Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 31, 2023

C-suites across all industries, from traditional finance to the latest “unicorns” emerging in the fintech industry, are facing a formidable challenge: how to protect their business and customer data against growing cyber threats. As a CISO or ITDM, the cyber defence challenges you face in your business couldn’t be tougher.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 12, 2021

The post Game On: A Summer of Cybercrime Reveals Evolving Bot Threat appeared first on Blog. The post Game On: A Summer of Cybercrime Reveals Evolving Bot Threat appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The discovery of STYX coincides with Resecurity financial crime risk analysts observing a significant increase in threat actors offering money-laundering services that exploit digital banking and cryptocurrency accounts. Resecurity’s investigation of STYX also yielded the discovery of 100 mules accounts.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The best way to stay up-to-date with the recent trends is by reading the top cybersecurity blogs. Here’s our list of the best cybersecurity blogs to read and follow. Securing Tomorrow SecuringTomorrow is a blog by McAfee, one of the biggest security software providers. Their main focus is on cybercrime investigations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The CISA ‘s Joint Cyber Defense Collective (JCDC) initiative is going to build operation plans for protecting and responding to cyber threats. What comes to mind when you think of cyber criminals? Those days are behind us, however, as cybercrime is establishing itself as a business in and of itself.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

The incident also highlights the often murky area between what’s legal and ethical in combating cybercrime. Data Viper is the brainchild of Vinny Troia , a security researcher who runs a cyber threat intelligence company called Night Lion Security. An online post by the attackers who broke into Data Viper. But on Aug.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 15, 2021

This blog was jointly written with Ofer Caspi. Some of the links in this blog require an OTX account, and the QakBot infrastructure tracker will require readers to be customers with access to the Threat Intel subscription. Thanks to the following researchers and the MalwareBazaar Project: @0verfl0w_. malware_traffic.

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Digital Shadows

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The post Digital Shadows' Top Five Blogs of 2020 first appeared on Digital Shadows. Rumour has it that one day I’ll stop being nostalgic around December time and live this month just like any.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

And, let’s be honest , the deceptive writing phishing assaults and other cyber threats today employ are skilled enough to fool even the most trained, internet-savvy experts. Ever present threats. This enormously horrific cybercrime primarily targets older women and freshly widowed individuals. Identity-theft.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

Employees often reuse passwords between other services and accounts. We have entered a new era of cyber threats. If measured as a country, cybercrime would possess the third-largest economy in the world, behind the U.S. Password leaks are commonplace.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Interestingly enough, recent BlackCat threats are in response to a groundbreaking move against cybercrime. In a LinkedIn comment regarding a blog post about BlackCat's retaliatory move on HealthcareInfoSecurity , Krista Arndt , CISO at United Musculoskeletal Partners, said: " Retaliation is so much fun. Callie Guenther, Sr.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Sherrod DeGrippo, senior director of threat research at Proofpoint, said they were first notified of the CopperStealer malware by Twitter user TheAnalyst. Credentials make the world go round when it comes to the current threat landscape and this shows the lengths that threat actors will take to steal valuable credential data.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 26, 2021

After all, it is the most efficient method to bypass traditional security controls and directly communicate with targets at companies that are of interest to threat groups. Equally, direct messages have been used by groups to take control over influencer accounts to promote messaging of their own. Game of Ransomware Thrones.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Businesses try to build a secure online presence through blogs, webinars, training, and more. These exploits can be seen in the swells of cybercrime that have popped up across various countries in Africa. The vocabulary of cybersecurity. billion in losses overall in Africa.

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Herjavec Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

With an increase in online activity comes an increase in the risk of cyber threats. My gift to you this holiday season is a list of tips that will help you as a customer avoid adding cybercrime to that long list of stressors. We pride ourselves on keeping enterprises around the world secure from the threat of cybercrime.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Learn from the examples we provide in this blog as SiteLock President, Neill Feather, weighs in on why cybersecurity should matter to you. The stolen account information includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, security questions and answers, and hashed passwords. Students Pay for Cybercrime. Neill Feather.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 18, 2023

The hacktivists didn’t post any demands or host stolen data, but they did use malware that’s more commonly associated with cyber criminals. This blog focuses on ransomware activity in Q4 2022, based on primary and secondary source reporting. They cited his transfer of “dirty” Bitcoin from a ransom account to his personal account.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 14, 2023

IdentityIQ Day by day, threats to online security continue to rise. Among these threats, spam and phishing are two commonly misunderstood but distinct challenges. Phishing is a cybercrime where criminals masquerade as legitimate institutions to deceive individuals into divulging sensitive information. What is Phishing?

