LinkedIn has reportedly been breached—again—following reports of a massive sale of information scraped from 500M LinkedIn user profiles in the underground…
Month: June 2021
Police seize DoubleVPN data, servers, and domain
A coordinated effort between global law enforcement agencies—led by the Dutch National Police—shut down a VPN service that was advertised on…
Babuk ransomware builder leaked following muddled “retirement”
In the last days of April 2021, the operators of Babuk ransomware announced they were going to focus on demanding a…
Fired by algorithm: The future’s here and it’s a robot wearing a white collar
Black Mirror meets 1984. Imagine that your employer uses a bot to keep track of your “production level.” And when this…
What is the WireGuard VPN protocol?
In layman’s terms, a VPN uses encryption to create a private online connection between a device and a VPN server. With…
Lil’ skimmer, the Magecart impersonator
This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura A very common practice among criminals consists of mimicking legitimate infrastructure when registering…
Is it game over for VR advergaming?
We’ve been warning about advergaming—the combination of virtual reality (VR) and ads—for years on the Labs Blog. I’ve given a few…
Binance receives the ban hammer from UK’s FCA
Binance, the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange network, has had a rough few days. First, Japan’s financial regulator, the…
A week in security (June 21 – June 27)
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Complicated Active Directory setups are undermining security
Security researchers and technical architects from SpecterOps have found that almost every Active Directory installation they have looked at over the…