Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Though significant, the early days' threats vastly differed from today's sophisticated cyberattacks. Cyber threats have evolved from poorly-written scam emails to state-sponsored attacks, ransomware onslaughts, and deepfake technologies. When possible, utilize authentication apps or hardware tokens to bolster security further.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 14, 2023

Spam vs. Phishing: What’s the Difference? IdentityIQ Day by day, threats to online security continue to rise. Among these threats, spam and phishing are two commonly misunderstood but distinct challenges. What is Phishing? Here are some ways you can detect phishing: 1.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 3, 2023

New AI-powered cybercrime tools suggest that the capability of AI hacking tools may be evolving rapidly. The creator of FraudGPT, and potentially also WormGPT , is actively developing the next generation of cybercrime chatbots with much more advanced capabilities.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

Reinvention is a basic survival skill in the cybercrime business. But REvil’s victim shaming blog would disappear from the dark web just four days later. All three of these ransom operations stem from a prolific cybercrime group known variously as TA505, “ Indrik Spider ” and (perhaps most memorably) Evil Corp.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

Traditionally, cybersecurity has been a reactive game: We respond to cyber threats as they arise, analyze the incidents, add pertinent information to “deny lists”, and update stakeholders on “what happened.” Phishing attacks are becoming more targeted, difficult to detect, and increasingly sophisticated.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Folks, Who wants to dive deep into some of my latest commercially available research and stay on the top of their OSINT/cybercrime research and threat intelligence gathering game that also includes their team and organization? A Compilation of Currently Active Cyber Jihad Themed Personal Email Addresses – An OSINT Analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

And, let’s be honest , the deceptive writing phishing assaults and other cyber threats today employ are skilled enough to fool even the most trained, internet-savvy experts. Ever present threats. This enormously horrific cybercrime primarily targets older women and freshly widowed individuals.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In a lecture this year for Gresham College, she pointed out similarities between the language used by politicians and law enforcement, the security industry’s marketing teams, and even cybercriminals who use phishing and scams. On her excellent ‘Beyond the phish’ Substack, she made a plea to stop inventing new terms for scams.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

The cybercrime marketplace also continued to get more robust while the barrier to entry for malicious actors continued to drop. This has created a perfect breeding ground for aspiring cybercriminals and organized cybercrime groups that support newcomers with venture capitalist-style funding.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Tailored phishing. You may never have heard the terms together before, but they’ll certainly play a large role in cybercrimes of the future. In 2019, we published an article about deepfakes and the technology behind them. Driverless vehicles being used as weapons.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

And as 2019 commences, a new iteration, referred to as “ page cache attacks ,” presents an insidious new way for attackers to bypass security systems and place phishing windows deep inside of legitimate applications. Vidar and microcode hacking are two grains of sand on the beachhead of 2019 cyber threats. ” Shared burden.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Cybersecurity: With increasing cyber threats, CIOs must prioritize cybersecurity, ensuring the protection of sensitive data and systems. " While the CIO is the focus of this blog, I'd be remiss to just ignore the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and the impacts AI and ML is having on the role.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

Credential harvesting attacks via phishing emails are now a daily occurrence. We have entered a new era of cyber threats. If measured as a country, cybercrime would possess the third-largest economy in the world, behind the U.S. Password leaks are commonplace.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They could be on the other side of the globe, part of a cybercrime regime that will never be discovered, much less brought to justice. The technology industry has met the dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks with an impressive set of tools to help companies mitigate the risks. But the situation isn’t hopeless.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

