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21 Jul

Russia Seeks 18 Years in Jail for Founder of Cybersecurity Firm

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A Russian prosecutor on Friday requested an 18-year prison sentence for Ilya Sachkov, founder of one of the country’s topcybersecurity firms, on treason charges. Sachkov, 37, co-founded the Group-IB cybersecurity firm in 2003. It specializes in the detection and prevention of cyberattacks and works with Interpol and several other global institutions. “State prosecutors requested that Sachkov be sentenced to 18 years in prison,” his lawyer Sergei Afanasyev was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.…

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20 Jul

S3 Ep144: When threat hunting goes down a rabbit hole

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by Paul Ducklin SING US A CYBERSECURITY SONG Why your Mac’s calendar app says it’s JUL 17. One patch, one line, one file. Careful with that {axe,file}, Eugene. Storm season for Microsoft. When typos make you sing for joy. No audio player below? Listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere that…

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20 Jul

Adobe Releases New Patches for Exploited ColdFusion Vulnerabilities

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Adobe has released a second round of patches for some recently disclosed ColdFusion vulnerabilities, including flaws that appear to have been exploited in attacks. On July 11, Adobe announced patches for CVE-2023-29298, an improper access control issue that can lead to a security feature bypass. On July 14, the company informed customers about fixes for CVE-2023-38203, a deserialization issue that could lead to arbitrary code execution.   A few days later, cybersecurity firm Rapid7 reported seeing…

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19 Jul

Protect yourself from ticketing scams ahead of the Premier League Summer Series USA Tour

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There is a significant secondary marketplace where tickets can sell for several times their original value, opening the opportunity for scammers and fraud As European football teams prepare to kick-off their summer soccer tours in the USA it provides a huge opportunity for local fans to see some of the top teams and players in the world on their home turfs. For many English Premier League teams this is an established annual occurrence and is…

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19 Jul

Child identity theft: how do I keep my kids’ personal data safe?

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Why is kids’ personal information in high demand, how do criminals steal it, and what can parents do to help prevent child identity theft? Total identity fraud losses in the US were estimated at a whopping $43bn last year. While many of us are getting savvier about how we protect our personal information online, can we say the same about our children’s data? Child identity theft is more common than you might think. Almost a…

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19 Jul

Google Virus Total leaks list of spooky email addresses

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by Paul Ducklin Early disclaimer: this isn’t quite the mother of all data breaches, nor even perhaps a younger cousin, so you can stand down from Blue Alert right away. As far as we can tell, only names, email addresses and employers were leaked in the wrongly shared document. But what names they were! The leaked list apparently made up a handy email Who’s Who list of global cybersecurity experts from intelligence agencies, law enforcement…

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19 Jul

Microsoft hit by Storm season – a tale of two semi-zero days

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by Paul Ducklin At the tail-end of last week, Microsoft published a report entitled Analysis of Storm-0558 techniques for unauthorized email access. In this rather dramatic document, the company’s security team revealed the background to a previously unexplained hack in which data including email text, attachments and more were accessed: from approximately 25 organizations, including government agencies and related consumer accounts in the public cloud. The bad news, even though only 25 organisations were apparently…

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19 Jul

Recycling Giant Tomra Takes Systems Offline Following Cyberattack

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Norwegian recycling giant Tomra has taken some of its systems offline after falling victim to what it describes as “an extensive cyberattack”. A multinational company, Tomra manufactures waste collection and sorting products, including reverse vending machines and food sorters. The company operates close to 100,000 recycling systems worldwide. On Monday, Tomra announced that some of its data systems were impacted by a cyberattack that was discovered on July 16, and that it immediately disconnected some…

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18 Jul

LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

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[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom, was hired in…

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18 Jul

Nigerian Man Sentenced to 8 Years in US Prison for $8 Million BEC Scheme

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A Nigerian national who had been living in the United Arab Emirates has been sentenced to more than eight years in a US prison for his role in an $8 million cybercrime scheme. The man, 31-year-old Olalekan Jacob Ponle, aka Mark Kain and Mr Woodbery, was involved in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme for at least nine months in 2019, while he was living in the UAE. He was arrested in the UAE in…

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