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Black Hat USA 2021 Network Operations Center

Cisco Security

Cisco Secure returned as a supporting partner of the Black Hat USA 2021 Network Operations Center (NOC) for the 5 th year ; joining conference producer Informa Tech and its other security partners. Threat hunting is a core mission of the Cisco Secure team, while monitoring the DNS activity for potentially malicious activity.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

SecureList

IT threat evolution Q3 2021. IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. While tracking this threat actor in spring 2021, we discovered a newer version. The attackers obtain initial access to a system by sending a spear-phishing email to the victim containing a Dropbox download link.

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Most Organizations Do DMARC Wrong. Here’s How to Do It Right.

eSecurity Planet

Without the more restrictive enforcement policy, organizations place an unnecessary burden on email security applications and increase the likelihood of a phishing attack successfully impersonating a brand. Domains receiving emails can compare the envelope of the email and compare against DNS records. What is DMARC? What is SPF?

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HYAS Protection for growing businesses

Security Boulevard

Securing SMB Success: The Indispensable Role of Protective DNS Cyber attacks pose as much risk to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as they do to large organizations — if not more. Implementing a Domain Name Service (DNS) security solution is the most efficient way to protect your business against a wide variety of attacks.

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Threat actors abuse public cloud services to spread multiple RATs

Security Affairs

The malware campaign was spotted by Cisco Talos in October 2021, most of the victims were located in the United States, Italy and Singapore. The attack chains starts with a phishing email using a malicious ZIP attachment that contain an ISO image with a loader in the form of JavaScript, a Windows batch file or Visual Basic script.

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Threat actor has been targeting the aviation industry since at least 2018

Security Affairs

Security researchers from the Cisco Talos team uncovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting the aviation industry for two years avoiding detection. Security researchers from Cisco Talos uncovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting, dubbed Operation Layover, that targeted the aviation industry for two years without being detected.

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How to Stop Phishing Attacks with Protective DNS

Security Boulevard

Phishing Threats Are Increasing in Scale and Sophistication Phishing remains one of the most dangerous and widespread cybersecurity threats. Phishing is now the most common initial attack vector, overtaking stolen or compromised credentials. In 2021 alone, estimated adjusted losses from BEC totaled $2.4

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