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What Is An Exploit Kit? Beware This All-In-One Approach For Launching A Cyberattack

SiteLock

An exploit kit is a pre-assembled product that bad actors can purchase to quickly and easily execute cyber attacks. You can think of it as a convenient toolbox with everything someone would need to find vulnerabilities in a browser, software, or operating system—and then launch an attack. Homing in on the target. on our blog.

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Is The Cost Of Predictive Cyber Security Worth The Investment?

Security Boulevard

With the advancement by BitDefender to come out with machine learning with the Anti-virus in 2006 along with Cisco, FireEye, Checkpoint, etc. Predictable recovery after cyber attacks helps organizations with lessons learned along with driving a business case for more investment from the board of directors. This was in 2005!

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors. None of these early threats went pro.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.