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Much of our financial life has long since shifted from the physical world to the digital. Banking apps, digital wallets, online payments, and cryptocurrencies are all 21st-century innovations that make financial transactions faster and more accessible than ever before, opening up all kinds of hitherto unimaginable   show more ...  

opportunities. But this convenience has a downside: our digital finances are vulnerable to digital crimes. Then again, thats only true if you neglect protecting your online finances from cybercriminals. This post takes a look at how Kaspersky technologies and products secure your digital money, and thus your financial well-being. 1. Password Manager The backbone of all account security — and financial services are no exception — is, of course, your password. The weaker it is, the greater the chances of a successful hack on your account in some online store or payment system where you enter card details. Its just as dangerous to use the same password for different online services. If you do, then if theres a password leak on one of them (all too common, sadly), your accounts with other services will be compromised as well. Hackers are well aware that many people use the same character combinations on multiple sites, so they often use leaked passwords to try to log in to other resources, a technique known as credential stuffing. And naturally, their focus tends to be on money-related services. Using Kaspersky Password Manager radically improves password security and to keep your financial accounts safe. Our app generates unique, maximum-security passwords for every service you use, stores them safely so theres no need to remember them, and even warns you about leaks. Incidentally, the latest update of Kaspersky Password Manager has added the ability to generate one-time codes for two-factor authentication. And you get it for free with Kaspersky Plus and Kaspersky Premium subscriptions. 2. Safe Money Safe Money was designed specifically for enabling secure financial transactions and online purchases. To protect important payment data entered on the websites of banks, payment systems, and online stores — including bank card numbers and passwords — our solution prompts you to open such sites in our Protected Browser. In this special mode, your confidential data is protected to the max. And if a site seems fishy in any way at all, Protected Browser warns you with a notification and a change of the frame color from safe green to yellow. With Safe Money, you can do online shopping and banking safely in the knowledge that both your money and personal data are fully protected. This feature is included in all our paid subscriptions:Kaspersky Standard, Kaspersky Plus, and Kaspersky Premium. 3. File Anti-Virus Of course, one of the central components of our multi-layered financial protection is good old Anti-Virus. This is what protects your money from the most dangerous threat: malware, in particular, so-called stealers, which, after infecting the target device, look for passwords and private keys to cryptocurrency wallets stored on it, then send them straight to the cyberthieves. Another common threat directly related to finances that File Anti-Virus guards against is banking Trojans. These are viruses that overlay a banking apps interface with its own and cant only steal passwords but also intercept one-time confirmation codes, as well as substitute details and amounts of transfers and payments, allowing the cybercriminals to siphon off money. These two threats alone are reason enough for you to install reliable protection on all devices you use for financial transactions. There are plenty of other dangers that Anti-Virus also protects against, such as ransomware Trojans and spyware to name just a couple. 4. Safe Browsing Note that it might not be your computer or smartphone thats infected with malware, but the server youre interacting with. The first threat to worry about in this scenario would be online skimmers — malware that scammers install on hacked online stores in order to harvest customers bank card details. Web skimmers have become very popular with cybercriminals of late — every year, tens of thousands of online stores are found to be infected with malware of this kind. Often, the owners of compromised stores are either unaware of the infection or take no action to neutralize a threat, so a web skimmer might remain active on an infected site for months. In practical terms, this means that even if you personally have been careful and your devices are all clean, you can still fall victim to cybercriminals simply by interacting with an infected website. Fortunately, we also have a solution to protect you from web skimmers and other threats: Safe Browsing scans the pages loaded by your browser for malicious code and, if detected, warns you that the site is unsafe. 5. Anti-Phishing and Fraud Prevention Theres no way we can skip over fake and fraudulent websites, which affect a huge number of internet users every year. These can be cloned sites mimicking banks, payment systems, crypto exchanges, or other financial services that trick visitors out of their credentials and then hijack their accounts. They can also be online scams promising large payouts in exchange for a small commission, fake online stores with tempting prices that never deliver your purchase, or other types of online fraud. The problem is that sites of this kind usually dont directly contain any malicious code. To effectively protect against such threats, our experts work day and night to keep our database of phishing and fraudulent sites up to date. As a result, our solutions give you a heads-up in good time whenever danger is near.

 Malware and Vulnerabilities

CherryBlos is a family of Android malware that can steal cryptocurrency by extracting sensitive information from photos on a user's phone. This includes details related to cryptocurrency wallets, such as recovery phrases.

 Trends, Reports, Analysis

The industries most frequently targeted by Asian APT groups include government, industrial, healthcare, IT, agriculture, and energy sectors, emphasizing the importance of tailored security measures for these industries.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6286-01 - An update for Red Hat Data Grid is now available. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link in the References section. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6272-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.11.53 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6264-01 - An update for insights-client is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6251-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization release 4.11.7 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6248-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization release 4.12.8 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

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Ubuntu Security Notice 6473-1 - It was discovered that urllib3 didn't strip HTTP Authorization header on cross-origin redirects. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It was discovered that urllib3 didn't   show more ...  

strip HTTP Cookie header on cross-origin redirects. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.

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Debian Linux Security Advisory 5550-1 - Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cacti, a web interface for graphing of monitoring systems, which could result in cross-site scripting, SQL injection, an open redirect or command injection.

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The !CVE Project is an initiative to track and identify security issues that are not acknowledged by vendors but still are important for the security community.

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Process failures are the root cause of most serious cybersecurity incidents. We need to treat security as a process issue, not try to solve it with a collection of tools.

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is malicious cyber activity orchestrated by two prominent Chinese nation-state hacking groups targeting 24 Cambodian government organizations. "This activity is believed to be part of a long-term espionage campaign," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers said in a report last week. "The observed activity aligns with geopolitical goals of

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Malaysian law enforcement authorities have announced the takedown of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called BulletProofLink. The Royal Malaysia Police said the effort, which was carried out with assistance from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on November 6, 2023, was based on information that the threat actors behind the platform

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Cybersecurity researchers have warned about a Windows version of a wiper malware that was previously observed targeting Linux systems in cyber attacks aimed at Israel. Dubbed BiBi-Windows Wiper by BlackBerry, the wiper is the Windows counterpart of BiBi-Linux Wiper, which has been put to use by a pro-Hamas hacktivist group in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war last month. "The Windows variant [...

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The threat actors behind a new ransomware group called Hunters International have acquired the source code and infrastructure from the now-dismantled Hive operation to kick-start its own efforts in the threat landscape. "It appears that the leadership of the Hive group made the strategic decision to cease their operations and transfer their remaining assets to another group, Hunters

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Effective marketing operations today are driven by the use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Marketing apps such as Salesforce, Hubspot, Outreach, Asana, Monday, and Box empower marketing teams, agencies, freelancers, and subject matter experts to collaborate seamlessly on campaigns and marketing initiatives.  These apps serve as the digital command centers for marketing

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