The FCC has fined four major U.S. wireless carriers – AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon – a total of nearly $200 million for unlawfully selling access to their customers’ real-time location data without consent.
Additionally, the tech giant reports that it identified and blocked 333,000 Google Play accounts that uploaded malware, fraudulent apps, or engaged in repeated grave policy violations.
Researchers found a novel infection chain associated with the DarkGate malware, which is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) developed using Borland Delphi and marketed as a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) offering on a Russian-language cybercrime forum.
In April, Meduza faced two large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, prompting it to reach out to Qurium to investigate their origin and composition, the researchers said.
The Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot was unveiled in January 2023 as a program designed to “identify organizations with internet-accessible vulnerabilities commonly associated with known ransomware actors.”
The head of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency warned the country’s leading research universities on Thursday that foreign states are targeting their institutions and imperiling national security.
IT staff at SMEs is overwhelmed by the complexity and demands of managing multiple tools in their security stack, leading them to miss critical severity events and weaken their company’s security posture, according to Coro.
Members will include representatives of tech companies, critical infrastructure entities, academia, and government agencies, as well as “leaders in the civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy communities,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.
A controversial executive order that would require U.S. cloud companies to closely monitor the identities of their customers will move one step closer to the finish line next week amid opposition from the industry.
The tool allows users to directly recover multiple types of credentials from the LSASS without accessing its memory. This includes recovering Kerberos tickets, SSO cookies, DPAPI credential keys, and NTLMv1 responses.