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Spam and phishing in 2020

SecureList

The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb The Kaspersky Anti-Phishing component blocked 434,898,635 attempts at accessing scam sites. The most frequent targets of phishing attacks were online stores (18.12 Agentb malware family. Trends of the year.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. NetScout: Observed 13,142,840 DDoS attacks, including: 104,216 video gaming enterprise attacks. 20,551 gambling industry attacks.

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Top 7 Cloud Storage Security Issues & Risks (+ Mitigations)

eSecurity Planet

Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. 8 Common Cloud Storage Security Risks & Mitigations Cloud storage risks include misconfiguration, data breaches, insecure interfaces, DDoS attacks, malware, insider threats, encryption issues, and patching issues.

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Best Internet Security Suites & Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Antivirus Software WiFi 6 Routers Virtual Private Networks Password Managers Email Security Software Web Application Firewall Bot Management Software. Antivirus Software. Also Read: 4 Best Antivirus Software of 2022. Key Features of Antivirus Software. Best Antivirus Protection for Consumers. Back to top.

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Phishers prefer Tesla, top 3 malware strains in Coronavirus phishing campaigns

Security Affairs

Group-IB’s CERT-GIB analyzed hundreds of coronavirus -related phishing emails and discovered top malware strains in COVID-19 campaigns. Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team ( CERT-GIB ) analyzed hundreds of coronavirus-related phishing emails between February 13 and April 1, 2020. Spyware: the most likely COVID-19 payload.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks. Implement rate limiting to harden against DDoS and DNS tunneling attacks. Anti-DDoS configurations can enhance server architecture DDoS to protect DNS. Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 381

Security Affairs

Twilio hackers also breached the food delivery firm DoorDash Unprecedented cyber attack hit State Infrastructure of Montenegro Threat actor abuses Genshin Impact Anti-Cheat driver to disable antivirus Critical flaw impacts Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center Iran-linked Mercury APT exploited Log4Shell in SysAid Apps for initial access GoldDragon (..)

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