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Zix tricks: Phishing campaign creates false illusion that emails are safe

SC Magazine

Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons). Researchers last week spotted a phishing campaign that leveraged an online email authentication solution from Zix, in hopes that potential victims would be lulled into a false sense of security. An Office 365 retail pack.

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Ransomware Groups Look for Inside Help

eSecurity Planet

“Historically, ransomware has been delivered via email attachments or, more recently, using direct network access obtained through things like unsecure VPN accounts for software vulnerabilities,” Crane Hassold, director of threat intelligence at Abnormal Security, wrote in a blog post. Threat Traced to Nigeria.

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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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When AIs Start Hacking

Schneier on Security

This wasn’t AI — human engineers programmed a regular computer to cheat — but it illustrates the problem. They programmed their engine to detect emissions control testing, and to behave differently. The programmers will be satisfied, the accountants ecstatic. Their cheat remained undetected for years.

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How Cisco Duo Helps Mitigate Common MITRE ATT&CK® Techniques

Duo's Security Blog

" Organizations use this information to audit, assess, and implement security defense-in-depth strategies to mitigate cybersecurity attacks. MITRE ATT&CK is a "globally accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations."

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Email Security Recommendations You Should Consider from 2021

Cisco Security

Here is a brief review of the 2021 Email Security Recommendations: Spam and Unwanted Email Detection: For most organizations, spam & unwanted email volumes are running in the low 80% of their entire email volume. Email Attachments: One of two main methods to penetrate security defenses with malicious content by email.

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What Is Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)? Types, Risks & Prevention

eSecurity Planet

An example of reflected XSS would be a threat actor intercepting a software engineer’s request parameters to access a popular engineering application. From there, the threat actor can take multiple actions to compromise the engineer’s work, like stealing the information they input on the page.

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