Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 31, 2023

C-suites across all industries, from traditional finance to the latest “unicorns” emerging in the fintech industry, are facing a formidable challenge: how to protect their business and customer data against growing cyber threats. As a CISO or ITDM, the cyber defence challenges you face in your business couldn’t be tougher.

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BH Consulting

MAY 23, 2023

Repetition can lead people to over-disclose information, that could then put them at risk of identity theft and cybercrime. MORE Threat Prompt newsletter covers the intersection between AI and infosec. MORE The National Cyber Security Index ranks countries’ cyber threat readiness.

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Artificial Intelligence Identity Theft Social Engineering InfoSec 52

Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The CISA ‘s Joint Cyber Defense Collective (JCDC) initiative is going to build operation plans for protecting and responding to cyber threats. What comes to mind when you think of cyber criminals? Those days are behind us, however, as cybercrime is establishing itself as a business in and of itself.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The STYX marketplace was launched at the beginning of 2023. FIs need to be proactive in protecting their networks and customer data from cyber threats. Beyond institutional cybersecurity, FIs must also evolve their anti-money-laundering (AML), KYC, fraud prevention, and cyber units beyond yesterday’s divisional silos.

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Banking Cybercrime Accountability Risk 78

Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

Traditionally, cybersecurity has been a reactive game: We respond to cyber threats as they arise, analyze the incidents, add pertinent information to “deny lists”, and update stakeholders on “what happened.” Cost Efficiency According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 , the global average cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2023

The role of an initial access broker is essential in the cybercrime ecosystem, these actors facilitate the sale or exchange of compromised or stolen initial access to computer networks or systems. Searchlight Cyber threat intelligence researchers also observed threat actors discussing and offering access to ICS and OT systems.

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Energy and Utilities Cybercrime Data collection VPN 89

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In 2023, small businesses experienced a 424-percent increase in breaches, and half of all SMBs reported suffering at least one attack. While antivirus software is an essential tool for protecting against malware and other cyber threats, it does not protect against these attacks.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As we move towards the end of 2022, now is the time to take a look back at the major trends from the last eleven months and identify what might happen from a cyber threat perspective in 2023. A key for analysts is to remain flexible and not compartmentalize cyber threats.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

Cybercrime: An Equal Opportunity Player When the media covers a cyber attack, the victim is usually a large and high-profile enterprise, a federal government agency, a popular app, or an international hotel chain. Source: AV-Test 2023 ) “HYAS has increased our overall productivity for both our company and our security team.

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DNS Small Business Cyber Attacks Antivirus 59

Digital Shadows

JANUARY 18, 2023

This blog focuses on ransomware activity in Q4 2022, based on primary and secondary source reporting. We’ll talk major ransomware trends and events, vulnerable sectors and regions, and what to expect in the first quarter of 2023. The blog we linked to above has some great tips for how to harden your service accounts.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Phishing Threats Are Increasing in Scale and Sophistication Phishing remains one of the most dangerous and widespread cybersecurity threats. Source: IBM Security: Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023) According to recent research, the number of phishing attacks vastly outpaces all other cyber threats.

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Cyber attacks featured in the top five risks for the year ahead, along with factors like extreme weather and the cost of living crisis. It also predicts that organised gangs will use cybercrime more, because it offers easy money for lower risk. MORE 15 open source security tools you can use to protect against threats.

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Passwords Surveillance Risk Data breaches 52

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

28, 2023, researchers at the Chinese security firm DarkNavy published a blog post purporting to show evidence that a major Chinese ecommerce company’s app was using this same three-exploit chain to read user data stored by other apps on the affected device, and to make its app nearly impossible to remove. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Protect Your Organization from Cybercrime-as-a-Service Attacks madhav Thu, 10/12/2023 - 04:53 In years gone by, only large enterprises needed to be concerned with cybercrime. However, Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) offerings have essentially democratized cybercrime. What is Cybercrime-as-a-Service?

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