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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:27:11 +0000
Big-three credit bureau Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay at least $650 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2017 breach that let intruders steal personal and financial data on roughly 148 million Americans. Here’s a brief primer that attempts to break down what this settlement means for you, and what it says about the value of your identity.
Read MoreCredit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:59:09 +0000
KrebsOnSecurity has seen some creative yet truly bizarre ads for cybercrime services in the underground, but the following animated advertisement for a popular credit card fraud shop likely takes the cake.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:41:21 +0000
The U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) said today companies can offer discounted cybersecurity services to political campaigns without running afoul of existing campaign finance laws, provided they already do the same for other non-political entities. The decision comes amid much jostling on Capitol Hill over election security at the state level, and fresh warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies about impending cyber attacks targeting candidates in the lead up to the 2020 election.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:27:42 +0000
The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware strain announced on May 31, 2019 they were terminating the program after allegedly having earned more than $2 billion in extortion payouts from victims. What follows is a deep dive into who may be responsible for recruiting new members to help spread the contagion.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:16:11 +0000
For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as “Robbinhood.” Media publications have cited sources saying the Robbinhood version that hit Baltimore city computers was powered by “Eternal Blue,” a hacking tool developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked online in 2017. But new analysis suggests that while Eternal Blue could have been used to spread the infection, the Robbinhood malware itself contains no traces of it.
Read MoreCredit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 13:58:59 +0000
New York regulators are investigating a weakness that exposed 885 million mortgage records at First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] as the first test of the state’s strict new cybersecurity regulation. That measure, which went into effect in March 2019 and is considered among the toughest in the nation, requires financial companies to regularly audit and report on how they protect sensitive data, and provides for fines in cases where violations were reckless or willful.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 22:21:47 +0000
Canadian government regulators are using the country’s powerful new anti-spam law to pursue hefty fines of up to a million dollars against Canadian citizens suspected of helping to spread malicious software.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 17:39:26 +0000
Would your average Internet user would be any more vigilant against phishing scams if he or she faced the real possibility of losing their job after falling for one too many of these emails? Recently, I met someone at a conference who said his employer had in fact terminated employees for such repeated infractions. As this was the first time I’d ever heard of an organization actually doing this, I asked some phishing experts what they thought (spoiler alert: they’re not fans of this particular teaching approach).
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