NSA Leaker Outed, PPT Malware – Paul’s Security Weekly #517

More protections against data brokers were urged by lawmakers and data privacy experts to be added to the draft American Privacy Rights Act, which would only allow the deletion of consumer data provided that individual requests are made to the data brokers, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

BleepingComputer reports that widely used password management service LastPass is having its customers subjected to a new attack campaign involving the sophisticated CryptoChameleon phishing kit aimed at exfiltrating cryptocurrency assets.

The House has approved the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which seeks to bolster data privacy protections by prohibiting the warrantless acquisition of electronic and remote computing service providers' customer information among law enforcement and intelligence agencies, according to CyberScoop.