The Insecurity Brief

The Federal Trade Commission released a report on what internet service providers know about you. The report discloses that all, track and record much more than you may realize.

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October 21, 2021

Report finds many ISPs use web browsing data and group consumers using sensitive characteristics such as race and sexual orientation

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/look-what-isps-know-about-you-examining-privacy-practices-six-major-internet-service-providers/p195402_isp_6b_staff_report.pdf

Suspected Russian spies have continued targeting and aiming to compromise 140 technology service providers in recent months, according to Microsoft.

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Suspected Russian spies who exploited a federal contractor to breach nine U.S. government agencies last year have continued targeting technology supply chains, aiming to compromise 140 technology service providers in recent months, according to Microsoft.

https://www.cyberscoop.com/russian-hackers-microsoft-government-breach/

Russian government hackers breached the Treasury and Commerce departments, along with other U.S. government agencies, as part of a global espionage campaign that stretches back months, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-government-spies-are-behind-a-broad-hacking-campaign-that-has-breached-us-agencies-and-a-top-cyber-firm/2020/12/13/d5a53b88-3d7d-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html

Facebook attempts to make headlines filing law suits while whistle blower pushes Parliament and other governments to regulate the global company

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Facebook has filed a lawsuit on Friday against a Ukrainian national for allegedly scraping its website and selling the personal data of more than 178 million users on an underground cybercrime forum.

https://therecord.media/facebook-sues-ukrainian-who-scraped-the-data-of-178-million-users/

Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international “data scraping” operation. The operation extended across Facebook properties, including both Facebook and Instagram, as well as other large websites and services, including Twitter, Amazon, LinkedIn and YouTube. The companies, which gathered the data of Facebook users for “marketing intelligence” purposes, did so in violation of Facebook’s Terms of Service, says Facebook.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/01/facebook-sues-two-companies-engaged-in-data-scraping-operations/

Last Friday Google erased The Hacker News Website leaving the company with no web presence. It reversed its decision and reinstated the website after The Hacker News staff reached out to Google employees on Twitter.

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In this article we discuss a vulnerability in the trial version of WinRAR which has significant consequences for the management of third-party software. This vulnerability allows an attacker to intercept and modify requests sent to the user of the application.

Almost two years after a wave of complaints flooded Google’s support forums about YouTube accounts getting hijacked even if users had two-factor authentication enabled, Google’s security team has finally tracked down the root cause of these attacks.

https://therecord.media/google-unmasks-two-year-old-phishing-malware-campaign-targeting-youtube-users/

Google, for unknown reasons, has deleted http://thehackernews.com website from its servi

A new email extortion scam (bomb threat hoax) is finding its way to the inboxes of businesses, namely financial institutions. The sender suggests an accomplice has planted a bomb within the recipient’s building that will be detonated if a bitcoin ransom is not paid by the end of the workday.

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Oracle Quarterly Critical Patches Issued October 19, 2021

Artificial intelligence is sexist to credit scoring, racist to sick African American patients, and became a jerk not on Twitter. A new ethical AI company tries to tackle the problem.

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#unethicalAi #Ransomware #Stalkerware #AI #Ethics

Representatives from the U.S., the European Union, and 30 other countries pledged to mitigate the risk of ransomware and harden the financial system from exploitation with the goal of disrupting the ecosystem, calling it an “escalating global security threat with serious economic and security consequences.”

https://thehackernews.com/2021/10/over-30-countries-pledge-to-fight.html

The private phone data of hundreds of thousands of people are at risk. Call records, text messages, photos, browsing history, precise geolocations and call recordings can all be pulled from a person’s phone because of a security issue in widely used consumer-grade spyware.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/19/stalkerware-security-phone-data-thousands/

There are many in the world of AI who worry about its implications. One of those people is Navrina Singh, a former product manager for Qualcomm, then Microsoft, who saw firsthand at Microsoft how a Twitter bot it developed in 2016 as an experiment in “conversational understanding,” was, to quote The Verge, “taught to be a racist asshole in less than a day.

A joint alert issued by federal agencies warns organizations involved in the water and wastewater management sector to remain on high alert. Threat actors with unauthorized access may manipulate systems so as to prevent the provisioning of clean water to America’s communities.

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Ransomware attackers are continuing to target water and wastewater facilities, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials warned in a bulletin based on incidents in five states.

Zoox, the autonomous vehicle startup acquired last year by Amazon, is expanding to Seattle. The company plans to open in 2022 an engineering office and operations facility, which will act as a base for its autonomous vehicle testing,

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on Thursday said it’s tracking more than 270 government-backed threat actors from more than 50 countries, adding it has approximately sent 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attempts to customers since the start of 2021.

Microsoft’s record of abysmal response times to remove malware from its 365 one drive product, is furthering risks of malware and ransomware by allowing further infection through inaction.

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At the beginning of this month, the Indian Home Ministry made a startling proposal to ban VPN services such as NordVPN, ExpressVPN, etc., which sent shock waves across the digital community.

https://cloudsek.com/home-ministry-proposes-ban-on-vpn-services-should-you-be-worried/

Malware on Windows devices has become a real problem in recent years, specifically due to a recent increase in ransomware. It seems that Microsoft is trying to address this issue but what if Microsoft is part of the problem?

Before the train of MS employees arrive saying ‘just report it’, try getting them and future ones taken down yourselves. I did. It was a disaster.

Check out Microsoft’s average reaction time (to abuse reports). They’re world’s best malware hoster for about a decade, due to O365.

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1449094895298392067

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A report by Sophos reviled a dating app scam that led to the theft of millions of dollars from people on Tinder, Bumble, Facebook Dating and similar apps. Scammers convinced victims to download fake crypto apps, where they duped them into investing money before freezing the accounts.

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Microsoft made waves in technology, regulatory and international domains today by announcing the eventual end of its LinkedIn service in China. The company had previously made certain profiles unavailable in the country due to regulatory pressure.

Cybersecurity company Sophos has released new insight on international cryptocurrency trading scam targeting iPhone users through popular dating apps. Researchers claim that attackers have expanded from targeting people in Asia to including users in the US and Europe.

https://cybernews.com/news/iphone-users-ripped-off-at-least-1-4-million-through-bumble-and-tinder-scams/

Apple released a position paper on Oct. 13, arguing that forcing the company to open its App Store software-distribution platform to allow third-party software sellers to install software — a process often called “sideloading” — would undermine the security of iOS devices.

https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/worried-over-anti-trust-debate-apple-talks-

Customers were forced to rant on social media, many had lost control of their accounts, passwords and addresses had been changed in the system leaving them with no way to contact the company for support.

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Ghost Robotics and SWORD International have teamed up to create a rifle-toting “robot dog.” Called the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle, or SPUR, the system adds a 6.5mm Creedmoor rifle from SWORD to one of Ghost Robotics’ quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles, or Q-UGVs.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42717/robot-dogs-can-now-have-6-5mm-assault-rifles-mounted-on-their-backs

In a Monday blog post, Microsoft said that an undisclosed European Azure cloud platform customer suffered a record-breaking 2.4 Tbps (terabytes per second) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Thankfully, it was mitigated by Azure’s DDoS protection platform.

https://cybernews.com/news/microsoft-stops-record-breaking-ddos-attack/

On Wednesday, Verizon’s Visible – an all-digital, uber-cheap wireless carrier – confirmed what customers have been complaining about on Reddit and Twitter all week: They lost control of their accounts; had their passwords and shipping addresses changed; and some got stuck with bills for pricey new iPhones.

https://threatpost.com/verizon-visible-wireless-credential-stuffing/175483/