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πŸ” Top 5 things to know about fleeceware πŸ”

Fleeceware is an important cybersecurity threat to be aware of. Tom Merritt offers five things you should know fleeceware apps.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
❌ Ransomware Gang Arrested for Spreading Locky to Hospitals ❌

A group of four people calling themselves "Pentaguard" were arrested in house raids.

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via "Threatpost".
ATENTIONβ€Ό New - CVE-2019-17066

In Ivanti WorkSpace Control before 10.4.40.0, a user can elevate rights on the system by hijacking certain user registries. This is possible because pwrgrid.exe first checks the Current User registry hives (HKCU) when starting an application with elevated rights.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
❌ Verizon Data Breach Report: DoS Skyrockets, Espionage Dips ❌

Denial of Service (DoS), ransomware, and financially-motivated data breaches were the winners in this year's Verizon DBIR.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” 86% of data breaches are conducted for financial gain πŸ”

Increases in hacking, phishing, and cloud-based attacks have been even more prevalent with the influx of remote work, Verizon found.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ” How the dark web is handling the coronavirus pandemic πŸ”

Many on the dark web are expressing the same thoughts and fears about COVID-19 as everyone else, while others are looking for ways to profit from it, says Trustwave.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
❌ Clever Phishing Attack Bypasses MFA to Nab Microsoft Office 365 Credentials ❌

The attack discovered by Cofense can steal sensitive user data stored on the cloud as well as find other victims to target.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ Hackers Hit Food Supply Company πŸ•΄

The attackers behind the REvil ransomware family has also threatened to release personal data on Madonna and other celebrities to the highest bidders.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
πŸ” CEOs, CISOs fear becoming the next big breach target πŸ”

Yet, less than half believe their business has an effective cybersecurity strategy in place, according to a Forcepoint survey.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ Cybersecurity Extends Far Beyond Security Teams & Everyone Plays a Part πŸ•΄

Security isn't about tools or technology; it's about establishing a broad, fundamental awareness and sense of responsibility among all employees.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
⚠ Firefox to tell you if sites are shortening your passwords ⚠

Mozilla is fixing a longstanding password problem to alert users when their password exceeds the maximum length allowed.

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via "Naked Security".
⚠ Cash-flashing rapper charged with money laundering for BTC-e ⚠

The FBI nabbed "Plinofficial" when he arrived at Miami airport carrying $20K cash, allegedly made off of the defunct, fraud-fav exchange.

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via "Naked Security".
πŸ›  nfstream 5.1.2 πŸ› 

nfstream is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with online or offline network data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, real world network data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has the broader goal of becoming a common network data processing framework for researchers providing data reproducibility across experiments.

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via "Security Tool Files β‰ˆ Packet Storm".
πŸ›  Falco 0.23.0 πŸ› 

Sysdig falco is a behavioral activity monitoring agent that is open source and comes with native support for containers. Falco lets you define highly granular rules to check for activities involving file and network activity, process execution, IPC, and much more, using a flexible syntax. Falco will notify you when these rules are violated. You can think about falco as a mix between snort, ossec and strace.

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via "Security Tool Files β‰ˆ Packet Storm".
❌ Adobe Patches Critical RCE Flaw in Character Animator App ❌

A critical remote code execution flaw in Adobe Character Animator was fixed in an out-of-band Tuesday patch.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ” Encrypt compressed files the easy way from Windows, macOS, or Linux πŸ”

Learn to secure multiple documents by encrypting compressed files on various OSes using a password.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
πŸ•΄ 7 Security Pros: What My Nontraditional Background Brings to the Job πŸ•΄

Job experience and degrees outside of the cybersecurity or IT world can provide invaluable diversity of thinking and problem-solving.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ Bluetooth Bugs Allow Impersonation Attacks on Legions of Devices ❌

A host of unpatched security bugs that allow BIAS attacks affects Bluetooth chips from Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung and others.

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via "Threatpost".
πŸ•΄ EasyJet Sees 9 Million Customer Email Addresses Stolen πŸ•΄

More than 2,000 customers also had credit card information taken in the attack.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
❌ WolfRAT Android Malware Targets WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger ❌

Researchers link the malware to Wolf Research operators with "high confidence" after it was spotted in campaigns targeting Thai users.

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via "Threatpost".