McAfee

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Everyone deserves a break after surviving this past year and I cannot think of better way to celebrate than to share some of our greatest accomplishments from 2020. January 2020 Gartner Peer Insights VOC Customers’ Choice for CASB. 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice VOC for Secure Web Gateways.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 In 2020, Bitcoin blackmailers stuck to their old scheme, demanding that their victims transfer money to a certain account and threatening adversity for failure to meet their demands. The share of spam in global email traffic in 2020 was down by 6.14

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 6, 2020

That email would have been a reply to one you originally sent to me that would have sounded something like this: Hi, I came across your blog on [thing] and I must admit, it was really nicely written. I also have an article on [thing] and I think it would be a great addition to your blog. On a popular blog. kthanksbye!

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Threat actors have started exploiting a critical vulnerability in Oracle WebLogin, tracked as CVE-2020-14882, in attacks in the wild. Threat actors have started scanning the Internet for servers running vulnerable installs of Oracle WebLogic in the attempt of exploiting the a critical flaw tracked as CVE-2020-14882.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

There seems to be a new stealer in town called #TroyStealer , targeting Portuguese internet users EXE: [link] Exfil email address: domionhuby@gmail.com Has anyone seen this threat before? /cc cc @CNCSgovpt @sirpedrotavares pic.twitter.com/1bDK3BtYeE — abuse.ch (@abuse_ch) June 12, 2020. About the author Pedro Tavares.

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Internet Internet Malware Banking 109

Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Researchers published proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the CVE-2020-0796 Windows flaw, tracked as SMBGhost, that can be exploited for local privilege escalation. We've just finished our first internet wide scan for CVE-2020-0796 and have identified 48000 vulnerable hosts. SMBv3) network communication protocol.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2020

Cisco fixed CVE-2020-3452 high-severity path traversal flaw in its firewalls that can be exploited by remote attackers to obtain sensitive files from the targeted system. The CVE-2020-3452 flaw was independently reported to Cisco by Mikhail Klyuchnikov of Positive Technologies and Abdulrahman Nour and Ahmed Aboul-Ela from RedForce.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

Top of the heap this month in terms of outright scariness is CVE-2020-1350 , which concerns a remotely exploitable bug in more or less all versions of Windows Server that attackers could use to install malicious software simply by sending a specially crafted DNS request. .”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The actively exploited Windows spoofing vulnerability (CVE-2020-1464) recently patched by Microsoft has been known for more than two years. The actively exploited Windows spoofing flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-1464 and patched last week by Microsoft, has been known for more than two years, researchers revealed. Wait wait wait.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 10, 2021

According to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center received 791,790 cybercrime complaints in 2020, with. The post Keeping criminal justice information secure with advanced authentication appeared first on Entrust Blog.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty. — NordVPN (@NordVPN) October 23, 2020 Ah, tricky! Been a lot of "victim blaming" going on these last few days. — Bartek ?wierczy?ski

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Phishing Password Management Passwords Internet 362

Heimadal Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

A man from California confessed his involvement in a large-scale and long-running Internet-based fraud scam that enabled him and other fraudsters to steal about $50 million from dozens of investors over an eight-year period, from 2012 to October 2020.

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Scams Internet Internet Cybersecurity 93

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2019

As technology becomes capable of defeating a higher proportion of current and legacy security efforts, cybersecurity in 2020 will be defined by the need to stand out. National Initiatives in 2020. 2020 will see an ongoing increase in state-sponsored efforts to establish hegemony in the quantum race.

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Technology Government Encryption Internet 83

Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com A search at DomainTools.com for privatenote[.]io com , privatemessage[.]net

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Use of “domain age” is a feature being promoted by various firewall and web security vendors as a method to protect users and systems from accessing malicious internet destinations. The sites and domains of the internet are constantly changing and evolving. The concept is to use domain age as a generic traffic filtering parameter.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

Along with innovation and technology proliferation, new challenges that will shape business during 2020. The adoption of emerging technologies like 5G will fuel the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) that’s often built with only a few security controls and therefore creating a larger attack surface that enterprises have to deal with.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

2020 ends a decade, and the new year prompted me to think “Wow it’s been two decades since we started Vormetric.” We still use some of the same fundamental technological building blocks: storage, computers, networks, the internet. The post Hindsight is 2020. And the mission we started then still applies now. Technology.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned that internet buyers might lose more than $53 million during the holiday season this year. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 17,000 complaints about the non-delivery of goods during the 2020 holiday shopping season, resulting in losses of more than $53 million.

