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ESET Research discovers Bandidos, a new spying campaign in Venezuela

July 7, 2021

The latest version of Bandook steals sensitive documents and credentials from corporate networks, creates a malicious Chrome extension, and misuses URL shorteners like Rebrandly and Bitly. ESET Research has recently uncovered a new and still active campaign that uses more advanced versions of the old crimeware Bandook to spy on its victims. The ongoing campaign … More ESET Research discovers Bandidos, a new spying campaign in Venezuela

What is the Zero Trust security model, and why is its adoption growing?

July 6, 2021

Zero Trust promotes the concept that organizations should not trust any entity inside or outside their network perimeters in a predetermined fashion. Adoption of the Zero Trust security model is picking up steam at last. In February 2020 – before the pandemic swept the world – a survey of more than 400 IT security decision makers conducted … More What is the Zero Trust security model, and why is its adoption growing?

Twitter now lets users set security keys as the only 2FA method

July 5, 2021

You can now secure your account with a physical security key as your sole 2FA method, without any additional 2FA option. If you’re on Twitter, you can now use a hardware security key as your sole two-factor authentication (2FA) method. While previously the microblogging service allowed users to use a security key as one of several authentication … More Twitter now lets users set security keys as the only 2FA method

Global police shut down VPN service favored by cybercriminals

July 2, 2021

A global operation takes down the infrastructure of DoubleVPN and seizes data about its customers. Law enforcement agencies from Europe, the United States and Canada have teamed up to take down the web domains and seized the infrastructure of DoubleVPN, a virtual private network (VPN) service that was used by cybercriminals to conduct their activities … More Global police shut down VPN service favored by cybercriminals

Data for 700 million LinkedIn users up for grabs on hacker forum

July 1, 2021

Information scraped from LinkedIn user profiles includes full names, gender, email addresses and phone numbers. For the second time this year, data scraped from the accounts of hundreds of millions of LinkedIn users has been posted for sale on a hacking forum. This haul seems to be even bigger than the one that involved data … More Data for 700 million LinkedIn users up for grabs on hacker forum