911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 19:34:45 +0000

911[.]re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The abrupt closure comes ten days after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look at 911 and its connections to shady pay-per-install affiliate programs that secretly bundled 911’s proxy software with other titles, including “free” utilities and pirated software.

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To settle with the DoJ, Uber must confess to a cover-up. And it did.

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:44:16 +0000

The 2016 Uber data breach affected the personal information of 57 million people. And then the company covered it all up.

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The ransomware landscape changes as fewer victims decide to pay

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:33:28 +0000

A considerable drop in the median of ransom payments and several other circumstances are causing the ransomware landscape to change.

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Criminals using compromised social media accounts to “post indecent images of children” says UK cybercrime organization

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:04:26 +0000

UK based Action Fraud is warning of hacked social media accounts posting indecent images of children. We dig into available information.

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Google delays Chrome third party cookie sunsetting…again

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:49:14 +0000

We take a look at the second delay to Google’s intended sunsetting of third party cookies in Chrome, along with the reason why.

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PowerShell: An Attacker’s Paradise

Credit to Author: Mrigank Tyagi| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:13:02 +0000

  PowerShell was originally intended as a task automation and configuration management program for system administrators. However, it…

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