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  • October 27, 2022

British Hacker Charged for Operating “The Real Deal” Dark Web Marketplace

A 34-year-old U.K. national has been arraigned in the U.S. for operating a dark web marketplace called The Real Deal that specialized in the sales of hacking tools and stolen login credentials. Daniel Kaye, who went by a litany of pseudonyms Popopret, Bestbuy, UserL0ser, and Spdrman, has been charged with five counts of access device fraud and […]

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  • October 27, 2022

Researchers Expose Over 80 ShadowPad Malware C2 Servers

As many as 85 command-and-control (C2) servers have been discovered supported by the ShadowPad malware since September 2021, with infrastructure detected as recently as October 16, 2022. That’s according to VMware’s Threat Analysis Unit (TAU), which studied three ShadowPad variants using TCP, UDP, and HTTP(S) protocols for C2 communications. ShadowPad, seen as a successor to PlugX, is a modular

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iOS Bluetooth Bug Allowed Apps to Eavesdrop on User Conversations

It affected all Apple devices, including Macs, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV

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LinkedIn Unveils New Security Features to Tackle Fraud

The social media company made the announcement in a blog post on Tuesday

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  • October 27, 2022

Ransomware: Open Source to the Rescue

Automobile, Energy, Media, Ransomware?When thinking about verticals, one may not instantly think of cyber-criminality. Yet, every move made by governments, clients, and private contractors screams toward normalizing those menaces as a new vertical. Ransomware has every trait of the classical economical vertical. A thriving ecosystem of insurers, negotiators, software providers, and managed

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Kolide can help you nail audits and compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet

Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Kolide. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Do you know the old thought experiment about the AI designed to make paper clips that quickly decides that it will have to eliminate all the humans to maximize paper clips? Many security […]

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  • October 27, 2022

Secure Your Hybrid Workforce Using These SOC Best Practices

Hybrid Workforce is here to stay Just a few years ago when the topic of supporting offsite workers arose, some of the key conversation topics were related to purchase, logistics, deployment, maintenance and similar issues. The discussions back then were more like “special cases” vs. today’s environment where supporting workers offsite (now known as the […]

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  • October 27, 2022

LOCKING THE BACK DOOR (Pt. 4 of “Why Don’t You Go Dox Yourself?”)

With passwords and MFA out of the way, let’s next look at connected apps or services that are tied to our priority accounts. When you log into other sites on the web through Facebook, Google, or another social account, as well as when you install social media apps or games, you are sharing information about […]

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  • October 27, 2022

Apple iOS and macOS Flaw Could’ve Let Apps Eavesdrop on Your Conversations with Siri

A now-patched security flaw in Apple’s iOS and macOS operating systems could have potentially enabled apps with Bluetooth access to eavesdrop on conversations with Siri. Apple said “an app may be able to record audio using a pair of connected AirPods,” adding it addressed the Core Bluetooth issue in iOS 16.1 with improved entitlements. Credited […]

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