Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When we thought about 2020, it felt like hackers and ransomware should have been at the top (these fall under system intrusion). If the news media and the internet are leading us astray, maybe we can pinpoint what those influences are and systematically reduce our bias on those topics. But that isn’t what Verizon’s data showed.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) arrested an individual (24) suspected of having stolen €4,000,000 from internet users via phishing attacks along with a two accomplices who are suspected. Investigators believe the gang relied on DDoS-for-hire services provided by other cybercriminals.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

26 key cyber security stats for 2024 that every user should know, from rising cyber crime rates to the impact of AI technolog y. Cyber Crime Surge: During COVID-19 , cyber crimes shot up by 600%, showing how threats adapt to global changes. Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Multiple DDoS attacks disrupt online classes. The district says distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks kept knocking online classes offline. Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has been the target of more than a dozen of these types of attacks since the 2020-2021 school year began.".

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity. The number of cyber attacks on Saudi Aramco is increasing. A cyber-attack on major banks could trigger a liquidity crisis, ECB President Christine Lagarde warns. OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, IBM reports.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

The threat landscape for businesses today is filled with many different security threats and attack vectors used by hackers and other malicious individuals. On the world scene, 2020 has already been a challenging year for businesses across the board with COVID-19. What Is a Cyber Attack? Who are behind cyber attacks?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia. FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. Lampion malware v2 February 2020. New Cyber Attack Campaign Leverages the COVID-19 Infodemic. FBI recommends using passphrases instead of complex passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. billion malware attacks worldwide in just the first half of 2022. A 2020 study of pentesting projects from Positive Technologies revealed that external attackers could breach 93% of company networks , with 71% being vulnerable even to novice-level hackers.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Sometimes when you are down in the cyber attack trees defending your organization, it can be tough to see the cyber threat forest. And now we have brand new research coming from the EU which unpacks the top cyber threats as they stand now. What are the top cyber threats right now? Web-based Attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

State-sponsored attacks will remain high in the threat landscape however, with no ease of geopolitical tensions with Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran in sight. Stefan Soesanto, Senior Cyber Defense Researcher, The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zürich. Dr.Mohamed Al Kuwaiti , UAE Cyber Security Council.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A mid-sized financial institution reported its online banking platform received a "constant barrage" of login attempts using a variety of credential pairs, indicating that the attack was using bots. And this is just one recent example of this type of cyber attack. Detecting credential stuffing attacks.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

This week, cybersecurity firm Akamai said they have observed more than 246 million web application attacks levied against the gaming industry between 2019 and 2020. billion attacks tracked by the company across different countries. People are more invested in their games because so much of their social lives were restricted.”.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 5, 2022

Threat Actors: Denial of Service Attacks by Pro-Russian Group KILLNET Temporarily Disrupts Lithuanian Internet Services. Analysts assess that KILLNET possesses the capabilities to successfully conduct DDoS attacks or website defacements and to temporarily interrupt targeted businesses. About EclecticIQ Threat Research.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

According to cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, the attacks began the night of Sept. Wiz, which came out of stealth in December 2020 with $100 million in funding, analyzed a small number of Azure tenants and found that more than 65 percent were unknowingly at risk. Open Source Software is Safe if Not Misused.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 14, 2021

If there’s one thing we learned from 2020, it’s to expect the unexpected! Despite the challenges of 2020, the IoT industry is thriving. In fact, IoT Analytics, a leading provider of market insights for the Internet of Things (IoT), M2M, and Industry 4.0, billion at the end of 2020. billion in 2020.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If the news media and the internet are leading us astray, maybe we can pinpoint what those influences are and systematically reduce our bias on those topics. What did “the internet” think caused breaches in 2021? What influences our perception of cybersecurity breach causes? Do those perceptions reflect reality? The Guardian.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

From IoT devices to internet-based services, the security of countless devices and web-based services' are dependant upon a secure Linux account privilege model. UK media didn't report UK gym chain Total Fitness had been hit by a ransomware attack. DDoS Attacks Leverage Plex Media Server.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. The potentially harmless exercise quickly became a vicious denial of service attack when a bug in the worm’s spreading mechanism leads to computers being infected and reinfected at a rate much faster than he anticipates. .

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. A common type of spyware is a RAM scraper that attacks the storage (RAM) of electronic point-of-sale (POS) devices to scrap customers’ credit card information.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For the past few years ( 2020 , 2022 ), we’ve shared our research on the data breach perception problem - pointing to the fact that how data breaches actually occur appears to vary from how people think they may occur. For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g. Keep reading below! Or download now!

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

2020 is a case in point. It was one of the worst years (if not the worst) for cyber attacks. And there are even more specialized products such as DDoS attacks, email databases, and malware. DDoS Attacks. The New York one is four times more expensive. Cryptocurrency trading accounts. Hackers love it.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. A common type of spyware is a RAM scraper that attacks the storage (RAM) of electronic point-of-sale (POS) devices to scrap customers’ credit card information.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If the news media and the internet are leading us astray, maybe we can pinpoint what those influences are and systematically reduce our bias on those topics. What did “the internet” think caused breaches in 2021? In 2021, like in 2020, what we Googled was System Intrusion , Social Engineering , and Denial of Service information.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For the past few years ( 2020 , 2022 ), we’ve shared our research on the data breach perception problem - pointing to the fact that how data breaches occur appears to vary widely between industry sources and how people think they may occur. For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g. Keep reading below!

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

If the victim organization is slow to pay up, even though its files are encrypted and some of its confidential data has been stolen, the attackers additionally threaten to carry out a DDoS attack. In addition to DDoS attacks, it has added spam and calls to clients and partners of the victim company to its toolbox.

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