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How To Protect Against A Phishing Attack And How To Counter Them

SiteLock

In this week’s post, we take a look at “in-the-wild” phishing attacks and talk about how to protect against a phishing attack and how to counter them. Phishing Attack Examples. Here are two examples of phishing attacks that were carried out. Data URI and phishing page. Using strong, non-dictionary passwords.

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Phishers make a date with your calendar apps

Malwarebytes

Calendar to spam in 2009. Calendar app spam leads to phishing pages. According to Bleeping Computer, it’s been abused to send phishing missives. The phish routine ends with that time honoured process of redirecting the phished individual to a real website afterwards.

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Social Security Numbers leaked in ransomware attack on Ohio History Connection

Malwarebytes

During the attack, the cybercriminals may have had access to names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of current and former OHC employees (from 2009 to 2023). Choose a strong password that you don't use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. Watch out for fake vendors.

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RockYou2021: largest password compilation of all time leaked online with 8.4 billion entries

Security Affairs

An example of leaked passwords included in the RockYou2021 compilation: With a collection that exceeds its 12-year-old namesake by more than 262 times, this leak is comparable to the Compilation of Many Breaches (COMB) , the largest data breach compilation ever. Watch out for incoming spam emails, unsolicited texts, and phishing messages.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Focuses on People

SecureWorld News

They are working from home, managing through the pandemic and looking for vaccination info. For Charlet, the 2009 Operation Aurora cyberattack on Google was a watershed moment for the company. For example, how do we discern when an email may be phishing; how do you know what to do and what not to do?". Updating software.

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle backdoor

Security Affairs

The attack chain starts with COVID19-themed spear-phishing messages that contain either a malicious Word attachment or a link to one hosted on company servers. . The experts discovered the custom backdoor while investigating an incident, it was used by attackers for lateral movements and data exfiltration.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

For users familiar with password management and the value of complex passwords, this makes sense. Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel like a password manager. The longer and more complex the encrypted message is, the longer it’ll take to decrypt.