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As we move towards the end of 2022, now is the time to take a look back at the major trends from the last eleven months and identify what might happen from a cyber threat perspective in 2023. A key for analysts is to remain flexible and not compartmentalize cyber threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Ambitious information security experts serve as a critical part of cyber risk management. Cyber risk is the third critical corporate risk in 2021, as per the latest Allianz Risk Barometer.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Still, because of the overwhelming pressure the healthcare sector suffered due to the Covid-19 pandemic, they were left more vulnerable to cybercrime. This is due primarily to isolation and the constant bombardment of emails and instant messages. The data of over 1.2

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by a guest blogger. In the world of cybercrime, a flawed application is a potential goldmine for them, but an onramp to disaster for most organizations. The threat landscape has increased at a frightening speed. Cybercriminals never sleep. They're too busy looking for application vulnerabilities.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Folks, Who wants to dive deep into some of my latest commercially available research and stay on the top of their OSINT/cybercrime research and threat intelligence gathering game that also includes their team and organization? A Compilation of Currently Active Cyber Jihad Themed Personal Email Addresses – An OSINT Analysis.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

While criminals collaborating in the world of cybercrime isn’t a novel concept , a RaaS group’s hierarchy is more rigid compared to other forms of cybercrime, due to the power imbalance between the group’s developers/admins and affiliates. Jabber group for unhappy threat actors. No hidden blogs, just leaks.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Gone are the days where defending your enterprise from cyber threats and knowing how to properly respond to an incident was on your IT department’s shoulders alone. End users should be trained not to use easy to decrypt passwords and/or the same password for multiple accounts. Mitigate Vulnerability Risk.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

In the past weeks, a new strange campaign emerged in the cyber threat Italian landscape, it has been tracked as “ Operation Pistacchietto. ”. It has been baptized “ Operation Pistacchietto ” from a username extracted from a Github account used to serve some part of the malware. Introduction. OSX backdoor’s setup file.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

According to SI-LAB , a total of 176 users from Chile were affected in a broad cyber threat occurred between March 18th and 26th of 2019. We built a GeoMap of Threats that aggregates the victims’ IP addresses, based on their geolocation, that were collected from all the data in the opendir C2 server. GeoMap of Threats.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Phishing Threats Are Increasing in Scale and Sophistication Phishing remains one of the most dangerous and widespread cybersecurity threats. Source: IBM Security: Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023) According to recent research, the number of phishing attacks vastly outpaces all other cyber threats. billion USD globally.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently launched a new website aimed at educating small business owners on the risks of cybercrime and the steps they can take to protect their business. It also has information on other cyber threats such as ransomware and phishing schemes targeting small businesses.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Stop threats before they spread with automated website scanning and malware removal. The first step to implementing a proactive approach to cybersecurity is stopping threats before they spread or cause damage. Because cybercrime is big business (and the fastest-growing type of crime), new attack methods are always arising.

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Cyber attacks featured in the top five risks for the year ahead, along with factors like extreme weather and the cost of living crisis. It also predicts that organised gangs will use cybercrime more, because it offers easy money for lower risk. MORE Three things security leaders can do to increase accountability.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Cybercriminals are using Salesforce’s mass email service to dupe people into handing over credit card numbers, credentials and other personal information in a novel phishing campaign that highlights the threats to corporate networks that can come from whitelisted email addresses. In addition, the site has a certificate issued to it.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Passive, reactive cyber defenses have long struggled to keep up with the evolving cybercrime market. Threat modeling represents a crucial pillar of this transition. What is Threat Modeling? Threat modeling is precisely what it sounds like. Nowhere does this hold truer than in cybersecurity. trillion by 2025.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In 2018, the SentinelOne blog ranked superhero names combined with a number as one of the worst passwords. Programs like Regex are relatively simple to use and hackers working within crime circles to sell data on the darknet will be familiar with how to use software like this to break into your online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

28, 2023, researchers at the Chinese security firm DarkNavy published a blog post purporting to show evidence that a major Chinese ecommerce company’s app was using this same three-exploit chain to read user data stored by other apps on the affected device, and to make its app nearly impossible to remove. . and Western interests.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Kaspersky has a long history of combating cyber threats, including DDoS attacks of all types and complexity. GRE flooding was employed, for instance, by the Mirai botnet to attack the blog of journalist Brian Krebs in 2016. Duration of DDoS attacks, 2019 and 2020; data for 2019 is taken as 100% ( download ). Statistics.

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SC Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

The Russian state-sponsored hackers behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack relied on a decidedly more cybercrime-styled playbook for their latest reported attack, launching a sweeping phishing campaign designed to distribute malware to organizations via weaponized communications sent from a compromised email marketing account.

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