While antivirus software is an essential tool for protecting against malware and other cyber threats, it does not protect against these attacks. HYAS Protect is a cloud-based security solution that defends SMBs against DNS-based threats. DNS tunneling: An attacker uses DNS to exfiltrate data or gain remote access to a network.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Stop threats before they spread with automated website scanning and malware removal. The first step to implementing a proactive approach to cybersecurity is stopping threats before they spread or cause damage. Because cybercrime is big business (and the fastest-growing type of crime), new attack methods are always arising.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I've been recently working on several articles on the topic of threat intelligence and I came up with a proper article which I'll share in this post with the idea to improve my reader's situational awareness on the topic eventually improving the way they work and do threat intelligence gathering online. -. What use are they?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Even though many consider spam and phishing outdated techniques, they are still employed by cybercriminals today. In August 2021, a Revere Health employee was hacked through a phishing email attack which exposed approximately 12,000 patient medical records.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently launched a new website aimed at educating small business owners on the risks of cybercrime and the steps they can take to protect their business. It also has information on other cyber threats such as ransomware and phishing schemes targeting small businesses.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Cybercrime has been a prominent side effect of the pandemic throughout the past year. State-sponsored spear-phishing. Threat actors sent a series of spear-phishing emails to organizations involved in COVID vaccine storage and transport.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Businesses try to build a secure online presence through blogs, webinars, training, and more. These exploits can be seen in the swells of cybercrime that have popped up across various countries in Africa. The vocabulary of cybersecurity. billion in losses overall in Africa.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Ransomware attacks like the ones carried out by OnePercent Group have been crippling businesses across the country since the FBI first reported a 37% uptick in cybercrime in 2018. OnePercent utilizes a malicious file attachment via phishing email. OnePercent Group attacks.

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BH Consulting

MAY 23, 2023

Say it again, I double dare you Anyone familiar with phishing and social engineering will know scammers often use psychological tricks to get victims to divulge personal data. Repetition can lead people to over-disclose information, that could then put them at risk of identity theft and cybercrime.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

Cybercrime: An Equal Opportunity Player When the media covers a cyber attack, the victim is usually a large and high-profile enterprise, a federal government agency, a popular app, or an international hotel chain. Luckily, you can deploy one solution to defend against a broad range of DNS-based threats.

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SC Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

The Russian state-sponsored hackers behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack relied on a decidedly more cybercrime-styled playbook for their latest reported attack, launching a sweeping phishing campaign designed to distribute malware to organizations via weaponized communications sent from a compromised email marketing account.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 7, 2024

In this blog, we’ll […] The post Alert: Carbanak Malware Strikes Again With Updated Tactics appeared first on TuxCare. As per the reports, it’s a banking malware used in ransomware attacks that leverages updated tactics for increased effectiveness.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2022

Dear blog readers, In this post I've decided to share actionable intelligence on the online infrastructure of FBI's Most Wanted Iran's Mabna Hackers for the purpose of assisting everyone in their cyber attack and cyber threat actor attribution campaigns. lib-service[.]com. ebookfafa[.]com. librarylog[.]in. e-library[.]me.

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Herjavec Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

With an increase in online activity comes an increase in the risk of cyber threats. My gift to you this holiday season is a list of tips that will help you as a customer avoid adding cybercrime to that long list of stressors. We pride ourselves on keeping enterprises around the world secure from the threat of cybercrime.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2023

It’s the infrastructure of cybercrime; the infrastructure they use on the internet to deliver instructions. We founded HYAS with a mission to tackle cyber threats differently — to use our expertise in adversary infrastructure to discover threats before they become attacks.

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Herjavec Group

JULY 29, 2021

But in spite of it all, the cybersecurity industry and the professionals within it continue to step up and tirelessly work to protect organizations against cyber threats. For every attack we hear about on the news, there are a hundred more that were prevented or detected and responded to by the cyber heroes behind the scenes.

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Digital Shadows

JULY 5, 2021

Researchers initially attributed this attack to ransomware gang “REvil” (aka Sodinokibi), whose members claimed responsibility in a press release on their dark-web data-leak site, Happy Blog. A view of Digital Shadows’ SearchLight™ REvil (aka Sodinokibi) threat profile REvil operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) criminal operation.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Gone are the days where defending your enterprise from cyber threats and knowing how to properly respond to an incident was on your IT department’s shoulders alone. Your team should know how to identify and properly respond to potentially malicious activity like phishing emails that could lead to ransomware infections.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In May of 2020, Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware group listed Grubman, Shire, Meiselas, & Sacks on their data leak site “Happy Blog”. Now It’s crystal clear from just these few stories that the cyber threat to the legal sector is significant and growing. Deepfakes are growing and the prices to procure them are failing.

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