Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:15:27 +0000
A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone mainstream. In this scam, dubbed “ClickFix,” the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The UK, France, Sweden, and EU have made fresh attacks on end-to-end encryption. Some of the attacks are more “crude” than those in recent years, experts say.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:30:00 +0000
Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.
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Credit to Author: Ali Winston| Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:50:26 +0000
“No Lives Matter” has emerged in recent months as a particularly violent splinter group within the extremist crime network known as Com and 764, and experts are at a loss for how to stop its spread.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:53:01 +0000
Microsoft today issued more than 50 security updates for its various Windows operating systems, including fixes for a whopping six zero-day vulnerabilities that are already seeing active exploitation.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:49:02 +0000
Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov, 46, was apprehended while vacationing on the coast of India with his family.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:42:01 +0000
Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that’s not how it works.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: The world’s “largest illicit online marketplace” gets hit by regulators, police seize the Garantex crypto exchange, and scammers trick targets by making up ransomware attacks.
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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:30:00 +0000
Eleven11bot infects webcams and video recorders, with a large concentration in the US.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:20:05 +0000
In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion.
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