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Vietnam-linked Bismuth APT leverages coin miners to stay under the radar

Security Affairs

New blog: The threat actor BISMUTH, which has been running increasingly complex targeted attacks, deployed coin miners in campaigns from July to August 2020. Learn how the group tried to stay under the radar using threats perceived to be less alarming: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 30, 2020.

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CSC Research Finds Third Parties Continue to Lay Groundwork for Malicious Activity Among Thousands of COVID-Related Domains

CyberSecurity Insiders

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– CSC , a world leader in business, legal, tax, and domain security, today announced key findings from its new report, which found that nearly 500,000 web domains were registered since January 2020 containing key COVID-related terms. At CSC, we believe domain security intelligence is power.

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GUEST ESSAY: How SIEMS, UEBAs fall short in today’s turbulent threat landscape

The Last Watchdog

And the cost of damage directly related to cybercrime is adding up, expected to reach $6 trillion by 2021. The painful impact of cyber attacks on businesses is worsening despite advances in technology aimed at protecting enterprises from malicious network traffic, insider threats, malware, denial of service attacks and phishing campaigns.

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Meeting Customers Where They Are …. And Where They Don’t Want to Be

Cisco Security

In addition to creating a complex and dynamic network, hybrid work expanded the attack surface exponentially, making networking and security difficult to manage—further fueling the cybercrime epidemic and opening the floodgates to additional cybersecurity-related challenges. Seeking a secure and simple solution.

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7 Insights About Managing Cyber Risk You Can’t Afford To Miss

Jane Frankland

Security intelligence comes with a high pay off. When Accenture analysed 9 cutting-edge technologies that are helping to reduce cybercrime, and calculated their net savings: the total potential savings minus the required investment in each type of technology or tool, they found the figure amounted to almost USD 2.3

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What a difference a year makes, or does it?

Webroot

2020 was a year of immense change. In our 2020 Webroot Threat Report , our security experts made a series of predictions related to the threat landscape. Cybercrime is no longer a punishment-free crime.”. Our increasing reliance on information technology has provided a climate for malicious actors to take advantage.

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2022: The threat landscape is paved with faster and more complex attacks with no signs of stopping

Webroot

2020 may have been the year of establishing remote connectivity and addressing the cybersecurity skills gap, but 2021 presented security experts, government officials and businesses with a series of unpresented challenges. In 2022, we expect to see an increased use of deepfake technology to influence political opinion.