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  • Two-Fifths of Ransomware Victims Still Paying Up

    Two-fifths (39%) of ransomware victims paid their extorters over the past three years, with the majority of these spending at least $100,000, according to new Anomali research.

    The security vendor hired The Harris Poll to complete its Cyber Resiliency Survey  interviewing 800 security decision-makers in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, the UAE, Mexico and Brazil.

  • Data for 700M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale in Cyber-Underground

    After 500 million LinkedIn enthusiasts were affected in a data-scraping incident in April, it’s happened again – with big security ramifications.

    A new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records has appeared on a popular hacker forum, according to researchers.

    Analysts from Privacy Sharks stumbled across the data put up for sale on RaidForums by a hacker calling himself “GOD User TomLiner.” The advertisement, posted June 22, claims that 700 million records are included in the cache, and included a sample of 1 million records as “proof.”

  • Attackers Breach Microsoft Customer Service Accounts

    American IT companies and government have been targeted by the Nobelium state-sponsored group.  

    The same group behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attacks has been targeting Microsoft’s corporate networks to gain access to specific organizations — primarily, U.S.-based IT and government organizations.

  • Dallmeier launches compact VMS with easy search facility

    In most video surveillance scenarios, the essential task is to identify relevant events in a short space of time. Therefore, surveillance managers need a powerful tool they can use to distil results rapidly and efficiently from the metadata and analytics data generated. To this end, the Smartfinder technology within new the Semsy Compact video management system from Dallmeier offers the companies innovative “Comfort Search” facility with a whole range of functions.

  • Experts uncover a new Banking Trojan targeting Latin American users

    Researchers on Tuesday revealed details of a new banking trojan targeting corporate users in Brazil at least since 2019 across various sectors such as engineering, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, finance, transportation, and government.