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| A roundup of the most interesting cybersecurity news stories from August 12 to 18, including a deep dive into facial recognition technology, swatting dangers, social engineering attacks on cities, and more.
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| The latest cybersecurity news for the week of August 5–11. We touch on problematic backdoors, the grim possibility of the Internet of Thoughts, and smart home improvement. We also released a retrospective report on ransomware.
Categories: Tags: a week in securityAPT28awisbackdoorsbitcoinbmibrain-machine interfacechrome incognitoCTNT reportdslr flawfacebookFancy BearIBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence ServicesIRISMark Zuckerbergmessenger kidsphishingprotonmailransomwarerobocallrobocall scamsextortionsmart homessteamStrontiumweekly blog roundup |
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| Equifax has been ordered to pay at least $650 million in relation to its enormous 2017 data breach. Users who were affected might be eligible for a claim. But watch out for scams!
Categories: Tags: credit monitoringdata breachdata breach settlementEquifaxEUEuropean UnionFederal Trade Commissionfraudfraud preventionFTCgdprGeneral Data Protection Regulationidentity theftphishingscamssettlementsocial security numbers |
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| A roundup of cybersecurity news from July 8–14, including secure data sending, federal data privacy law, the Soft Cell attack, and more.
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| A roundup of security news from June 17–23, including Android attacks, IoT mishaps, cities under fire from ransomware, and much more.
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| A recent Steam phishing campaign caught our eye, but looking deeper, we found it’s been around for a few months. We investigate the phish to show users how to spot the telltale signs of social engineering.
Categories: Tags: account hijackev certificatefake steam logingaminggaming securityphishingsteamsteam phishingsteam scamvalvevideo gameszombie account |
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| The city of Baltimore has experienced a very public ransomware attack. But in a season of increasing ransomware detections among organizations, they’re not alone. See which cites have been most impacted by ransomware and what organizations can do to develop resilience against attacks.
Categories: Tags: adam kujawaavoidancebackupbaltimorebaltimore ransomwaregreenvilleMalwarebytesphishingpreparationransomwareransomware avoidanceransomware tipsrobbinhoodrobinhoodspear phishing |
The post Ransomware isn’t just a big city problem appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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| Even e-commerce sites that do not take payment information themselves can be abused by crooks. In this post, we show how a web skimmer is able to inject an artificial iframe into the checkout page to prompt users for their credit card information. Victims will only realize something’s not right when they are redirected to the real (and external) payment form.
Categories: Tags: credit carde-commercehacked websitehackingiframeMagecartmagentophishingskimmer |
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| A roundup of security news from April 22–28, covering phishing, CCTV evasion, VPNs, and keeping data safe.
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| The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center have released their 2018 report about online crime. Which attacks are most popular? Where are the victims located? And how much money has been lost in the process?
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