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US law enforcement has shut down another dark web market, seizing and dismantling SSNDOB, a site dealing in stolen personal information. Prior to the takedown, SSNDOB reportedly had 24 million individuals' records available for purchase, which it regularly advertised on dark web forums.
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Malware that steals your passwords, credit cards, and crypto wallets is being promoted through search results for a pirated copy of the CCleaner Pro Windows optimization program. The malware distributed in this campaign is a powerful information stealer that can harvest personal data and cryptocurrency assets and route internet traffic through data-snatching proxies.
Single factor authentication has been the standard for many years on Internet-facing services, but it clearly lacks security. While 2FA drastically increases the security of Internet services, it can still be bypassed by some methods.
A single forgotten, abandoned or unknown digital asset is a cybersecurity timebomb. Effective digital asset management - including IP address visibility - is your foundation to thwart an attacker's path of least resistance into your network.
Intel has released a reference design for a plug-in security card aimed at delivering improved network and security processing without requiring the additional rackspace a discrete appliance would need. The NetSec Accelerator Reference Design [PDF] is effectively a fully functional x86 compute node delivered as a PCIe card that can be fitted into an existing server.
Paying ransomware attackers doesn't pay off and often paints a bigger target on a victim's back.Eighty percent of ransomware victims that paid their attackers were hit a second time by the malware scourge.
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People are leaking classified military information on discussion boards for the video game War Thunder to win arguments—repeatedly.
A newcomer on the ransomware scene has coopted a 14-year-old malware variant to help it maintain persistence on a targeted network in a recent attack, researchers have found. Black Basta, a ransomware group that emerged in April, leveraged Qbot,, to move laterally on a compromised network, researchers from security consulting firm NCC Group wrote in a blog post published this week.