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BrandPost: A New Model for Defeating Cyberattacks and Reducing Costs

CSO Magazine

Hardly a day goes by that you don’t hear about a major data breach or a new cyberattack that is making headlines — and the costs associated with these security events continue to mount. As IBM points out in its benchmark report, 2020 Cost of Data Breach Report, the potential costs of a data breach can be significant:1.

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VulnRecap 2/19/2024: News from Microsoft, Zoom, SolarWinds

eSecurity Planet

The vulnerability, CVE-2020-3259 , was first discovered in May 2020. On Thursday, February 15, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the vulnerability to its catalog after reports that it might be actively exploited again.

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Menlo Security Finds Cloud Migration and Remote Work Gives Rise to New Era of Malware, Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT)

CyberSecurity Insiders

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Menlo Security , a leader in cloud security, today announced it has identified a surge in cyberthreats, termed Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT), that bypass traditional security defenses. Since July 2021, Menlo Security has seen a 224% increase in HEAT attacks.

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Preventing the Spread of Ransomware

Security Boulevard

For most of the world, 2020 was devastating, a year mired in multiple crises. But in at least one industry, 2020 was a banner year! Most companies were unprepared to secure an entirely remote workforce, relying on remote desktop protocol (RDP) and strained VPN infrastructures, leaving workers ripe for attack.

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A Ransomware Group Claims to Have Breached the Foxconn Factory

Hacker Combat

In December 2020, the DoppelPaymer extortion gang exposed documents allegedly stolen from some of its databases in the United States. After a severe ransomware assault has hit them, they devote the necessary time and money to strengthening their cyber security defenses.

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Soaring ransomware payments, consistent infections, deceptive URLs and more in this year’s 2022 BrightCloud® Threat Report

Webroot

The year-end average for 2021 more than doubled the 2020 average, reaching $322,168. With security risks escalating worldwide and a persistent state of ‘unprecedented’ threats, compromises are inevitable. SMBs , given the lack of resources to respond, are more likely to pay and pay a lot.

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Google Play Protect prevented 1.9 billion malware installs from Third-party stores in 2019

Security Affairs

In May 2017, Google introduced a security defense system called Google Play Protect to protect the devices running its mobile OS. Google Play Protect now scans over 100 billion applications on Android devices every day, these amazing figures were disclosed by Google.

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