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BEST PRACTICES: Mock phishing attacks prep employees to avoid being socially engineered

The Last Watchdog

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. Lucy’s’s software allows companies to easily set-up customizable mock attacks to test employees’ readiness to avoid phishing, ransomware and other attacks with a social engineering component.

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Phishing campaign leverages Google Translate as camouflage

Security Affairs

Crooks leverage Google Translate service as camouflage on mobile browsers in a phishing campaign aimed at stealing Google account and Facebook credentials. Cashdollar (@_larry0) February 5, 2019. These phishing emails pose as alerts sent by Google that inform users that their accounts were accessed from a new Windows device.

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Kimsuky APT exploited BlueKeep RDP flaw in attacks against South Korea and Japan

Security Affairs

While investigating a security breach, the AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) researchers discovered a North Korea-linked group Kimsuky ‘s campaign, tracked as Larva-24005. “In some systems, initial access was gained through exploiting the RDP vulnerability (BlueKeep, CVE-2019-0708).

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The Future of Data Protection Begins at GITEX 2019

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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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A week in security (June 28 – June 4)

Malwarebytes

Researchers explore the insecure world of the subdomain (Source: Can i take your subdomain) Cyber insurance model is broken, consider banning ransomware payments (Source: The Register) How facial recognition solutions can safeguard the hybrid workplace (Source: Help Net Security) Capital One hacker faces fresh charges for 2019 hacking spree (Source: (..)

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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Krebs on Security

An individual thought to be involved has earned accolades from the likes of Apple , Dell , and Microsoft for helping to find and fix security vulnerabilities in their products. In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company.

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A new Astaroth Trojan Campaign uncovered by Microsoft

Security Affairs

See how #MicrosoftDefenderATP next-gen protection defeated the #fileless attack: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) July 8, 2019. The Astaroth Trojan was first spotted by security firm Cofense in late 2018 when it was involved in a campaign targeting Europe and Brazil. .

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