An anonymous Intrusion Truth security researchers group has discovered that a cyber-espionage group associated with China uses 13 cover companies. They probably operate on the island of Hainan.
A rational and consistent approach to privacy offers benefits and peace for large and small businesses. The most important thing is to stick to certain rules that significantly facilitate the privacy and protection of company data.
https://www.techradar.com/news/making-customer-privacy-a-priority
The ransomware encodes files and adds an unusual extension for highlighting. The Snake software adds a randomly selected string and thus makes it difficult to recognize by name.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/13/snake-alert-this-ransomware-is-not-a-game/
A hacker in a white hat, using a Twitter handle, located a database that has confidential information and data from a huge number of Americans. The database was located on a computer in China. CheckPeople takes security issues very seriously, recently announced that they will investigate the matter.
https://www.hackread.com/personal-data-millions-americans-exposed-china-pc/
The attackers know our nature and our pleasure from connections and trust in establishing social contacts. This is the most effective weapon for cybercriminals using social engineering as an attack vector, and in particular it is very difficult to combat.
https://www.techradar.com/news/cyber-threats-that-use-social-engineering
Many problems can be solved by SMC starting with simple queries or statistics. Raw data is neither transferred nor disclosed.
https://dzone.com/articles/how-secure-multi-party-computation-smc-allows-you
Google’s Bug Search Project Zero has improved the disclosure policy.
Behind the malicious TrickBot software are Russian-speaking cybercriminals who developed a stealthy backdoor called “PowerTrick” to inflate targets with great value.
https://threatpost.com/trickbot-custom-stealthy-backdoor/151663/
The dark network is only a fraction of the Internet, but nevertheless 1500 passwords were found. A visible region when it comes to using the Dark Web is North America. 26 percent of Americans admit using the Dark Web every day, with 7% using it at least once a week.
https://www.techradar.com/news/more-and-more-americans-are-using-the-dark-web
Very important in running your own business is training and making users aware of the dangers and losses associated with ransomware. An important stage is the implementation of the rules for using the software (creating a white list of allowed applications greatly reduces the risk of infection). The next very important step is creating strong and complicated passwords, sharing files and other resources, accessing websites, blocking the default access of activities that are the most common cause of infection – e.g. the possibility of running macros in documents, using a pendrive.
https://www.techradar.com/news/three-phases-of-malware-defense