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Credit to Author: Hugh Aver| Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:15:41 +0000
Typosquatting, YouTube links, malicious torrents, and legitimate tools as alternative methods for spreading malware.
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“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” Scott McNealy said of online privacy back in 1999, a view the former CEO of the now-defunct Sun Microsystems reiterated in 2015. Despite the hue and cry his initial remarks caused, he’s been proven largely correct.
Cookies, beacons, digital signatures, trackers, and other technologies on websites and in apps let advertisers, businesses, governments, and even criminals build a profile about what you do, who you know, and who you are at very intimate levels of detail. Remember that 2012 story about how Target could tell a teenager was pregnant before her parents knew, based on her online activities? That is the norm today. Google and Facebook are the most notorious commercial internet spies, and among the most pervasive, but they are hardly alone.
Credit to Author: Digvijay Mane| Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:34:49 +0000
SOVA is an Android banking Trojan with significant capabilities like credential theft, capturing keystrokes, taking screenshots, etc.,…
The post Beware: SOVA Android Banking Trojan emerges more powerful with new capabilities appeared first on Quick Heal Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:20:53 +0000
A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site, and for companies that rely on it to hire and screen prospective employees. The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups.
Read MoreCategories: News Tags: hire Tags: hiring Tags: rehire Tags: insider threat Tags: ex-employee Tags: logins Tags: network Tags: FBI Failing to keep a tight reign on ex-employees’ credentials can lead to all manner of chaos. |
The post Admin from hell facing 10 years for sabotaging ex-employer’s network appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCategories: News Tags: malware Tags: ZINC Tags: microsoft Tags: infection Tags: C&C Tags: open source Tags: job offer Tags: fake Tags: LinkedIn A North Korean ZINC group is accused of creating compromised versions of KiTTY, PuTTY, TightVNC, and other popular open-source software apps |
The post Bogus job offers hide trojanised open-source software appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCategories: News The SEC fined the celebrity $1.26 million for touting a crypto security without telling followers what she was paid to promote it. |
The post Kim Kardashian gets huge fine for crypto ad appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCategories: News Tags: compromise Tags: ransomware Tags: leak Tags: extortion Tags: LAUSD Data stolen from Los Angeles Unified School District has been leaked online, after staff refused to pay the ransom related to a ransomware attack. |
The post Ransomware-affected school district refuses to pay, gets stolen data released appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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