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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

December 8, 2022 admin alex holden, cl0p, clop ransomware, emsisoft, fabian wosar, Hold Security, ransomware, ta505, The Coming Storm, Tripwire, venus ransomware, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:25:04 +0000

Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious. The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” The other involves carefully editing email inboxes of public company executives to make it appear that some were involved in insider trading.

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Who’s In Your Online Shopping Cart?

November 4, 2018 admin @breachmessenger, 46.161.40.49, A Little Sunshine, AIDE, Breadcrumbs, British Airways breach, formjacking, Magecart, Newegg breach, RiskIQ, Symantec, The Coming Storm, Tripwire, watchdo.gs, Web Fraud 2.0, wewatchyourwebsite.com, window.atob, Yonathan Klijnsma

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:10:06 +0000

Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. In Internet ages past, this often meant obfuscating it as giant blobs of gibberish text that is obvious even to the untrained eye. These days, a compromised e-commerce site is more likely to be seeded with a tiny snippet of code that invokes a hostile domain which appears harmless or that is virtually indistinguishable from the hacked site’s own domain.

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Google to Fix Location Data Leak in Google Home, Chromecast

June 18, 2018 admin Craig Young, google, Google Chromecast, google home, Internet of Things, Intranet of Things, Latest Warnings, Tripwire

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:04:14 +0000

Google in the coming weeks is expected to fix a location privacy leak in two of its most popular consumer products. New research shows that Web sites can run a simple script in the background that collects precise location data on people who have a Google Home or Chromecast device installed anywhere on their local network.