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Meta has rolled out a new way to control how Instagram tracks your web activity.

Activity Off-Meta Technologies (formerly known as Off-Facebook Activity) and Transfer Your Information were previously available for Facebook are now available for Instagram as well.

Activity Off-Meta Technologies allows you to control what information from your web activity is shared with Meta by third parties. 

Within the app, you can review the businesses that you might visit that are sharing data with Meta, for instance Airbnb, and then decide if you’d like to disconnect specific sites from your account or clear the data entirely. That data is used to show you relevant ads, so it might be something you’d like to keep in place. That said, if you’re like me and are highly susceptible to a targeted…

DETROIT – United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today that law enforcement in the United States has worked jointly in support of an international takedown of a virtual private network (VPN), dubbed “Operation Nova.”  Domain names offered by an organization engaged in “bulletproof hosting” that provided assistance to cyber-criminals were seized, and related servers were shut down. U.S.-based servers used in the scheme were taken offline by U.S. authorities, while International partners did the same.

Schneider was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Timothy Waters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Detroit.

The coordinated effort was led by the German Reutlingen Police Headquarters together with Europol, the FBI and other law…

Organizations’ on-premise and cloud-based servers are compromised, abused and rented out as part of a sophisticated criminal monetization lifecycle, Trend Micro research finds.

The findings come from a report looking at how the underground hosting market operates. The findings show that cryptocurrency mining activity should be the indicator for IT security teams to be on high alert.

Cryptomining activity used to monetize compromised servers

While cryptomining activity may not cause disruption or financial losses on its own, mining software is usually deployed to monetize compromised servers that are sitting idle while criminals plot larger money-making schemes. These include exfiltrating valuable data, selling server access for further abuse, or preparing for a targeted