eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Users are strongly recommended to quickly upgrade their Bricks Builder Theme installations to this current version to reduce the risk of exploitation.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Qualys this week launched a new Ransomware Risk Assessment Service that’s designed to help enterprises understand their potential exposure to ransomware and automate the process of patching any associated vulnerabilities or misconfigurations. CVE-2019-1458. December 2019. Qualys Ransomware Risk Assessment dashboard.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

When assessing the overall security of cloud storage and choosing a solution tailored to your business, it helps to determine its features, potential risks, security measures, and other considerations. CSP collaboration improves the security environment where there’s a need to mitigate the emerging risks quickly and comprehensively.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve seen numerous attack campaigns targeting this region come to the surface in 2019 alone. Not all employees are familiar with phishing and other digital threats, for instance. It will now be bringing those solutions with it to GITEX 2019. Cloud Security: The security risks facing organizations in the cloud are rising.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

failing to regularly update your theme, plugin, and core files is a huge security risk. The more administrators a site has, the greater the risk of an attacker executing a brute force attack to compromise the valuable contents within a database. According to the 2019 Verizon Security Report , 34% of breaches involved internal actors.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

An Israeli hacker has been sentenced to 80 months in prison in the US for his role in a massive spear-phishing campaign. The man was arrested in September 2019 while traveling to the U. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, spear-phishing )

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. With the high amount of cybercriminal activity including hacking attempts and phishing scams, the information in this report is quite timely. In comparison, phishing/smishing/vishing cases accounted for $500 in losses per complaint.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2019

A crook involved in a spear phishing scheme and that was in Kenya is facing up to 20 years in the US federal prison for stealing thousands of dollars from US universities. Amil Hassan Raage, 48, pleaded guilty last week in a southern California court to fraudulently receiving almost $750,000 as part of a spear phishing scheme.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

Group-IB , a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, found out that the year of 2019 was marked by ransomware evolution and was dominated by increasingly aggressive ransomware campaigns, with its operators resorting to more cunning TTPs, reminding those of APT groups to get their victims shell out.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Still, Ransomware, zero-day exploits, and phishing attacks, were among the biggest threats facing IT security teams this year. Here are a few trends I expect will dominate cyber security in 2019. The risk will rise and eventually this will cause more issues with a few headlines of devices that were used to hack networks.

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 20, 2023

“ The World Health Organisation, in 2019, recognised burnout as being caused by chronic workplace stress that is not successfully managed. And these changes increase the risk of developing anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. Naturally, attackers take advantage.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Machine Identities, Human Identities, and the Risks They Pose. Human identities are being phished…. This explains the rise in phishing attacks targeting users. According to Help Net Security , the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) detected 260,642 phishing attacks in July 2021. brooke.crothers.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

After Microsoft assigned an “important” rating to a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday, security experts are urging security teams to prioritize updates based on risk rather than vendor severity ratings. impacts Windows Server 2008 through 2019.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

Furthermore, from 2019–2023E, approximately USD 5.2 trillion in global value will be at risk from cyberattacks. That could be through common hacking techniques like phishing, bait and switch, cookie theft, deep fake , password cracking , social engineering , and so on. billion by 2022. Human error causes many data breaches.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Group-IB uncovered a new sophisticated phishing campaign, tracked as PerSwaysion, against high-level executives of more than 150 companies worldwide. . PerSwaysion is a highly-targeted phishing campaign. New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

Even though, in 2020, we have seen ever more sophisticated cyberattacks, the overall statistics look encouraging: the number of users hit by computer and mobile malware declines, so does financial phishing. Traditionally, the study covers the common phishing threats encountered by users, along with Windows and Android-based financial malware.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Small and midsize businesses — so-called SMBs — face an acute risk of sustaining a crippling cyberattack. This appears to be even more true today than it was when I began writing about business cyber risks at USA TODAY more than a decade ago. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Let’s take a phishing email that one of our colleagues got some time ago as an example to illustrate the most common signs: 1. One of the worst consequences that can happen via phishing emails is lateral movement. So you should be careful and look for other signs we list here. What is Lateral Movement?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Already, three of the big companies were targeted by threat actors who use phishing attacks to spread the malicious OAuth application. Multi factor authentication aka MFA and condition-based access policies deployment will help in mitigating such risks, says the tech giant.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 27, 2021

