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It Might Be Our Data, But It’s Not Our Breach

August 11, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, alex holden, AT&T, at&t internet, bellsouth.net, Bleeping Computer, data breaches, databreaches.net, Hold Security, Lawrence Abrams, new jersey cybersecurity & communications integration cell, sbcglobal.net, shinyhunters, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, u-verse, white house market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:45:31 +0000

A cybersecurity firm says it has intercepted a large, unique stolen data set containing the names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers and dates of birth on nearly 23 million Americans. The firm’s analysis of the data suggests it corresponds to current and former customers of AT&T. The telecommunications giant stopped short of saying the data wasn’t theirs, but it maintains the records do not appear to have come from its systems and may be tied to a previous data incident at another company.

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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part II: The Office

March 2, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, bentley, Bleeping Computer, conti, emotet, hof, Lawrence Abrams, mango, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Palo Alto Networks, ransomware, reverse, ryuk, stern, The Coming Storm, trickbot

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:49:52 +0000

Earlier this week, a Ukrainian security researcher leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat logs from Conti, one of the more rapacious and ruthless ransomware gangs in operation today. Tuesday’s story examined how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and governments. In Part II of this series we’ll explore what it’s like to work for Conti, as described by the Conti employees themselves.

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A week in security (January 21 – 27)

January 28, 2019 admin 2019 State of Malware report, 2fa, ALPR, Android malware, anpr, Ars Technica, Bleeping Computer, crytekk, crytekk ransomware, Dark Reading, fortnight, GDPR, GoDaddy, Help Net Security, KrebsOnSecurity, Mitsubishi, modlishka, phishing, recap, Security Week, Security world, Techcrunch, The Wall Street Journal, vishing, voicemail phishing, Vulnerability, Week in security, weekly blog roundup, Youtube

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:00:14 +0000

A roundup of last week’s security news from January 21 to 27, including Modlishka, Crytekk, PUPs, and the State of Malware report.

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Tags: 2019 State of Malware report 2fa ALPR android malware anpr Ars Technica Bleeping Computer crytekk crytekk ransomware Dark Reading fortnight gdpr GoDaddy Help Net Security KrebsOnSecurity mitsubishi modlishka phishing recap Security Week TechCrunch The Wall Street Journal vishing voicemail phishing vulnerability week in security weekly blog roundup youtube

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Spoofed addresses and anonymous sending: new Gmail bugs make for easy pickings

November 21, 2018 admin Bleeping Computer, cybercrime, eli gray, gmail bug, phisher, Social engineering, tim cotten, ux flaws

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:53:50 +0000

This isn’t the first time that Gmail, an email service used by billions, is found to have flaws. One security researcher discovered two in less than a week; another revealed a weakness that still leaves Android users open to phishing.

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Tags: Bleeping Computer eli gray gmail bug phisher tim cotten ux flaws

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Bot Roundup: Avalanche, Kronos, NanoCore

February 27, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Bleeping Computer, Catalin Cimpanu, Gennady Kapkanov, Hackforums, kronos, malwaretech, Malwaretechblog, Marcus Hutchins, NanoCore RAT, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Net Seal, Taylor Huddleston, WannaCry hero

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:10:52 +0000

It’s been a busy few weeks in cybercrime news, justifying updates to a couple of cases we’ve been following closely at KrebsOnSecurity. In Ukraine, the alleged ringleader of the Avalanche malware spam botnet was arrested after eluding authorities in the wake of a global cybercrime crackdown there in 2016. Separately, a case that was hailed as a test of whether programmers can be held accountable for how customers use their product turned out poorly for 27-year-old programmer Taylor Huddleston, who was sentenced to almost three years in prison for making and marketing a complex spyware program.

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Critical Security Fixes from Adobe, Microsoft

August 8, 2017 admin Bleeping Computer, Jimmy Graham, Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2017, Other, Qualys, Windows Search vulnerability

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 20:35:17 +0000

Adobe has released updates to fix at least 67 vulnerabilities in its Acrobat, Reader and Flash Player software. Separately, Microsoft today issued patches to plug 48 security holes in Windows and other Microsoft products. If you use Windows or Adobe products, it’s time once again to get your patches on. More than two dozen of the vulnerabilities fixed in today’s Windows patch bundle address “critical” flaws that can be exploited by malware or miscreants to assume complete, remote control over a vulnerable PC with little or no help from the user. According to Microsoft, none of flaws in August’s Patch Tuesday are being actively exploited in the wild, although Bleeping Computer notes that three of the bugs were publicly detailed before today’s patch release.

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New Mac Malware-as-a-Service offerings

June 14, 2017 admin anti-malware for Mac, apple, Bleeping Computer, Catalin Cimpanu, MaaS, Mac, MacRansom, MacSpy, malware, Malware-as-a-Service, Malwarebytes news, ransomware

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:00:01 +0000

A couple weeks ago, two new Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) offerings for the Mac became available. We take a closer look at these two offerings – a backdoor named MacSpy and a ransomware app named MacRansom.

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U.K. Hospitals Hit in Widespread Ransomware Attack

May 12, 2017 admin AVAST!, Bleeping Computer, Jakub Kroustek, Lawrence Abrams, National Health Service, Other, Telefonica, Wanna Decryptor, WannaCry

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 16:54:01 +0000

At least 16 hospitals in the United Kingdom are being forced to divert emergency patients today after computer systems there were infected with ransomware, a type of malicious software that encrypts a victim’s documents, images, music and other files unless the victim pays for a key to unlock them. It remains unclear exactly how this ransomware strain is being disseminated and why it appears to have spread so quickly, but there are indications the malware may be spreading to vulnerable systems through a security hole in Windows that was recently patched by Microsoft.