in the United States — is putting in place tracking requirements for all cryptocurrency.
If it is successful, and the EU has an excellent track record on precisely these kinds of changes, cryptocurrency may quickly fade as the thief’s payment of choice.
Credit to Author: Christopher Budd| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:00:25 +0000
Today, we released new Sophos research into a series of Microsoft SQL Server attacks. We also released a new piece outlining our vision of how security operations can and will be enhanced and improved by machine learning and artificial intelligence: “Building the AI-Driven SOC: Sophos’ 5-Year Perspective.” Finally, today we announced the launch of Sophos […]
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Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:00:21 +0000
Looking ahead to the Security Operation Center of the future, forged from developments in XDR, AI innovation, and programmable security posture and powered by the AI-UX value circuit
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Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:00:14 +0000
How do the pieces of Sophos X-Ops fit together? A combined effort makes tidy work of a threat actor’s big play
Read MoreCredit to Author: Christopher Budd| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:00:05 +0000
What exactly is Sophos X-Ops? Sophos X-Ops is a new, cross-operational (X-Ops) team linking SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and Sophos AI, three established teams of cybersecurity experts at Sophos, to help organizations better defend against constantly changing and increasingly complex cyberattacks. The unit leverages the predictive, real-time, real-world, and deeply researched threat intelligence from each distinct […]
Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:12:11 +0000
Amazon’s Ring is in hot water after revealing in a letter to Senator Ed Markey that it shared data without permission 11 times this year.
The post Ring shares data with police without consent (but it’s in good faith), says Amazon appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Joelson Soares| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000
We discovered the use of two Python penetration-testing tools, Impacket and Responder, that malicious actors used to compromise systems and exfiltrate data. We share our key findings in this report.
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