InfoSec News Nuggets 09/29/2021

Microsoft warns of latest malware attack, explains how to avoid secret backdoor Microsoft has recently discovered another type of malware, named FoggyWeb by Microsoft, that hackers are currently using to remotely steal network admin credentials. The credentials allow the attacker group, which the company has called Nobelium, to hack into admin accounts of the Active Directory Federation Services’ (AD FS) servers and control users’ access to various resources. Microsoft claims that this is the same group behind the…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 03/17/2021

Half of Americans Experienced Identity Theft During COVID-19 Pandemic, New Study Shows A new report uncovers a striking pervasiveness of identity theft perpetrated against U.S. consumers where half of respondents surveyed experienced such an occurrence during the pandemic. Developed by Aite Group and underwritten by GIACT, the study found that 47% of U.S. consumers experienced identity theft between 2019 and 2020. And over the past two years, 37% of Americans experienced application fraud (i.e., the unauthorized use…
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