SecureWorld News

JUNE 2, 2025

CrowdStrike's "Fancy Bear" versus Microsoft's "STRONTIUM") for the same threat actors, leading to confusion among security teams, media, and even policymakers. According to the joint statement, "This collaboration is designed to improve the clarity and usefulness of threat intelligence for defenders around the world."

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Behavioral Analysis : By studying user behavior, generative AI can flag activities that deviate from normal patterns, potentially signaling insider threats or compromised accounts. For example, AI-driven tools like Darktrace use machine learning to detect threats autonomously, reducing the time between detection and response.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2019

Beyond simple economics, the crippling effects of a breach on a business are increasingly broad – from information loss and operational implications, through to media pressure, reputational damage and action from customers or regulators. This is a significant change. Next, it’s about keeping the organisation secure by design.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2023

While the distractions and the substantial bandwidth strains associated with following the annual NCAA Tournament can damage organizations, mobile security threats have proven to be a more dangerous issue that organizations of all sizes should be particularly wary about. Mobile phishing attacks are on the rise.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One of the most outstanding examples involves $2 million ‘s worth of CS:GO skins stolen from a user’s account , which means that losses can get truly grave. Game over: cybercriminals targeting gamers’ accounts and money. Launching the malware resulted in decryption and activation of a Trojan-stealer dubbed Taurus.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2019

Yet IDC research published in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition states that 60% of organizations have incurred at least one data breach and 30% experienced their most recent breach within the past 12 months. For more information please contact your Thales or Pure Storage account team to schedule a briefing.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

However, according to CrowdStrike’s new Global Threat Report , the old-fashioned way of hacking – with hands on keyboards – isn’t going out of style anytime soon. This spike indicates “these adversary groups, and methods for defending against their TTPs, deserve a great deal of attention in the coming year,” the report states.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The directive relied heavily on the discretion of individual member states, and lacked the accountability required. What prompted the EU to act is the rapidly expanding threat landscape that places increasing pressure on enterprises to develop the capacity to effectively prepare for and manage a cyber crisis.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The physical layer: The lowest level of protection is applied at the physical media level – the actual flash or conventional disks, or other storage media that contain the information that needs protection. Protecting data at this level typically only protects against the physical loss, theft or improper retirement of the media.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2019

Yet IDC research published in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition states that 60% of organizations have incurred at least one data breach and 30% experienced their most recent breach within the past 12 months. For more information please contact your Thales or Pure Storage account team to schedule a briefing.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The threat actor behind the attacks contacted potential victims via social media or email and sent the initial malware through Skype. We have been tracking this threat actor for several years and previously published an APT threat report describing its malicious operations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

This morning we announced, in tandem with our partner 451 Research, the Global Edition of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. It’s abundantly clear that medium to larger enterprises (the focus of the report and underlying survey) are finding it harder than ever to protect their sensitive data. First – The breaches.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

The ransomware epidemic dominated the 2021 Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Report , echoing the constant stream of IT media headlines, namely that ransomware gangs continue to evolve their tactics and operations, and are making more and more serious money. Australia Cyber Attacks hit Television Channel and Parliament.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Statistics paint a stark picture of this escalating threat: In 2022 alone, there were over 500 million phishing attempts reported globally The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received almost 60,000 complaints in 2022. In the 2023 Thales Global Data Threat Report 41% of respondents reported seeing a rise in phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2025

Meta stopped three covert operations from Iran, China, and Romania using fake accounts to spread propaganda on social media platforms. Meta announced the disruption of three influence operations from Iran, China, and Romania using fake accounts to spread propaganda and manipulate discourse on Facebook, Instagram, and more.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

McAfee researchers addressed the shift in ransomware strategy this week in their McAfee Threats Report: June 2021. They will steal data from their victims before encrypting it and threaten to publish the stolen data on the “leak sites” and then alert the media about the attack. T1078 – Valid Accounts.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 30, 2024

Earlier the group was linked to disinformation campaigns around the US elections in a Microsoft threat report , Google research findings , and when OpenAI banned accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation. Meta blocked a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts posing as support agents for tech companies.

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