CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Two-factor authentication (2FA) has been widely adopted by online services over the past several years and turning it on is probably the best thing users can do for their online account security. All of this is automated and controlled by using Telegram-based bots, much like teams in organizations use Slack bots to automate workflows.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The move comes after Twitter accounts claiming association with the Anonymous hacktivist collective declared "cyberwar" against the Russian government and took credit for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the websites of Russia Today, the Kremlin and the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

Late last week, a Twitter account purporting to represent Anonymous wrote that “The #Anonymous collective has taken down the website of the #Russian propaganda station RT News.” It's worth noting that the situation is really quite unprecedented,” Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft, tells CSO. “I

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CSO Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

The platform offers leveled subscription tiers, “à la carte” services, and defense-in-depth across consumer identities, devices, accounts and network connections, according to the company. The release comes as cybercrime continues to plague organizations across the globe and data becomes a key commodity of value to malicious cyber actors.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Machine identities now outnumber humans in enterprises, according to Nathanael Coffing, co-founder and CSO of Cloudentity. If the past few years of cybercrime trends indicate anything, it’s that companies have a shocking number of vulnerabilities – and cybercriminals are getting better at exploiting them.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 23, 2022

Both are saying that the criminal hacking group acquired access to a user account with access to some customer data. LAPSUS$ is a relative newcomer to the cybercrime scene that first appeared in the summer of 2021. Importantly, neither Okta nor LAPSU$ are claiming that Okta’s software has been compromised. Okta’s statement.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

LinkedIn reached out to KrebsOnSecurity, providing this statement: "We do have strong human and automated systems in place, and we're continually improving, as fake account activity becomes more sophisticated. of spam and scam.".

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Kottmann also reportedly even posted some of the videos on Twitter, which later deleted the hacker’s account and their offending tweets. The one that scares me the most is that with this data and its analysis, adversaries could perpetuate not only cybercrimes, but also physical crimes like looting or kidnapping.”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

At Forter, we’ve seen a marked uptick in Account Takeovers (ATO); a form of identity fraud in which a third-party steals credentials and / or gains access to user accounts. Fraudsters have been opportunistic in taking over these accounts. With cybercrime projected to cost the world $10.5 How can that be?

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