Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

Avaya introduced Avaya Cloud Office in 2020 and replaced IP Office. Pearce also hijacked accounts of former Avaya employees to generate more license keys and draw suspicion away from him. He also used his privileges to conceal evidence that such accounts were generating keys, leaving Avaya in the dark for years.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

According to our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud Threat Report , on average, 18.8% of consumer PCs in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America were infected during 2020. Comprehensive antivirus protection will also provide password protection for your online accounts through secure encryption. Do I really need antivirus?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

The ransomware operation has been active since late December 2019, this is the second time that the FBI first shares IoC related to RagnarLocker operation, the FBI first became aware of this threat in April 2020. Audit user accounts with administrative privileges and configure access controls with least privilege in mind.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. Source: Verizon DBIR 2020. Then the cardholder authorises that same retailer to bill the cardholder’s stored card account. Encryption.

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Retail Banking Big data Computers and Electronics 143

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020. The cost of ransomware attacks accounts for 21 percent of the overall expenses, while the cost of malicious insider accounts for 15 percent. 6 million annually for organizations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2022

For example, an important finding from the Conti leak was the common reliance of ransomware threat actors on Active Directory for lateral movement within the network using privileged credentials. According to a Check Point study, the industry experienced a 186% increase in weekly ransomware attacks between June 2020 and June 2021.

Healthcare 126

Healthcare Ransomware Authentication Threat Reports 126

Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

An impersonation attack recently made headlines with the 2020 Twitter/Bitcoin scam , in which 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised by outside parties to steal bitcoin. Each one has their own methods and protecting against them requires a multi-layered approach. Let’s look at a few primary examples.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The directive relied heavily on the discretion of individual member states, and lacked the accountability required. What prompted the EU to act is the rapidly expanding threat landscape that places increasing pressure on enterprises to develop the capacity to effectively prepare for and manage a cyber crisis.

Encryption 71

Encryption Risk Cybersecurity Marketing 71

Webroot

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Take heart because, whatever happens, 2020 won’t be easily outdone (knock on wood). Personal devices are often used for work and, as we saw in our 2020 Threat Report, are twice as likely as business devices to encounter infections. Businesses will need to account for that. Looking ahead to 2021.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

BlueNoroff developed an elaborate phishing campaign that targeted startups and distributed malware for stealing all crypto in the account tied to the device. The NaiveCopy campaign, another example of an advanced threat, targeted stock and cryptocurrency investors in South Korea. Now we see that APT actors have also switched to crypto.

Banking 81

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Mobile 81

Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

In 2020 groups were demanding as much as $30 million to unlock a victim’s files and systems. FBI Internet Crime Report 2020: Cybercrime Skyrocketed, with Email Compromise Accounting for 43% of Losses. 2021 Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Ransomware Threat Report: 2020 was a Golden Year for Ransomware Gangs.

Energy and Utilities 120

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Banking Hacking 120

SC Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

“An attacker can recreate the corporate log-in page and deliver a phishing message to the individual that prompts them to log into their account. As part of the blog, Lookout also linked to its Financial Services Threat Report , which was authored by Schless.

Mobile 126

Mobile Phishing Banking Financial Services 126

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 threat report, presented at CyberCrimeCon in Singapore, the size of the carding market grew by 33 percent and amounted to USD 879.7 The source of this data compromise remains unknown.”. million from H2 2017-H1 2018 to H2 2018 – H1 2019.

Marketing 60

Marketing Banking eCommerce Advertising 60

SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Based on our telemetry, the January 2021 indicators do not necessarily represent new intrusions or new malware samples, as the detections were relatively old (between 2018 and 2020), and the Explosive RAT samples did not contain significant modifications. A week later, on August 7, the threat actor posted new evidence of exfiltrated data.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

McKinsey & Company raised the alarm in 2020. Then, they reported 87% of organisations worldwide were already facing a skill gap or would face a severe talent shortage by 2025. Today they account for only 25% of the cybersecurity workforce, a 1% improvement in the last two years. Could it get any worse? Sadly, yes.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud ® Threat Report , we found overall infection rates to be rising fastest in the healthcare, non-profit and arts/entertainment/recreation industries. In fact, the median ransom demand in 2021, according to advanced findings from our upcoming threat report, was $70,000.

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Ransomware Small Business Backups Threat Reports 106

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This report states that 59% of organizations fail to maintain strict user account lifecycle management, leaving credentials that are no longer needed in the environment that can be compromised. It is this type of failure in credential management that bad actors leverage to gain access to accounts, and data.

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Phishing Mobile Technology Manufacturing 134

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

When an attacker is interested in obtaining a particular set of credentials, both Out-Minidump and Invoke-Kerberoast are valid choices depending on the details of the user account of interest and other tradecraft considerations. 2020, February 11). 2020, February 11). 2020, February 11). GitHub repository. [6]:

Engineering 52

Engineering InfoSec Threat Reports Information Security 52

McAfee

JANUARY 15, 2020

Identify email security best practices, such as hovering over a link to identify the actual destination before clicking on a link, never giving account information over email, and mandating that all suspicious emails be immediately reported. If the spate of recent attacks is any indication, we may see similar trends in Q1 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

McAfee researchers addressed the shift in ransomware strategy this week in their McAfee Threats Report: June 2021. Likewise, circa 2019/2020, we saw the introduction of leak sites. T1078 – Valid Accounts. This is a number of years old,” he said. “We It was really GandCrab that embraced the RaaS model. Leak Sites.

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