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GUEST ESSAY: Why internal IT teams are ill-equipped to adequately address cyber risks

The Last Watchdog

Every industry is dealing with a myriad of cyber threats in 2024. It seems every day we hear of another breach, another scam, another attack on anything from a small business to a critical aspect of our nation’s infrastructure.

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Key Insights from the OpenText 2024 Threat Perspective

Webroot

As we navigate through 2024, the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, bringing new challenges for both businesses and individual consumers. Businesses operating globally should adapt their cybersecurity strategies to account for these disparities, ensuring protections are tailored to local risks.

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Top 5 Cyber Predictions for 2024: A CISO Perspective

Security Boulevard

Let's delve into the rewind of 2023, exploring five influential trends and threats that molded the cyberthreat landscape and are poised to resonate throughout enterprises in 2024. A more mature third party risk management program. The RaaS model is poised to further elevate cybercrime and empower less-skilled crime groups in 2024.

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Security Roundup January 2024

BH Consulting

2024: the year of the ra…nsomware? Although the blog focuses on the U.S., It found close to 100 high-risk, likely-to-be-exploited vulnerabilities that were not listed in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue. and 25 percent of high-risk CVEs are exploited the same day the vulnerability was disclosed.

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Security Roundup March 2024

BH Consulting

Creeping cyber risk grabbing global headlines Ransomware keeps reminding us of the strong connection between a cybersecurity incident and financial loss. Scale is a factor: larger organisations seem better equipped than SMEs to react to risks. MORE The FBI’s internet crime report shows email scams making way for crypto fraud.

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Tax season is here, so are scammers

Malwarebytes

The Internal Revenue Service has announced that the 2024 tax filing season has officially begun, with an expected 146 million individual tax returns to be filed. Unsurprisingly, this is also the time of year where we see an increase in tax-related scams. Use security software that blocks phishing domains and other scam sites.

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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

Krebs on Security

9, 2024, U.S. 12 blog post , the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance. In mid-January 2024, several Leaked[.]cx The publication said the judge overseeing Urban’s case denied bail because the defendant was a strong flight risk.