SEC charges dark web user of insider trading, money laundering

By Deeba Ahmed The accused is a Greek national who used AlphaBay marketplace with the alias "The Bull" on the dark web for insider trading information. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SEC charges dark web user of insider trading, money laundering...

Stealing Xbox Codes

Detailed story of Volodymyr Kvashuk, a Microsoft insider who noticed a bug in the companys internal systems that allowed him to create unlimited Xbox gift cards, and stole $10.1 million before he was caught...

Data Exfiltration: What You Should Know to Prevent It

In today’s digitally driven era, data is the most critical component of a business. Companies are collecting more data than ever before, and constantly enhancing their operations through data-driven decisions. As a result, data leaks are a serious concern for companies of all sizes; if one occurs...

What is an Insider Threat❓ Examples of Threats and Defenses

An insider threat is a vulnerability danger that originates from inside the affected organization, according to a clear description. The root of the problem would be someone with enough internal knowledge of the business to cause damage. This is not to say that the threat is being made by a curre...

Critical CISO Initiatives for the Second Half of 2021

As we all know, the coronavirus pandemic has affected CISOs and other security and risk-management leaders worldwide. Some of these leaders are developing and implementing security projects which are designed to simultaneously minimize the risk as well as support remote workers. In talking with o...

Know your enemy! The four types of cyber attackers trying to breach your security today

As business needs compel organizations to manage an ever-increasing number of database types, both on-premise and in the cloud, the threat surface has also become larger and far more difficult to manage effectively. The bad actors out there know this, too. They are constantly probing, testing, an...

Insider Risks In the Work-From-Home World

The employee who exfiltrated data after being fired. The employees who exposed 250 million customer records. The employee who stole trade secrets to get a leg up in his next job because hey, after all, it’s “his” work that he’s taking, right? Those are our traditional notions of insider risk and...

Supreme Court narrows CFAA

The US Supreme Court issued its long-awaited-by-cybersecurity-nerds opinion on Van Buren v. United States. The case examined whether it was a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA for a police officer to access a law enforcement database to obtain information, which the officer then...

Cybercrime, fraud, and insider threats increased in 2020 in the UK, report says

Since the initial lockdown, we have seen the rise of certain types of cybercrime, including scams and fraud campaigns that either bank on the global COVID-19 pandemic or take advantage of potential victims that adhere to work-from-home measures. In the UK, the National Crime Agency NCA has...

Securing Privileged Access Within Healthcare Orgs

Healthcare organizations have always been high-value targets for cybercriminals, as their networks store large volumes of personally identifiable information PII including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and very sensitive personal health data. Since the beginning of the COVID-...

A week in security (May 24 -30)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs we discussed VPN Android apps, how even the FBI has to deal with insider threats, Chromes Incognito mode, new rules for critical infrastructure spurred by the Colonial Pipeline attack, how to delete your Twitter account, what encryption is, how healthcare service...

Top Four Reasons for Data Loss from Databases (and what to do about it)

The need for data loss prevention DLP is well understood by IT security practitioners. As organizations embrace cloud-based managed database services such as Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift, these risks don’t go away, and in many ways become more serious. Although AWS takes the security of their...

Combatting Insider Threats with Keyboard Security

As cyberattacks snowball and insider threats become an ever-larger part of the problem, it may be time to move beyond purely software-based cyber-defenses. Implementing hardware-based security, like secure keyboards, can be an important part of the mix. Those in IT-leadership roles are well aware...

Insider threats: If it can happen to the FBI, it can happen to you

If you’re worried about the risk of insider threats, you’re not alone. It can affect anyone, even the FBI. A federal grand jury has just charged a former intelligence analyst with stealing confidential files from 2004 to 2017. That’s an incredible 13 years of “What are you doing with that pile of...

FBI Analyst Indicted for Theft of Osama bin Laden Threat Intel

An FBI analyst with top-secret security clearance illegally squirreled away national-security documents related to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, cybersecurity and more in her home for years, the feds say. Kendra Kingsbury, who was working in the FBI’s Kansas City Division until being put on leave in...

FBI Analyst Charged With Stealing Counterterrorism and Cyber Threat Info

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ indicted an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI for illegally removing numerous national security documents and willfully retaining them at her personal residence during a 13-year period from June 2004 to December 2017. The federal indictment...

The Gig Economy Creates Novel Data-Security Risks

As businesses strive to move faster and faster, many are adopting a “just-in-time” strategy of spinning up human resources on demand – a phenomenon known as the gig economy, familiar to most via Uber, Instacart or DoorDash. But it’s a concept that enterprises are embracing too – inadvertently...

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server is a server-side application from Proofpoint, Inc. for preventing malicious operations by enterprise insiders. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the WriteWindowMouse API in Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server versions prior to 7.9....

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-36665)

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server is a server-side application from Proofpoint, Inc. for preventing malicious operations by enterprise insiders. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the WriteImage API of Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server versions prior to 7.9.1. The...

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-36667)

Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server is a server-side application from Proofpoint, Inc. for preventing malicious operations by enterprise insiders. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the WriteWindowMouseWithChunksV2 API in Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server versions...