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News alert: Criminal IP and Quad9 collaborate to exchange domain and IP threat intelligence

The Last Watchdog

Through this integration, Quad9 leverages the most up-to-date threat intelligence lists, incorporating data from Criminal IP’s database of malicious domains to block harmful hostnames. The specially designed Criminal IP Malicious Domains Retrieval API is used to send the Domain Data Feed identified as malicious to Quad9 for integration.

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Dell notifies customers about data breach

Malwarebytes

Email addresses are a unique identifier that can allow data brokers to merge and enrich their databases. So, this is another big data breach that leaves us with more questions than answers. We have to be careful that we don’t shrug these data breaches away with comments like “they already know everything there is to know.”

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Phishing Today, Deepfakes Tomorrow: Training Employees to Spot This Emerging Threat

Dark Reading

Cybercriminals are evolving their tactics, and the security community anticipates voice and video fraud to play a role in one of the next big data breaches -- so start protecting your business now.

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Twitter data dump of 235 million users available on web

CyberSecurity Insiders

Adding more embarrassment to last year’s Twitter Data Breach, a new finding on the web has discovered a new database dump exposed on an online hacking forum. It appears to be a big data leak as information related to about 235 million users was found by a cyber intelligence firm named Hudson Rock, based in Israel.

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China’s Cybercriminals Profit From Underground Data Monetization

Security Boulevard

Cybercriminals are using big data technology to make money from data obtained on the Chinese-language underground. Quelle surprise.

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GUEST ESSAY: Top 5 cyber exposures tied to the rising use of international remote workforces

The Last Watchdog

Slow communication can also leave workers vulnerable to phishing attacks, where cybercriminals pose as legitimate authorities. Since phishing makes up 30% of all attacks against small businesses, this is a pressing concern. About the essayist: April Miller is a staff writer at ReHack Magazine.

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Avoiding Tax Scams in 2022

Approachable Cyber Threats

Forward emails or phone numbers of phishing to phishing@irs.gov Use [link] for everything else. Visit [link] to block more phishing pages. Phishing remains the leading cause of big data breaches. Phishing scams aren’t successful because of their sophistication. Use [link] to check on your refund.

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