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More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds. Image: Shutterstock. Your Web browser knows how to find a site like…
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Cybercriminals looking to abuse the power of generative AI to build phishing campaigns and sophisticated malware can now purchase easy access to them from underground marketplaces as large numbers of threat actors are putting stolen GenAI credentials up for sale every day. Hackers are selling usernames and passwords of approximately 400 individual GenAI accounts per…
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Jul 31, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Threat Intelligence Japanese organizations are the target of a Chinese nation-state threat actor that leverages malware families like LODEINFO and NOOPDOOR to harvest sensitive information from compromised hosts while stealthily remaining under the radar in some cases for a time period ranging from two to three years. Israeli cybersecurity…
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Jul 31, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Malware A new malicious campaign has been observed making use of malicious Android apps to steal users’ SMS messages since at least February 2022 as part of a large-scale campaign. The malicious apps, spanning over 107,000 unique samples, are designed to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs) used for online account…
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7. Data exfiltration Frequently overlooked, data exfiltration is a significant cloud security threat. “Data exfiltration refers to the electronic transmission of data from a cloud environment to an unauthorized external location,” says John Henley, principal consultant at technology research and advisory firm ISG. “This could occur in several ways, including the exploitation of a vulnerability,…
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Jul 31, 2024Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Social Media Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with the U.S. state of Texas over allegations that it illegally collected biometric data of millions of users without their permission, marking one of the largest penalties levied by regulators against the…
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Adaptive Shield, a leader in SaaS Security, today announced its breakthrough Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) platform for SaaS environments. Since entering this space a year ago, the company has already become a leader in the field, implementing the solution in hundreds of enterprise customer environments. Adaptive Shield will demonstrate its new ITDR platform…
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For the second year in a row, Brazil took the crown as the country with the lowest cost per breach, at $1.36 million (though up by 11.5%, from $1.22 million in 2023). Damages vary by attack type and skills shortage The type of attack influenced the financial damage, the report noted. Destructive attacks, in which…
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Asked if there will differences in how online identity will be handled in China compared to other nations such as India, with its Aadhaar identifier, or France, whose France Connect allows residents to authenticate their identity to most government departments based on a verified identity already provided to another department, he said he expects that…
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Mystified as to how this was possible, Guardio noticed that the phishing emails all originated on an SMTP virtual server routed via Office365 Online Exchange before entering a domain-specific relay server operated by Proofpoint. Importantly, that final Proofpoint server was where the DKIM and SPF authenticity would be passed as legitimate, essentially allowing it to…
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