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Smooth Cybercriminals: Google Warns of Iran-Backed APT Hackers

SecureWorld News

One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S. Read Google's official TAG blog to learn more about the technical details.

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Microsoft Targets Critical Outlook Zero-Day Flaw

eSecurity Planet

. “An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could access a user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash which could be used as a basis of an NTLM Relay attack against another service to authenticate as the user,” the company wrote. Performing this mitigation makes troubleshooting easier than other methods of disabling NTLM.

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Five Key Points When Preventing Cybersecurity Attacks in a World of Hybrid Working

Security Boulevard

<a href='/blog?tag=Endpoint tag=Endpoint Protection'>Endpoint Protection</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Loss Prevention'>Data Loss Prevention</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Advanced

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Cyber Playbook: An Overview of PCI Compliance in 2022

Herjavec Group

Being PCI compliant is essential to properly handle sensitive data including payment card data, cardholder data, and even sensitive authentication data. Traditional penetration testing and application security assessment tools, methods, and techniques tend to neglect this attack surface. The Solution. PCI Data Security Standards v4.0.

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Bad Actor Using New Method to Avert Detection, Google Discovers

SecureWorld News

In a blog post, Neel Mehta, Information Security lead for Google, explains how a hacker has managed to break certificate code parsing to invade email inboxes and infect users with malware. According to Google, this actor began using this method in the summer of 2021. Faking legitimate code signatures: how does it work?

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Another NFT explainer, with a bonus look at the data security implications

Webroot

A distributed group of devices does the work to vouch for the authenticity of the token the same way it does for a bitcoin. An often used and helpful analogy is to certificates of authenticity (COA) like those used in the art world. Even less surprising than the theft are the methods used to do it.

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How to evolve your organization into a data-centric security architecture

CyberSecurity Insiders

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Users may also need to re authenticate themselves if they choose to switch tasks or have been inactive for a set amount of time. How you choose to authenticate users is up to you. Some teams choose to use tags, so they are able to rapidly search for items.