Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2021

Threat Report Portugal Q4 2020: Data related to Phishing and malware attacks based on the Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d. The submissions were classified as either phishing or malware. Phishing and Malware Q4 2020. These kinds of malware come from Brazil and the attacks are disseminated via phishing campaigns.

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Webroot

AUGUST 27, 2021

Already in 2020, according to the report: 2,4000 governmental agencies, healthcare facilities and schools had been hit with ransomware $350 million had been paid out ransomware actors, a 311% increase over 2019 It was taking 287 days on average for a business to fully recover from a ransomware attack.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

This creates a major gap in security awareness, considering the 65,000 ransomware attacks deployed in the U.S. In 2019, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) outlined the biggest health IT security gaps facing provider organizations, in response to Sen.

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The number of ransomware attacks has increased by 18% , while the worldwide volume of phishing attacks doubled to 500 million in 2022. In this article, we’ll discuss the importance of data security and protection. Cybercrime is on the rise. And those attacks are costing companies a lot of money. In 2022, American businesses lost $10.3

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

LODEINFO has been observed engaged in a spear- phishing campaign since December 2019 by JPCERT/CC. They observed another spear-phishing campaign in March 2022. The malicious Word documents contained fake security notices that invited the victims to “Enable Editing” and “Enable Content,” which executes malicious VBA code.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

The news raised some eyebrows, because Carnival has been hit by multiple cyberattacks since 2019, including a ransomware incident last summer. Just as cruise lines are starting to book trips after a long shutdown because of COVID-19, Carnival faces yet another cybersecurity issue, said Erich Kron, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2022

However, irrespective of age and purpose, everyone who uses it should know how to identify a phishing website. This saves them from getting trapped in consent phishing and other phishing attack types. According to the FBI’s 2019 Internet Crime […].

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

Security awareness advocate says 'check your emotions'. KnowBe4 Security Awareness Advocate Erich Kron is an expert in this space. Here's an example of a phishing email your employees might receive that uses greed to try to get them to click a link. And fear is what convinced employees to transfer $18.6

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Threat Report Portugal Q3 2020: Data related to Phishing and malware attacks based on the Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d. The campaigns were classified as either phishing or malware. Phishing and Malware Q3 2020. From Figure 2, January presented a total of 15 phishing campaigns, 29 in February and 46 during March.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Security breaches have increased by 67% in the last five years , per the WEF. billion to cybercriminals in 2019, according to the FBI. worldwide in 2019, according to a Ponemon Institute survey. Security awareness training educates employees about cybersecurity best practices and alerts them to new threats.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The plummeting price of Bitcoin in 2018, combined with the growth of users’ overall security awareness and better protection practices, caused ransomware operators to rethink their strategies. The logic of the raid mainly comes down to using unsecured RDP ports or spear-phishing to infiltrate networks and gain a foothold in them.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss this war of attrition with Will LaSala, director of security services and security evangelist at OneSpan, a Chicago-based provider of anti-fraud, e-signature and digital identity solutions to 2,000 banks worldwide. And that allows us to do more security awareness.”.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Standard phishing tactics – Phishing techniques include website spoofing emails appearing to come from an official source asking you to reset your password or confirm personal data. After clicking the link and entering the info, your security is compromised. Milbourne is also a big advocate of security awareness training.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

The BlackCat ransomware that caused headaches for over 60 organizations worldwide is now decryptable, thanks to the effort of security researchers. The ransomware, first spotted in the wild in October 2019, can now be decrypted […]. Yes, you read that correctly.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

The personal information of 11 million UK Facebook profiles were been found on a hackers website , with the social media giant seemingly dismissing the significance of the data within a statement, " This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019".

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

From direct assaults on passwords via brute force attacks and password spraying to email phishing, ransomware and social engineering campaigns that act as precursors to credential stuffing attacks, adversaries are well aware that the path of least resistance almost always involves the compromising of a password.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

(The first is Ransom.Sodinokibi , which Malwarebytes has already profiled and has been detecting since 2019.). In the case of phishing campaigns, Wizard Spider and its affiliates have been known to use legitimate Google document URLs in the email body. Focus on cyber security awareness and training.

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Cytelligence

JANUARY 14, 2020

While we saw the threat landscape change in 2019 with even more sophisticated attacks, we predict 2020 to be even more extreme. More targeted ransomware – 2019 saw ransomware exploits getting highly targeted against specific businesses, as well as local government. Cyber Security Awareness Training . Eradication.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

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. The issue is that users can’t always spot a phishing attempt. brooke.crothers.

