Russian Who Hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

A Russian hacker who was found guilty of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring over eight years ago has finally been sentenced to 88 months in United States prison, that's more than seven years by a federal court in San Francisco this week. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin , 32, of Moscow hack...

Unsecured Microsoft Bing Server Exposed Users' Search Queries and Location

A back-end server associated with Microsoft Bing exposed sensitive data of the search engine's mobile application users, including search queries, device details, and GPS coordinates, among others. The logging database, however, doesn't include any personal details such as names or addresses. The...

Charming Kitten Returns with WhatsApp, LinkedIn Effort

The Iran-affiliated APT known as Charming Kitten is back with a new approach, impersonating Persian-speaking journalists via WhatsApp and LinkedIn, in order to con victims into opening malicious links. The targets are Israeli scholars from Haifa and Tel Aviv universities, and U.S. government...

Iranian Hackers Pose as Journalists to Trick Victims Into Installing Malware

An Iranian cyberespionage group known for targeting government, defense technology, military, and diplomacy sectors is now impersonating journalists to approach targets via LinkedIn and WhatsApp and infect their devices with malware. Detailing the new tactics of the "Charming Kitten" APT group,...

Iranian Hackers Pose as Journalists to Trick Victims Into Installing Malware

An Iranian cyberespionage group known for targeting government, defense technology, military, and diplomacy sectors is now impersonating journalists to approach targets via LinkedIn and WhatsApp and infect their devices with malware. Detailing the new tactics of the "Charming Kitten" APT group,...

Lazarus Group Targets Cryptocurrency Firms Via LinkedIn Messages

The nation-state threat operator Lazarus Group is being tied to a recent phishing campaign that targeted admins at a cryptocurrency firm via LinkedIn messages. Researchers say that the recently identified a series of incident that were part of a broader campaign targeting businesses worldwide...

LinkedIn was copying every keystroke of users until iOS 14 exposed it

By Deeba Ahmed The Universal Clipboard privacy feature on iPhone's latest iOS 14... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LinkedIn was copying every keystroke of users until iOS 14 exposed it...

iPhone Apps Stealing Clipboard Data

iOS apps are repeatedly reading clipboard data, which can include all sorts of sensitive information. While Haj Bakry and Mysk published their research in March, the invasive apps made headlines again this week with the developer beta release of iOS 14. A novel feature Apple added provides a bann...

Nation-State Espionage Campaigns against Middle East Defense Contractors

Report on espionage attacks using LinkedIn as a vector for malware, with details and screenshots. They talk about "several hints suggesting a possible link" to the Lazarus group aka North Korea, but that's by no means definite. As part of the initial compromise phase, the Operation Interception...

Identifying a Person Based on a Photo, LinkedIn and Etsy Profiles, and Other Internet Bread Crumbs

Interesting story of how the police can identify someone by following the evidence chain from website to website. According to filings in Blumenthal's case, FBI agents had little more to go on when they started their investigation than the news helicopter footage of the woman setting the police c...

This Week in Security News: Intel Says ‘Tiger Lake’ Will Drown Control-Flow Malware and New Phishing Campaign Targeting Office 365 Exploits Brand Names

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how the next generation of Intel mobile processors will include malware protection built into the chip. Also, read about a new...

Hackers posing as LinkedIn recruiters to scam military, aerospace firms

By Waqas If you are on LinkedIn, watch out! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers posing as LinkedIn recruiters to scam military, aerospace firms...

Hackers Target Military and Aerospace Staff by Posing as HRs Offering Jobs

Cybersecurity researchers today took the wraps off a new sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign directed against aerospace and military organizations in Europe and the Middle East with an aim to spy on key employees of the targeted firms and, in some case, even to siphon money. The campaign, dubb...

Hackers Target Military and Aerospace Staff by Posing as HRs Offering Jobs

Cybersecurity researchers today took the wraps off a new sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign directed against aerospace and military organizations in Europe and the Middle East with an aim to spy on key employees of the targeted firms and, in some case, even to siphon money. The campaign, dubb...

LinkedIn 'Job Offers' Targeted Aerospace, Military Firms With Malware

Attackers are impersonating human resource employees from Collins Aerospace and General Dynamics in a spear-phishing campaign leveraging LinkedIn’s messaging service. Targets are sent phony job offers that include malicious documents designed to fetch data-exfiltrating malware. The spear-phishing...

LinkedIn: LinkedIn users primary email + full name visibilty

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Targeted Phishing Attacks Successfully Hacked Top Executives At 150+ Companies

In the last few months, multiple groups of attackers successfully compromised corporate email accounts of at least 156 high-ranking officers at various firms based in Germany, the UK, Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Dubbed 'PerSwaysion,' the newly spotted cyberattack campaign leveraged...

Zoom Removes Data-Mining LinkedIn Feature

Zoom has nixed a feature that came under fire for “undisclosed data mining” of users’ names and email addresses, used to match them with their LinkedIn profiles. The feature, the LinkedIn Sales Navigator, is a LinkedIn service used for sales prospecting. When users enter a web conference meeting,...

Security advisory YSA-2020-01 | Yubico

Yubico received a report from LinkedIn Information Security indicating there is insufficient data validation in the open-source project for YubiKey Validation Server git: yubikey-val. Yubico verified the issue and has made a security update available to mitigate this issue and enhance the...

AttackSurfaceMapper - A Tool That Aims To Automate The Reconnaissance Process

Attack Surface Mapper is a reconnaissance tool that uses a mixture of open source intellgence and active techniques to expand the attack surface of your target. You feed in a mixture of one or more domains, subdomains and IP addresses and it uses numerous techniques to find more targets. It...