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Conti, REvil, LockBit ransomware bugs exploited to block encryption

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Dissent

Ionut Ilascu reports: Hackers commonly exploit vulnerabilities in corporate networks to gain access, but a researcher has turned the table by finding exploits in the most common ransomware and malware being distributed today. Malware from notorious ransomware operations like Conti, the revived REvil, the newcomer Black Basta, the highly active LockBit, or AvosLocker, all came with…

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Breast Cancer Support Organization Leaks Data Despite Multiple Notifications?

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Dissent

Update: After posting this, tweeting this story, and getting retweets on it, it appears that as of late yesterday, the bucket was finally secured. Thanks to SafeyDetectives who kept re-checking the bucket and to everyone who tried to call attention to this to get the data locked down. DataBreaches did not get any acknowledgement or…

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Nobody Knows Where the Red Line Is for Cyberwarfare

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Dissent

Katrina Manson reports: A common explanation for why the Soviet Union never used nuclear weapons during the Cold War was the expectation that any attack would likely prompt a devastating nuclear response. The fear of mutually assured destruction was enough to keep both the USSR and the U.S. from launching a nuclear attack, even as…

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This Israeli Helped One of the World’s Biggest Jewish Organizations – Now He’s in Trouble

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Dissent

Ran Bar-Zik reports what sounds like a situation where a cybersecurity student who engaged in responsible disclosure after finding a leak at the scholarship application website of the American Joint Distribution Committee (“the Joint”) felt pressured and anxious by the Joint trying to get him to sign a statement afterwards. And so far, he hasn’t…

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Mozilla finds mental health apps fail ‘spectacularly’ at user security, data policies

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Dissent

Charlie Osborne reports: An investigation into mental health and prayer apps has revealed a disturbing lack of concern surrounding user security and privacy. On Monday, Mozilla released the findings of a new study into these types of apps, which often deal with sensitive topics including depression, mental health awareness, anxiety, domestic violence, PTSD, and more,…

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Hacking Russia was off-limits. The Ukraine war made it a free-for-all.

Posted on May 1, 2022 by Dissent

Joseph Menn reports: ….. the third month of war finds Russia, not the United States, struggling under an unprecedented hacking wave that entwines government activity, political voluntarism and criminal action. Digital assailants have plundered the country’s personal financial data, defaced websites and handed decades of government emails to anti-secrecy activists abroad. One recent survey showed…

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