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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

February 26, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, escrow.com, godaddy breach december 2022, godaddy breach march 2020, godaddy breach november 2020, godaddy breach november 2021, Ne'er-Do-Well News, vishing, voice phishing, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:15:15 +0000

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website.

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

February 24, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, abdala tawfik, abdalla khafagy, bhproxies, bitsight, constella intelligence, hassan_isabad_subar, Intel 471, lewklabs, minerva labs, mylobot, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:51:23 +0000

A security firm has discovered that a five-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies, which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. Here’s a closer look at Mylobot, and a deep dive into who may be responsible for operating the BHProxies service.

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Hard-to-spot Mac crypto-mining threat, XMRig, hits Pirate Bay

February 23, 2023 admin apple, MacOS, Security

A new family of Mac malware that spreads through pirated versions of Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and other key creative apps has been identified by the Threat Labs team at Jamf.

The new XMRig threat is a subtle cryptocurrency mining attack that has evaded detection for months.

Piracy is bad karma, but good crypto

XMRig proliferates by attaching itself to pirated copies of creative applications, including versions of Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro X, and Adobe Photoshop. That’s the kind of “knock-off” Mac application you frequently find being distributed across peer to peer networks.

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New Protections for Food Benefits Stolen by Skimmers

February 17, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, All About Skimmers, consolidated appropriations act of 2023, deborah harris, ebt fraud, ebt skimming, electronic benefits transfer, homeless persons representation project, michelle salomon madaio, The Coming Storm, the massachusetts law reform institute, u.s. department of agriculture

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 21:09:07 +0000

Millions of Americans receiving food assistance benefits just earned a new right that they can’t yet enforce: The right to be reimbursed if funds on their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards are stolen by card skimming devices secretly installed at cash machines and grocery store checkout lanes.

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Three zero-days require urgent attention for Windows, Exchange

February 17, 2023 admin microsoft, Security, small and medium business, windows

Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday update deals with 76 vulnerabilities that affect Windows, Exchange, Office, and Microsoft development tools — and three Windows vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-21823, CVE-2023-21715 and CVE-2023-23376) have been reported as exploited in the wild and require immediate attention.

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Security tool adoption jumps, Okta report shows

February 15, 2023 admin Security

Identity and access management (IAM) vendor Okta today released a report detailing app use and security trends among its broad user base. Among other trends it identified, the report found that zero trust security policies have become more common, and uptake of a wide range of security tools has been sharply on the rise.

Okta survyed 17,000 customers globally, and found that zero trust usage among its clients has increased from 10% two years ago to 22% today, indicating both that the philosophy is more popular than ever, and that a wide swathe of the market is still there to be captured, according to the report.

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Download: UEM vendor comparison chart 2023

February 15, 2023 admin Blackberry, enterprise mobile management, google, IBM, microsoft, Security, Unified Endpoint Management, VMware

Credit to Author: ,| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 03:00:00 -0800

Unified endpoint management (UEM) is a strategic IT approach that consolidates how enterprises secure and manage an array of deployed devices including phones, tablets, PCs, and even IoT devices.

As remote and hybrid work models have become the norm over the past two years, “mobility management” has come to mean management of not just mobile devices, but all devices used by mobile employees wherever they are. UEM tools incorporate existing enterprise mobility management (EMM) technologies, such as mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), with tools used to manage desktop PCs and laptops.

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