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Heimadal Security

MAY 10, 2021

In fact, according to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report, the number of ransomware incidents continues to rise, with 2,474 incidents reported in 2020. The post Threat Actors Use Data Leak Marketplaces for Data-Theft Extortion appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Ransomware is old news. The term is […].

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

In addition, 16Shop employed various tricks to help its users’ phishing pages stay off the radar of security firms, including a local “blacklist” of Internet addresses tied to security companies, and a feature that allowed users to block entire Internet address ranges from accessing phishing pages. Image: ZeroFox.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The internet of things (IoT) is widening the sphere of physical security as smart devices connected to business systems via the internet may be located outside of established secure perimeters. Muthukrishnan Access control, surveillance , and testing are the three major components that comprise the physical security of a system.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft today released updates to plug nearly 100 security holes in various versions of its Windows operating system and related software, including a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that is actively being exploited. That vulnerability, assigned as CVE-2020-0674 , has been patched with this month’s release.

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Backups Malware Internet Internet 55

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

. “Snatch threat actors have been observed purchasing previously stolen data from other ransomware variants in an attempt to further exploit victims into paying a ransom to avoid having their data released on Snatch’s extortion blog,” the FBI/CISA alert reads. Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63

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Ransomware Accountability Cybercrime Backups 218

Heimadal Security

JUNE 7, 2021

Combining all banking – internet, telephone, and branch – fraud attacks grew a whopping 159% in Q1 2021 compared to Q4 2020. The post Feedzai’s Verdict: Banking Attacks Have Increased 159% Over the Past Year appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Banking Internet Internet Risk 84

Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

In September 2020, the British government announced the ban on the installation of new Huawei equipment in the 5G networks of Wireless carriers after September 2021. In January 2020, In January, the EU’s executive Commission presented a set of rules and technical measures aimed at reducing cybersecurity risks from the adoption of 5G.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

2020 blog post on an ongoing Qakbot campaign that was first documented three months earlier by Check Point Research. The security flaw was briefly alluded to in a 2018 writeup on U-Admin by the SANS Internet Storm Center. The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It also hijacks other internet browsers, including Safari and Firefox. ViperSoftX has been around since 2020. The post A Google Chrome Extension Is Helping Hackers Steal Cryptocurrency Passwords appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The Chrome extension is a JavaScript-based Trojan.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2021

percent of all traffic in 2020, an all-time high. percent of internet traffic in 2020 wasn’t human, as human traffic decreased by 5.7 appeared first on Blog. According to Imperva’s Bad Bot Report 2021, bad bot traffic has maintained its upwards trend, amounting to 25.6 Combined with good bot traffic, 40.8 percent to 59.2

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IT Security Guru

MAY 11, 2023

The lax attitude to cyber security by a large percentage of internet users never fails to amaze and bamboozle IT security specialists. However, a lack of internet security could leave your website vulnerable to attack , where all your posts and settings are deleted. After all, there are more than 1.1 Why should that be the case?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2022

“Globally, in 2021, malicious cyber actors targeted internet-facing systems, such as email servers and virtual private network (VPN) servers, with exploits of newly disclosed vulnerabilities. This advisory also includes other frequently exploited vulnerabilities. ” reads the advisory published by CISA. To nominate, please visit:?

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Software VPN Cybersecurity Internet 145

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

His blog, Krebs on Security , was knocked down alright. The author of Mirai used a sledgehammer to kill a fly: the DDoS bombardment was so large that it also wiped out Dyn , a UK-based internet performance vendor. It’s easy to do when there are six million open DNS resolvers on the internet using poor security practices.”.

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SC Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

The low sophistication attacks, which are outlined by Mandiant in a new blog post released Tuesday, encompass simpler attacks, where actors with varying levels of skill and resources use common IT tools and techniques to gain access to and interact with exposed OT systems. ‘How do I make money off of this?' .

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

After their official statement in September 2020, where they confirmed they were ending support for Adobe Flash Player on its Chromium-based Edge, legacy Edge browsers, and Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft has begun removing the software from Windows devices.

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Internet Internet Software Cybersecurity 61

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. “A domain hosting provider ‘GoDaddy’ that manages one of our core domain names incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain to a malicious actor,” Liquid CEO Kayamori said in a blog post. This latest campaign appears to have begun on or around Nov.

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Cryptocurrency VPN Scams Social Engineering 363

Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In that breach, which occurred in October 2020, a hacker using the handle “Ransom Man” threatened to publish patient psychotherapy notes if Vastaamo did not pay a six-figure ransom demand. Another domain hosted a fake blog that besmirched the reputation of a Tulsa, Okla.

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