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

The Last Watchdog

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. File encryption 2013 – 2015.

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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. What is an exploit kit, exactly?

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Top 5 Industries Most Vulnerable to Data Breaches in 2023

Security Boulevard

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. That’s the precise figure recently disclosed by the FBI — the true damage is almost certainly a lot steeper, given only a portion of cyber crimes ever get reported to law enforcement. Cyber hygiene isn’t difficult. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35

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Mapping CVEs and ATT&CK Framework TTPs: An Empirical Approach

NopSec

CAPEC attack patterns are classified into 6 “Domains” and 9 “Mechanisms” of Attack. and affects Microsoft Exchange Server software versions between 2013 and 2019 with cumulative updates. The framework allows insight into cyber attack elements chaining to achieve a malicious end goal.

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Growing Cyber Threats to the Energy and Industrial Sectors

NopSec

But this obscures the fact that energy and industrial companies are attacked on a daily basis by actors as diverse as hacktivists and nation states, using digital weaponry like open source to tools that cost millions of dollars to produce or procure. A cyber attack can disrupt business functions, which has an impact on end-users.

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Charming Kitten APT is targeting Iranian dissidents in Germany

Security Affairs

The Charming Kitten group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. The cyber spies used social media to gather information on the targets and as a vector for social engineering attacks.