New Mimic Ransomware Abuses Everything APIs for its Encryption Process

Credit to Author: Nathaniel Morales| Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Trend Micro researchers discovered a new ransomware that abuses the APIs of a legitimate tool called Everything, a Windows filename search engine developed by Voidtools that offers quick searching and real-time updates for minimal resource usage.

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Video game playing FISH live streams credit card ‘theft’

Categories: News

Tags: fish

Tags: video game

Tags: stream

Tags: credit card

Tags: pokemon

We take a look at an incredible tale of a fish who wouldn’t stop until it made a credit card purchase while streaming a video game.

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Consumer privacy and social media

Categories: News

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Social media

Tags: privacy

Tags: policies

Tags: fines

Tags: legislation

Tags: scraping

Tags: advertising

Social media platforms are making a lot of money with targeted advertising. To improve the targeting, they want us much of your data as you are willing to give up…

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Grand Theft Auto 5 exploit allows cheaters to tamper with your data

Categories: News

Tags: GTAV

Tags: grand theft auto 5

Tags: game

Tags: gaming

Tags: rockstar

Tags: exploit

Tags: corruption

Tags: profile

Tags: data

We take a look at reports of players having their GTAV data corrupted by exploiters.

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[updated]Ransomware money laundering operation disrupted, founder arrested

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: Cryptocurrency exchange

Tags: Bitzlato

Tags: Conti

Tags: ransomware

Tags: Hydra

Tags: dark web marketplace

The China-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato is accused of processing over $700 million of illicit funds.

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Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:58:46 +0000

On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer’s full credit report — armed with nothing more than a person’s name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number. Experian fixed the glitch, but remained silent about the incident for a month. This week, however, Experian acknowledged that the security failure persisted for nearly seven weeks, between Nov. 9, 2022 and Dec. 26, 2022.

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Microsoft Security reaches another milestone—Comprehensive, customer-centric solutions drive results

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000

Learn how Microsoft Security is simplifying security for the new hybrid, multi-platform environment while fostering a diverse new generation of defenders—and how your organization can benefit.

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AsyncRAT Analysis with ChatGPT

Credit to Author: Nihar Deshpande| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:46:41 +0000

  As cyber threats continue to evolve and become more sophisticated, it’s crucial for security researchers and professionals…

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Attacking The Supply Chain: Developer

Credit to Author: David Fiser| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this proof of concept, we look into one of several attack vectors that can be abused to attack the supply chain: targeting the developer. With a focus on the local integrated developer environment (IDE), this proof considers the execution of malicious build scripts via injecting commands when the project or build is incorrectly “trusted”.

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