Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

What are some personal cybersecurity concerns for 2023? Business email compromise (BEC) attacks have been predicted to soar in 2023 according to Forbes Advisor. More than 90% of successful cyber-attacks start with a phishing email. Cybercrime doesn’t just affect big businesses and national governments. Rosa Rowles.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

What started as notes from Nigerian princes that needed large sums of money to help them get home has evolved into bad actors that use refined social engineering tactics to convince the receiver to unknowingly share important information. In 2022, email phishing attacks made up 24% of all spam emails — up from 11% in 2021.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 3, 2023

Attackers may exploit weak passwords and use social engineering or phishing attacks to gain access to sensitive data. The post Grip Security Blog 2023-07-03 12:03:04 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. Image credit: Amitai Cohen of Wiz. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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SecureList

JANUARY 18, 2023

The threat landscape is constantly updated through new malware and spyware, advanced phishing methods, and new social engineering techniques. Last year, the cybersecurity of corporations and government agencies was more significant than ever before, and will become even more so in 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Phishing attacks are a major threat to organizations, they remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

The agency’s ninth Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) 2023 report gives a law enforcement perspective on current cybercrime techniques. She has been shortlisted for the Piccaso Privacy Awards 2023 in two categories: ESG privacy initiative, and the privacy award for achievement.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

We spoke with our blog volunteers to get their insights into what best practices their companies are following, along with how you can get on a path to better identity management. Why is identity management and security important in 2023? “In The dangers of improper management of digital identities are at an all-time high.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

While the “prediction season” gains momentum, it's pivotal to reflect on the high impact of the 2023 cybersecurity landscape. This past year set a profound stage, from the advent of stringent cyber regulations to the convergence of generative AI, social engineering, and ransomware.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 26, 2023

A new potential cybercrime tool called "FraudGPT" appears to be an AI bot exclusively being used for offensive purposes, such as crafting spear phishing emails, creating cracking tools, carding, and more nefarious activities. The threat actor behind the fraud tool created a Telegram Channel just over a month ago, on June 23, 2023.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s one of the many fascinating insights from Hive Systems’ 2023 Password Table. Security company Trustwave tracked a noticeable increase in this kind of activity in early 2023. Its 2023 phishing threats report combines findings from email security data with a survey of security decision makers. billion last year.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 31, 2023

million scam during a phishing attack. It’s time to go back to the basics, and revisit the most common vulnerabilities across attack surfaces according to NetSPI’s 2023 Offensive Security Vision Report. Here are the six spookiest vulnerabilities of 2023 and their tips for remeidation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Many organizations train employees to spot phishing emails, but few raise awareness of vishing phone scams. Many organizations train employees to spot phishing emails, but few raise awareness of vishing phone scams. Most people are familiar with the term phishing, but not everyone knows about vishing. How do vishers operate?

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Security Through Education

JULY 18, 2023

billion by 2023. Each day people post a plethora of information to social media platforms, giving bad actors plenty of opportunity to steal personal data. Beware of social engineering attacks Understanding the dangers of phishing schemes and other internet scams help you to know what the criminals are looking for.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We think the geopolitical and economic events of 2022, as well as new technological trends, will be the major factors influencing the privacy landscape in 2023. Here we take a look at the most important developments that, in our opinion, will affect online privacy in 2023. Some, however, raise concerns over metaverse privacy.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Target the human, swipe the cash: Verizon DBIR 2023 highlights crime trends Manage the human risk and mind your money: those are two key takeaways from Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Octo Tempest is believed to be a group of native English speaking cybercriminals that uses social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations all over the world. This can be done in a number of ways, but the most common ones involve social engineering attacks on the victim's carrier.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Most of the flaws that Microsoft deems “more likely to be exploited” this month are marked as “important,” which usually involve bugs that require a bit more user interaction (social engineering) but which nevertheless can result in system security bypass, compromise, and the theft of critical assets.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

billion work hours in 2023 and helped raise customer satisfaction to 69% for $0.50 Malicious intent or manipulation: AI chatbots can be exploited to spread misinformation, execute social engineering attacks or launch phishing. This helps them improve their performance over time by gaining data from interactions.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I urge everyone who conducts workforce security training to share this anecdote along with phishing and social-engineering cautionary tales. The post 10 Cybersecurity Trends That Emerged in 2023 appeared first on Security Boulevard. In that way, the rise of LLMs is not just a threatening new channel hackers use.

