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1 month ago | 
bitdefender.com | Silviu Stahie
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is now in theaters, and many of the publicly available peer-to-peer sharing websites are already offering the movie as a download. Public interest in such a blockbuster gives cyberattackers a way to serve dangerous malware through unorthodox means. Downloading movies from torrent websites is illegal, but people still do it.
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2 months ago | 
securityboulevard.com | Richi Jennings |Tom Eston |Silviu Stahie |Ryan Stortz
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
bitdefender.com | Graham Cluley |Vlad Constantinescu |Silviu Stahie
The government of Thailand has cut the power supply to areas near its border with Myanmar that are known to host brutal scam compounds. These heavily-guarded fraud factories house armies of people, coerced into defrauding innocent people through bogus investment and romance baiting scams. The operators of the compounds earn billions of dollars each year from computer victims worldwide, with many of those in the compound misled or coerced to work for the scammers, trapped in virtual slavery.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
bitdefender.com | Silviu Stahie
Cybersecurity researchers have found an active botnet in the wild comprised of older GeoVision devices that have reached end of life (EOL). One good reason to replace older IoT devices is the lack of support that inevitably faces any kind of hardware. No device will receive support forever. At some point, any company making IoT devices will stop supporting older models and encourage people to move on to newer ones.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
bitdefender.com | Graham Cluley |Cristina POPOV |Silviu Stahie
One of the largest internet providers in France, Free S.A.S, has confirmed that it recently suffered a cybersecurity breach after a hacker attempted to sell what purported to be stolen data from the organisation on the dark web. Free told Le Monde that personal data related to some customers had indeed compromised after an attacker targeted a management tool.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
securityboulevard.com | Laura Bruck |Alina Bizga |Silviu Stahie
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
bitdefender.com | Graham Cluley |Cristina POPOV |Silviu Stahie
The government of Ukraine imposed a ban on the Telegram messaging app being used on official devices belonging to government officials, military staff, and critical infrastructure workers, citing security fears. In an announcement on Friday, Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council (Rnbo) claimed that Telegram posed a security threat to the nation, particularly during the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
bitdefender.com | Silviu Stahie |Graham Cluley
Two men have been arrested by the FBI and charged in relation to their alleged involvement in a scam which saw almost a quarter of a billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency stolen from a single victim. 20-year-old Malone Lam of Miami, and Jeandiel Serrano, 21, of Los Angeles, are charged with conspiring to steal and launder 3,100 Bitcoin (worth over $230 million) from a victim in Washington DC in August 2024.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
bitdefender.com | Graham Cluley |Silviu Stahie
A former boss of Ticketmaster has been sentenced after pleading guilty to illegally accessing computer servers of a rival company and stealing sensitive business information. In 2012, Stephen Mead left ticket company CrowdSurge, signing a $52,970 separation agreement promising not to keep or disclose confidential information from his former employer, such as client lists, passwords, marketing strategies, and financial data.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
bitdefender.com | Graham Cluley |Silviu Stahie
Every month, regular as clockwork on the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft releases fixes for security vulnerabilities in its products. It's important that these security holes are patched quickly and safely, before they are exploited by cybercriminals. Some are obviously more important to fix than others as hackers may already be actively exploiting the vulnerabilities in the wild.
