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Every presidential campaign website executes suspicious third-party code

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An analysis of 11 presidential campaign websites performed last September and again in December found multiple instances of potentially risky third-party code, unwanted code execution and unauthorized data tracking. According to a new report from The Media Trust, 81 percent of executing code on these websites was not internally developed, but rather from external third-party…

Cybercrime, Email Security, Government, Phishing, Research

FBI tallied 467K cybercrime complaints in 2019, totaling $3.5B in losses

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The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) last year fielded 467,361 complaints related to cybercrime activity that collectively cost victims $3.5 billion in losses, according the agency’s just released 2019 Internet Crime Report. The 2019 complaint count represents a nearly 33 percent increase from the 2018 total of 351,937, and the $3.5 billion figure also…

Network Security, Research, Security News

CISOs burdened by unhealthy stress levels, survey study finds

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In a recent survey of 400 U.S.- and UK-based chief information security officers, an overwhelming number, 88 percent, said they find themselves under a moderate or high amount of job-related stress. Moreover, 48 percent admitted that the stress has affected their mental health, while 31 percent said their job performance has suffered, according to .uk…

Cybercrime, Research, Security News

Billie Eilish sweeps Grammys, but Taylor Swift leads with most malware files

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Being nominated for a Grammy doesn’t not raise your Q-rating; it also, apparently, increases the likelihood that cybercriminals will appropriate your name or song tracks to trick targets into opening malicious files. Researchers at Kaspersky looked at 14 musical artists who were nominated this year for a major Grammy award and determined that in 2019…

Mobile Security, Network Security, Research, Security News

Imaginative attack scenarios elicit intrigue at NYU’s CSAW cyber event

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Using AI to create artificial fingerprints that can unlock strangers’ phones… abusing electric vehicle charging stations to overwhelm the power grid… exploiting 3D printer technology to execute an all-new form of supply chain attack… These may have once sounded like far-flung ideas, but top cyber minds at New York University have been actively exploring such…

APTs/cyberespionage, Cybercrime, Events, Malware, Network Security, Ransomware, Research, SC Security Ops Center, Security News, Vulnerabilities

We interviewed cyber experts on a Vegas ferris wheel. Then ride security showed up…

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In the film “Ocean’s 11,” Danny Ocean and his team of expert cybercriminals execute a daring casino heist in glitzy Las Vegas. This past summer at the Black Hat and DEF CON conferences in Sin City, the editorial staff at SC Media attempted to pull off a less ambitious – and decidedly more legal –…

Network Security, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Assessment, Research, Security News, Vulnerabilities

Metasploit Project publishes exploit for Bluekeep bug

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Coders late last week publicly released a working exploit for the dangerous Bluekeep bug that was found and patched earlier this year in Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol implementation. Designated as CVE-2019-0708, BlueKeep is a remote Windows kernel use-after-free vulnerability that could be used to create wormable attacks similar to the WannaCry ransomware incident of May…

Alleged Anonymous members indicted last Thursday led unassuming lives
Cybercrime, Research, Security News

Research: Hacktivism activity and chatter has markedly dropped since 2016

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After peaking in 2016, the number of active hacktivist groups have since dipped precipitously, as has overall online chatter regarding hacktivism, according to a new report from researchers at Recorded Future. Furthermore, the researchers found a marked reduction in the frequency of large-scale international hacktivism campaigns. Members of the company’s Insikt Group team theorize that…

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