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Quick Heal Antivirus

MAY 21, 2023

We’re Midway into 2023, and the threat landscape is evolving with new variants of viruses and malware that. The post The Threat Landscape: Emerging Viruses and Malware to Watch Out For in 2023 appeared first on Quick Heal Blog.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

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BH Consulting

MAY 23, 2023

Say it again, I double dare you Anyone familiar with phishing and social engineering will know scammers often use psychological tricks to get victims to divulge personal data. Sign up here The post Security Roundup May 2023 appeared first on BH Consulting. MORE Have you signed up to our monthly newsletter?

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

At the start of 2023, consumers remain out in the cold when it comes to online protection. For instance, phishing, one of the most common, is a social engineering attack used to steal user data. 2021 saw a massive increase in phishing attacks , and that trend has continued into 2022.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The submissions were classified as either phishing or malware. Phishing and Malware Q3 & Q4 2022 The results depicted in Figure 1 show that phishing campaigns (98,7%) were more prevalent than malware (1,3%) during Q3 and Q4 2022. of the total, in comparison with 31.1% in Q2 2022. of the total, in comparison with 31.1%

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that threat actors had "obtained information from certain accounts, including information about users’ DNA Relatives profiles." As 23andMe says in its own blog post, "Since 2019 we’ve offered and encouraged users to use multi-factor authentication."

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As Amazon wrote in its announcement: “We recommend that everyone adopts some form of MFA, and additionally encourage customers to consider choosing forms of MFA that are phishing-resistant, such as security keys.” ” The takeaway here is that not every form of MFA is equally secure.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It begins: Statement on MGM Resorts International: Setting the record straight 9/14/2023, 7:46:49 PM We have made multiple attempts to reach out to MGM Resorts International, "MGM". Due to their network engineers' lack of understanding of how the network functions, network access was problematic on Saturday.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2023

Since cybersecurity is a massive field, and broad skill building can be an even bigger challenge, the program has focused on web attacks and simulated phishing training, since these vulnerabilities are common in this region. Pairing plan 2023 is THE critical year. The purpose of this model is to build teamwork and depth.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Although IBM hopes to make a 1,000-qubit machine by 2023, widespread adoption of quantum computing is still decades away. Phishing and spoofing attacks can be highly covert. In fact, a whopping 30% of phishing emails and SMS messages get opened by targeted users.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 8, 2024

This is what I’ll be delving into in this blog, where I’ll be exploring how these two fields are intersecting and what that means for our digital landscape. According to research, the market is expected to reach $102,78 billion by 2032 , seeing a CAGR of 19.43% between 2023 and 2032.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2023

However, organizations in 2023 know one crucial area to spend money n is cybersecurity. Threat actors will still use social engineering tactics like phishing or ransomware to target businesses, steal data and earn a significant payday. Cyberattacks are becoming more frequent, intense and sophisticated than ever.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2023

madhav Tue, 04/04/2023 - 07:04 During WWII, the US Office of War Information created posters encouraging people to avoid careless talk. Fast forward to 2023, and this adage finds new meaning in the context of generative AI tools, like OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Copilot. The message was, “Loose lips sink ships."

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SecureList

APRIL 13, 2023

In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the recent reports that focus on uncommon infection methods and describe the associated malware. Despite the malware being advertised already in September 2022, we started to detect the first samples at the beginning of 2023. Has encrypted communication with the C2.

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, it brings along with it a time many people look forward to: the holiday season. Phishing emails with holiday themes will also increase during this time of year. You may even come across scams on social media ! Because of this, we want to review common end-of-year scams and how to guard against them.

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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It has links to multiple types of cyber crime, including ransomware, carding, phishing, and malware development. In this blog, we’ll take a look at the components of a crypto scam, including investors, designers, developers, and marketers, as well as a few interesting trends that characterize this black market.

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