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Security Affairs newsletter Round 437 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

TikTok fined €345M by Irish DPC for violating children’s privacy Iranian Peach Sandstorm group behind recent password spray attacks Dariy Pankov, the NLBrute malware author, pleads guilty Dangerous permissions detected in top Android health apps Caesars Entertainment paid a ransom to avoid stolen data leaks Free Download Manager backdoored to serve (..)

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Cybersecurity CEO: Security Awareness is An Ongoing Commitment

Herjavec Group

Ransomware, the fastest growing type of cybercrime, cost the world $11.5 Ransomware will attack a business every 11 seconds in 2021, up from every 14 seconds in 2019. billion Internet users by 2030 (90 percent of the projected world population of 8.5 billion annually in 2019 and damages will rise to $20 billion by 2021.

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Security Roundup June 2022

BH Consulting

Security figures on social media debated exactly what the human factor percentage means. The Register led with the DBIR’s finding that ransomware accounted for 25 per cent of the observed security incidents between November 1, 2020, and October 31, 2021. One year on, an interesting reflection on the HSE ransomware attack.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

Statista portal predicts their number will exceed 29 billion by 2030. Ransomware Unlike DDoS malicious programs, ransomware largely targets IoT devices that contain user data: NAS boxes. DeadBolt, which affected thousands of QNAP NAS devices in 2022, is a prominent example of IoT ransomware.

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Office 365 Backup Solutions: Security, Functionality & UI/UX

Spinone

Recent ransomware attacks , however, showed several inherent weaknesses in the security system of Microsoft services. In 2030, your client complains about your product, a piece of equipment for a spaceship that malfunctioned during its second mission to Venus. In theory, it can be used as a backup. Here’s an example.

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