In the case of LemonDuck, the malware – which has been on the radar since at least 2019 and has been followed by multiple vendor security teams – has become a threat on multiple fronts, according to the Microsoft security researchers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

“This overview is intended to help the cybersecurity community reduce the risk presented by these threats.” “This overview is intended to help the cybersecurity community reduce the risk presented by these threats.” ” reads the joint alert. ” reads the joint alert.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The issue is that these tens of billions of new devices will likely amplify the inherent security risks of IoT. Vulnerable devices could be used to spread malware within the enterprise, used for corporate espionage, surveillance of personnel, or plan whaling phishing campaigns. billion in number and generate 79.4

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We need to work with many different teammates on campus — risk management, legal, compliance and institutional review boards, to name a few — to effectively manage cybersecurity risk across our communities. They see the investment in MFA as critical to a campus cybersecurity program and managing risk for a campus.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2024

After a data breach in 2023 Cerebral disclosed that it had been using invisible pixel trackers from Google, Meta (Facebook), TikTok, and other third parties on its online services since October 2019. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. Watch out for fake vendors. Take your time.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The research in this report is a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the threat landscape. Phishing: In 2021, 8.2% of users were hit by phishing. of all phishing schemes in 2021, compared to the 11.1%

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SecureWorld News

MAY 27, 2021

This year in particular NASA has experienced an uptick in cyber threats: phishing attempts have doubled and malware attacks have increased exponentially during the COVID-19 pandemic and the concomitant move to telework for much of the NASA workforce. Pervasive weaknesses exist in NASA IT internal controls and risk management practices.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the United States, the FBI report indicates that there was a 69% increase in total complaints in comparison with 2019. Social engineering and phishing attacks are the most common vector. In Singapore, ransomware attacks marked a 154% rise compared to 2019. Every country, in every part of the world, is reporting that.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 17, 2023

But your strategy is incomplete if you only secure the perimeter and do not address internal risks. End users with privileged access present unique risks to your network and data. CEO fraud is similar to spear phishing but takes things one step further by first gaining control of an email account of a c-suite employee.

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The post Testimony: There’s No Internet of Things Risk in. » Related Stories Is 2019 Privacy Rights’ Break Out Year? Read the whole entry. »

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

The current focus of most security awareness training initiatives is on phishing – and with good reason. Phishing is responsible for the bulk of breaches. Custom phishing templates and landing pages. Employee engagement to report suspected phishing. Personal and organizational risk scoring. Key Differentiators.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

According to a report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net, over 41 million patient records were breached in 2019, almost tripling healthcare industry breaches from the prior year. The largest privacy incident was reported in 2019 at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a third-party billing and collections company.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 28, 2022

It is actually a developed form of LinkedIn’s 2019 automated anti-abuse defense that helps in tracking down and removing fake profiles before then start interacting with other members with malevolent intentions. Third new security feature will be related to high-risk profiles that can put the entire platform in jeopardy.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2021

In 2019, we published an article about deepfakes and the technology behind them. Among these categories, the following were deemed the highest risk: Audio/video impersonation. Tailored phishing. This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The study identified several potential criminal applications for deepfakes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While remote work has many benefits, it can increase the risk of employees suffering from directed attention fatigue (DAF) , where they find themselves unable to focus due to constant distractions. Even though many consider spam and phishing outdated techniques, they are still employed by cybercriminals today. The data of over 1.2

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Over 90 percent of the users identified by Google were targeted via “credential phishing emails” that attempt to trick victims into providing their password or other account credentials to hijack their Google account. “TAG tracks more than 270 targeted or government-backed groups from more than 50 countries. .”We

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