Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

As a new semester begins, we at Cisco Duo want to share some findings and trends pertaining to threat activity we have seen across higher education customers. In analyzing de-identified customer data over the latter half of 2023, we found a pattern of threat activity targeting multiple universities using shared attack infrastructure.

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Education Authentication Passwords Phishing 119

Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Passwords are a weak point in modern-day secure authentication practices, with Verizon highlighting that almost 50% of breaches start with compromised credentials. In our previous two features, we covered the dangers of phishing (one method of credential compromise) and how to mitigate its impact on users.

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Authentication Passwords Data breaches Phishing 113

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Adam Darrah , director of threat intelligence, ZeroFox. This actor lowered the price from 6 BTC to $200,000 and caused quite a stir for a few hours because they forgot to put the letter ‘K’ after the number 200, resulting in almost everyone who saw the posting trying to buy the data. Could be phished credentials.

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Mobile Data breaches Authentication Accountability 306

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device. ” or “ Tmo up! ” message to channel participants.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

With each passing year, cybersecurity threats grow more prevalent, advanced, and ominous for your business. However, your organization can prepare for various types of cybersecurity threats and attacks so as to limit their cause. Cyber threats exist in many different types and forms. The average cost of lost business was $1.42

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Risk Cybersecurity Penetration Testing Data breaches 52

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite the rapid evolution of what constitutes the users, assets, and connections, the fundamentals of networking security remain the same: block external threats, protect internal network communications, monitor the network for internal and external threats, and ensure that users only access authorized parts of the network.

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Network Security Firewall Penetration Testing Encryption 98

SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. We identified targets of CosmicStrand, which we attribute to an unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor, in China, Vietnam, Iran and Russia. Non-mobile statistics. Mobile statistics. Targeted attacks.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Cryptocurrency 100