Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2023

According to the (IC)² 2022 Cybersecurity Workforce Study , the global security workforce gap increased by 26 percent, with 3.4 million additional workers needed to effectively secure businesses. It’s this discrepancy that I believe will lead to a nationally significant cyberattack on a major US organization this year.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Even a company with the most sophisticated cybersecurity tools and expert security teams can fall prey to cybercriminals if they overlook one area of vulnerability: their people. Humans can be distracted, intimidated and especially – misled. In fact, 97% of us can’t tell a phishing email from a legitimate one. on a Tuesday.

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

They inject the malware directly into the system memory, leaving no artifacts on the local drive that might alert traditional signature-based security and forensics tools. The malware does not contain the exact address of the C2 (command-and-control) server, making it harder for security researchers to find it.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the first half of 2023, 97.91% of password brute-force attempts registered by our honeypots targeted Telnet, and only 2.09%, SSH. The majority of infected devices that carried out these attacks were traced to China, India, and the United States, while China, Pakistan, and Russia were the most actively attacking countries.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

It might be the worst-kept secret in all of cybersecurity: the FBI says don't pay ransomware gangs. But corporations do it all the time, sending millions every year in Bitcoin to recover data that's been taken "hostage." According to Sophos, roughly half of U.S. corporations report being attacked by ransomware last year.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

billion viewers , equating to more than half of the global population aged four and over. That’s why we’ve decided to start our research well ahead of time and use all our resources to showcase some interesting examples of how threat actors could exploit the Qatar 2022 World Cup to conduct malicious activity.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A look back at the cybersecurity landscape in 2023 rings all-too familiar: cyber threats rapidly evolved and scaled up , just as they have, year-to-year, for the past 20 years. Hackers now leverage GenAI to launch targeted attacks that bypass traditional security systems. Here is part one of three groupings.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

In 2020, the group tried its hand at the big extortion game with the VHD ransomware family. Due to the limitations imposed by the epidemiological situation, particular categories of users and businesses were increasingly targeted by cybercriminals. While we were adjusting to remote work and the rest of the new conditions, so were scammers.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So you’ve been hit with ransomware and, for whatever reason, you paid the bitcoin but now the decryptor doesn’t work. He was a French criminologist who pioneered many scientific, repeatable processes that make up modern forensic science. Maybe your first concern is to make sure the company is functional.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Speak to any organization infiltrated by ransomware—the most dangerous malware in the world—and they’ll be blunt: They’d do anything to avoid getting hit twice. But ransomware attacks have been ramping up in 2023 and reinfections are occurring all over the globe, forcing lean IT teams to prepare.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks cause problems for organizations of all sizes. For example, the 2016 DDoS attack on the Dyn managed domain name service (DNS) caused the DNS service to fail to respond to legitimate DNS inquiries and effectively shut down major sites such as PayPal, Spotify, Twitter, Yelp, and many others.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

It can feel like crossing a major highway while blindfolded. Beyond the expected, we must also keep watch for the unpleasant surprises that can severely disrupt the security, trust, and capabilities of our digital world. So, let’s explore what 2024 and beyond has in store for all of us in the digital world.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

With about half a million VARs currently operating and roughly 75,000 MSPs, what opportunities exist for expansion? To many, the answer is security – there are only 10,000 MSSPs currently operating after all. Also see: Best Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs). Security is quite different from other areas of IT.

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Veracode Security

MAY 14, 2021

This year, Verizon analyzed 79,635 incidents, of which 29,207 met their quality standards and 5,258 were confirmed data breaches, from 88 countries around the world. Like previous years, the majority of breaches were financially motivated, and most were caused by external actors illegally accessing data. It doesn???t

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

First, a little background Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of only eight major categories.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 13, 2021

Awareness and interest in cybersecurity is up Thanks to media attention due to hacks and data breaches plus campaigns and initiatives run by governments, tech giants, system integrators, cybersecurity consultancies and product vendors, more people than ever are interested in cybersecurity. But this isn’t all. Here’s my answer. #1.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

There’s a classic trope in fiction, that a criminal hacker somehow gets information that allows them or their team to take down a power grid of a major city. vassal him Chuck is the electric control center manager and told us when hackers took over their computers, all his workers could do was film it with their cell phones.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Q3 2021 brought two new DDoS attack vectors, potentially posing a serious threat, including for major web resources. News overview. A team of researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado Boulder found a way to spoof the victim’s IP address over TCP.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

As the demand for robust security defense grows by the day, the market for cybersecurity technology has exploded, as well as the number of available solutions. Between high-profile ransomware attacks and mergers, it is a time of high stakes and great change for the industry. Syxsense Secure. Learn more about Syxsense Secure.

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SecureList

AUGUST 3, 2022

The attackers used the slow HTTP technique , transmitting the HTTP request body at a very low rate and sending incomplete requests to make the target servers allocate resources for listening. In late June, the hacktivists attacked Lithuania’s Secure National Data Transfer Network as well as other government agencies in that country.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Thankfully, cybersecurity professionals everywhere are working on inventing new tech and improving upon legacy technology solutions to maintain pace with these criminals who threaten our data security. Learn more about what security leaders have to say about the upcoming year below: Neil Jones, cybersecurity evangelist, Egnyte.

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