CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A solid cybersecurity posture is only as strong as its policies, backups and disaster plans. The first line of defense against ransomware involves simply educating employees through ongoing programs that keep awareness fresh and top of mind.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Apart from taking over bank accounts, TrickBot has been instrumental in spreading ransomware across multiple healthcare organizations, and critical infrastructure in the US, especially during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. This should include restoring from backups, client outreach, and reporting to law enforcement among others.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

of polled executives report that their organizations' accounting and financial data were targeted by cyber adversaries.” ” And, “Nearly half (48.8%) of C-suite and other executives expect the number and size of cyber events targeting their organizations’ accounting and financial data to increase in the year ahead.”

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As we mentioned in the previous part, there are six major data types; credit card and payment information, credentials of accounts, government secrets, personally identifiable information (PII), corporate intellectual Property (IP), and critical infrastructure data. The second scenario is about account credentials.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Although this transaction was absolutely transparent and traceable, it did not allow the account holder to be traced, precisely because of the typical peculiarities of digital currency: anonymity, transparency, speed and non-repudiation. In fact, the familiar red lock screen launched by the @WanaDecryptor@.exe How did the contagion stop?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2023

Latest email security trends Phishing and spear-phishing attacks: Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where cybercriminals use deceptive emails to trick recipients into divulging sensitive information or downloading malware. These attacks often rely on social engineering tactics and email spoofing.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

DarkReading Twitter account has more than 200k followers, a very solid number for the cybersecurity industry. Security Through Education Security Through Education is one of the best information security blogs. The main focus here is the social side of data loss. Here you can find more than 20 news articles each week.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 23, 2021

IABs are financially motivated individuals or groups who provide ransomware operators with access to a silently compromised network in exchange for receiving a small fee or direct employment from ransomware operators [5] (T1078 Valid Accounts, T113 External Remote Services). lafand wbadmin to delete any backups . References.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As we mentioned in a previous blog , hackers come in many forms, but their methods can generally be classified into three distinct types of cybercriminals: The Impersonator – Hackers that pretend to be others, often using social engineering and human psychology to trick users. Let’s look at a few primary examples.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The growing risks leave us with the fact that cybersecurity education is not a matter of choice anymore – it’s a matter of necessity. In case you want to train your employees, you may need to use a company account to be able to set scheduled lessons for your staff. to $199 for business accounts.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There have been some very high profile data breaches in the last couple of years, all of which have cost thousands of dollars of damage and a severe blow to the reputation of the company involved: In late 2014, hackers stole the account information of over 500 million Yahoo email accounts.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The security measures they take (or don’t), the educational opportunities they provide (or fail to) and their commitment to innovation (or lack thereof) will likely separate the winners from the losers in the year ahead. Businesses will need to account for that. These put all of us in new situations we’ve never encountered before.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The sharp increase in ransomware attacks can be attributed to many reasons, from the low level of cyber hygiene of some enterprises to insufficient training and education of employees and patch management issues, according to Derek Manky, chief of security insights and global threat alliances for Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

By offering insights into previous traffic, this technique improves threat detection, troubleshooting, and overall security by enabling for educated decision-making and proactive optimization of firewall configurations. Prioritize testing updates in a controlled environment to confirm compatibility and backup configurations before deploying.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ongoing education and skill development requires educating teams and ensuring employees become proactive contributors to organizational defense. Focus on implementing robust backup and disaster recovery plans, user training, and the sharing of threat intelligence. I really feel as though the bad guys have the upper hand.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Outlook account settings contain important information essential for your inbox to operate properly. Restoring this data in case of loss might take much time especially when you have multiple accounts. This article describes several ways to backup Outlook account settings in great detail. How do I backup my Outlook rules?

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Ransomware, a definition Ransomware is a set of malware technologies, hacking techniques, and social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use to cause harm, breach data, and render data unusable. Ransomware attackers get into a network in many ways: Social engineering. Protect your backup systems.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Ryuk ransoms, paid in cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, were split into smaller portions and then forwarded on to multiple cryptocurrency wallets and then placed into exchange accounts for other forms of currency. This should include restoring from backups, client outreach, and reporting to law enforcement among others.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2023

Latest email security trends Phishing and spear-phishing attacks: Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where cybercriminals use deceptive emails to trick recipients into divulging sensitive information or downloading malware. These attacks often rely on social engineering tactics and email spoofing.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. For malicious keyloggers outside your organization, initial access to a device or user’s account would be necessary. User education is one of the most powerful tools for preventing malicious mobile apps.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Services—a catch-all term encompassing service-providing sectors such as transportation, travel, finance, health, education, information, government, and a myriad of other industries—was targeted the most by cybercriminals. In education, several colleges and K–12 districts were crippled by ransomware. Noteworthy May attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

The gist was that anyone using or adding SMS 2FA to their account would have to buy a subscription to Twitter Blue for $8 per month to continue to use the feature. If you make it too easy – sending one-time passcodes via SMS – hackers will find ways around this using SIM jacking, man-in-the middle attacks, or bogus account resets.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Social engineering attacks: These involve manipulating individuals to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems. MiTM attacks allow attackers to eavesdrop, modify, or steal sensitive information, such as financial account information or login credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Security infrastructure and redundancy: Check the vendor’s data centers, network architecture, backup and disaster recovery plans, and uptime assurances.

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Cisco Security

JULY 14, 2021

For example, they will compromise backup systems so that administrators cannot use them to restore data. Oftentimes, phishing and social engineering are used to steal credentials and/or get employees to click on a malicious link or attachment. Store backups offline so they cannot be found by cyber intruders.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. You have all this data, you have the logs coming out from network vulnerability scanners, you might have recordings made of social engineering attempts and that sort of thing.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. You have all this data, you have the logs coming out from network vulnerability scanners, you might have recordings made of social engineering attempts and that sort of thing.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Imagine for a moment that your employee uses one password to access their social media profiles and to sign in to their Office 365 corporate account. To ensure that your data is safe, get a backup for Office 365. Backup your data with professional backup services. This approach puts your data at a huge risk.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Phishing: Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where cybercriminals trick people into giving away sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. It includes various security measures such as access control, encryption, and backups. It includes viruses, worms, and Trojans.

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Spinone

MARCH 20, 2019

The best technology cannot account for the actions and specifically the mistakes that humans can make which may totally undermine the solution that technology provides. Security awareness training can help to educate end users on the various ways attackers utilize to compromise end user systems.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Organizations today must account for every contingency when it comes to customer data and any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in its possession. While public cloud vendors provide rudimentary backups, getting access to those backups is not an easy process.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

While Office 365 automatically disables macros to prevent malware from entering the system, Cerber uses social engineering to trick the user into bypassing this security feature. However these examples do not mean that using the cloud for backup and collaboration is riskier than confining all software to in-house.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

Some estimates of the damages exceed one billion dollars, taking into account data loss, service outages, disrupted operations, and recovery. That is why hackers use social engineering tricks to pressure victims into paying a ransom. In fact, only 25% of home users have automatic weekly backups. Use antivirus.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I should also say that this when it does happen and again it's extremely, extremely rare when it does happen, It almost always involves some kind of social engineering. Vamosi: So let's first ground ourselves in a common definition of what is and what is not stalkerware. Maybe that's something they entered into unintentionally.

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