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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Today’s columnist, Rob Shavell of Abine, points out that better employee training about deepfake technology can possibly stop the famous 2019 case where a UK executive was duped by phone into transferring $200,000+ to a Hungarian bank, but companies also need to do a better job of managing the personal information of employees.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

According to the report, there were 408 publicly disclosed cyber incidents affecting school districts last year – 18% more than in 2019. Kacey Sensenich, chief technology officer at Rockingham County Schools (25 schools, 11,691 students in the 2019-2020 school year), ran up against an Emotet trojan infection in December 2017.

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BH Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

Strengthening security awareness stops scapegoating staff for shortcomings. A time of upheaval in the way we work has meant employees to follow the right security behaviours in vastly different circumstances. The 2021 SANS Security Awareness Report offers an interesting look back over the past year.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

Furthermore, from 2019–2023E, approximately USD 5.2 Whilst this is concerning, when talking to executives outside of security, like I did on a recent masterclass with Nowcomm , it’s vital they understand of the following: 1. IBM found that the average time to identify a breach in 2019 was 206 days. billion by 2022.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2022

We should not be focused so much on the organization’s Return on investment or Return on asset around security spending; we should consider for a moment that with every significant security awareness training, every adaptive control, and every security policy only makes the task “of being hacked” even more expensive for the cybercriminals.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2 – It demonstrates the importance of security awareness training for your employees! Justice Department announces more than 70 indictments and 125 convictions or arrests for phishing, hacking, spamming and other Internet fraud as part of Operation CyberSweep. . I love it for a few reasons. #1 billion dollars in damages.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 9, 2019

Alternatively, they can use a phishing attack to steal employees account credentials and abuse them to steal sensitive corporate and/or customer data. The question is: are organizations even aware of these and other risks posed by cloud apps? Measuring Organizations’ Risk Awareness. But that’s not for a lack of awareness.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 31, 2021

Ryuk ransomware typically gains entry to the targeted organization with a phishing email advising the recipient to download a Microsoft Office document riddled with malware or click a link leading to a malicious site. The fallout from Ryuk ransomware attacks has been catastrophic. Safeguarding your data.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

SaaS/Application Security: Application Audit Software Employees download and use hundreds of third-party apps and extensions every day. Logically, by reducing the number of phishing emails your employees get, you decrease the likelihood of employees clicking on the link. Don’t know where to look for the right software?

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 1, 2021

For example, a group known as Cosmic Lynx, who’ve been operating since April 2019, meticulously research their M&A targets, craft their email campaigns and set up a secondary email chain that appears to be from a major law firm who is brokering the deal. Now the payoffs from an attacker’s perspective can be huge.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Since 2019, this ransomware has been advertised on underground forums and has a strong reputation as a RaaS operator. The group’s first activity was observed in April 2019 after the shutdown of GandCrab, another now-defunct ransomware gang. The merchants. The first one is the REvil (aka Sodinokibi) gang.

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SecureList

JULY 19, 2023

msg VT First Submission 2022-10-25 10:00:00 UTC UNC path 168.205.200.55test (reminder time set to 2019-02-17 19:00) Sent by: 168.205.200.55 on 2022-04-14 10:35:39 UTC Celebration.msg VT First Submission 2022-05-18 07:26:26 UTC UNC path 101.255.119.42maila5b3553d (reminder time set to 2020-04-07 11:30) Sent by: 101.255.119.42

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Georgia Bafoutsou of ENISA, the EU’s information security agency, called on those attending to amplify messages about security awareness. Using humour to deliver a serious message, she said social engineering tests done badly can foster a “toxic” security culture. Making security easy: the UX challenge.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

“Cyber Security is so much more than a matter of IT.” ” ― Stephane Nappo The amount of compromised data in August 2019 composed 114,686,290 breached records. Given that phishing accounts for 90% of data breaches , this simulation must be a part of every company’s security education.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Credentials—like usernames, email addresses, and passwords—often find their way into the wrong hands through various means, from malware and phishing attacks to simple user negligence. Stage 1: Stealing Your Credentials Credentials can be compromised through data breaches, user negligence, phishing attacks, infostealers, and weak passwords.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Credentials—like usernames, email addresses, and passwords—often find their way into the wrong hands through various means, from malware and phishing attacks to simple user negligence. Stage 1: Stealing Your Credentials Credentials can be compromised through data breaches, user negligence, phishing attacks, infostealers, and weak passwords.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

IBM’s “ 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report ” details the costs that come from a data breach as a result of various cybersecurity risks. percent in 2019. In the 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report , it was found that the average breach lifecycle was considerable. This was up from 27.9 million vs. $4.56

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 8, 2021

Moreover, it should be noted that the Russian-based REvil hacker group has been active since April 2019 and provides ransomware as a service. Did a risk or security analyst out there have enough political capital to recommend avoiding the service provider to a business owner who actually took the advice?

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