Adam Levin

JUNE 30, 2020

No industry, category, size, or group is safe from this cyber scourge. In fact, what may matter more is how easy you are to hack. A 2019 study showed that 80 percent of IT business leaders expected a critical breach or a successful cyberattack within a year, double what a similar study had indicated in 2015.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) recently made a statement accusing the United States National Security Agency (NSA) of repeatedly hacking the Northwestern Polytechnical University, a key public military research university located in Xi'an, China. TAO is a tactical implementation unit of the U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2022

Key Shield deters cyberattacks by making it nearly impossible to anticipate how to analyze and hack in the first place – building secure architectures, protecting valuable data and ensuring constant control of cryptographic keys. Click here for more information on this year’s Cybersecurity Excellence Awards program and its winners.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In addition to the general data, we provided a number of options for classifying phishing pages according to formal criteria and analyzed the results for each of them. Data retrieval method. Websites were selected for this study which our signature anti-phishing engine identified as “phishing” threats from July 19 to August 2, 2021.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 20, 2020

The Verizon DBIR says tactics utilized or involved in confirmed data breaches are as follows: • 45% of breaches featured hacking • 22% included social engineering • 22% were made possible by errors • 17% involved malware • 8% of breaches involved misuse by authorized users. Who are the threat actors behind these cyber attacks? Why is this?

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 13, 2023

The IC3 serves as a public resource to submit reports of cyberattacks and incidents, which also allows the FBI to collect data and identify trends. ” Within the category of investment fraud, a major role is taken up by crypto-investment fraud. Hacked social media accounts. Retirement, 401K, Ponzi, Pyramid, etc.).”

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2022

While Apple presents this Lockdown Mode as something that can completely protect a mobile device from a cyberattack, in reality, it's a bit more complicated than that. Apple also established a new category in its Apple Security Bounty program that will reward those who find security flaws in Lockdown Mode.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

However, brute-force hacking has reached the point that seven-character passwords with complexity will be brute-forced nearly immediately and eight-character passwords merely take one hour to crack. Authentication can be set up via one of four categories: Something you are: Biometrics, such as facial recognition, thumbprint, voiceprint, etc.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Phishing is today’s most dangerous cyberattack. It is the gateway to many types of damaging cyberattack including ransomware, malware, business email compromise (BEC), spoofing, identity theft, brand impersonation and credential compromise. So did the 2020 Twitter hack. Phishing doesn’t discriminate.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 26, 2022

In the past five years, 70% of these organizations reported an attack, and 40% experienced a cyberattack in the past year. According to Titaniam, more than 75% of organizations surveyed had all three significant categories of ransomware protection: 78% had data security and safety measures. Exfiltration Attacks Surge.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2021

Threat hunting and adversarial cyber intelligence company Group-IB published a comprehensive analysis of fraud cases on a global scale. Overall, fraud accounts for 73% of all online attacks: 56% are scams (fraud that results in the victim voluntarily disclosing sensitive data) and 17% are phishing attacks (theft of bank card details).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. It came as no surprise that web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic : it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Machine identities are stolen and used in cyberattacks. We see this playout frequently when major systems are hacked and compromised and when payment systems fail because of the absence of an organizing function. A new category was created — Machine Identity Management. Software is rapidly eating the world.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 10, 2022

Category Awareness, Case Study, Vulnerability. When we think of nation-state hacking most of us have a western skew, immediately think of “the usual suspects”, China, North Korea, and Russia. When we think of nation-state hacking most of us have a western skew, immediately think of “the usual suspects”, China, North Korea, and Russia.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

Semi-Structured Data: Semi-structured data lies between the structured and unstructured categories. What are the causes of Data Loss and which are their impact on your organization? Simply put, businesses heavily rely on data. It is usually stored in databases and can be easily categorized and analyzed.

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SecureList

JULY 1, 2021

And not long ago at the beginning of June 2021, one of the largest gaming companies — EA Games — was hacked , with attackers managing to steal the source code for several games. Last year, we decided to take a look at how the pandemic influenced the gaming industry and what new threats gamers could be facing. Source: steamdb.info.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Cyberattacks now fall into its jurisdiction. 6 ways to hack the ransomware puzzle. 6 ways to hack the ransomware puzzle. When you think of the U.S. Secret Service, a certain image might come to mind of men in dark suits, dark glasses, and an earpiece who serve as bodyguards to the president. Assistant Director of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Group-IB analysts divide alternative ways for cybercriminals to obtain data into two major categories: local (when the data is stored in a file located on the phishing resource itself) and remote (when it is sent to a different server). email clients, and — traditionally — financial organizations.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 24, 2023

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Guides Risk Level Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, AHOY! A hacked account can damage your reputation by disseminating false or offensive content. A hacked account can damage your reputation by disseminating false or offensive content. Why should I secure my social media accounts?”

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 24, 2023

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Guides Risk Level Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, AHOY! A hacked account can damage your reputation by disseminating false or offensive content. A hacked account can damage your reputation by disseminating false or offensive content. Why should I secure my social media accounts?”

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We conducted an analysis of the IoT threat landscape for 2023, as well as the products and services offered on the dark web related to hacking connected devices. IoT devices (routers, cameras, NAS boxes, and smart home components) multiply every year. Statista portal predicts their number will exceed 29 billion by 2030.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

Cyberattacks are not only a technological problem for companies, but they also represent a very real financial threat. That’s where cyber insurance may be able to help. According to the Ponemon Institute and IBM, the global average cost of a data breach is $4.24 million and climbing. was worth roughly $4.1 was worth roughly $4.1 That’s a 29.1%

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2021

On October 12, after interviewing US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, USA TODAY’s editorial board warned its readers about a dangerous new form of cyberattack under this eye-catching headline: “ The next big cyberthreat isn’t ransomware. It’s killware. And it’s just as bad as it sounds.”.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Research conducted by the National Cyber Security Alliance estimated that 60% of small and medium-sized businesses go out of business within six months of being hacked. For cybersecurity personnel, our scope of responsibility may be limited to cyberattacks on IT systems, such as ransomware attacks, phishing attacks, and DDoS attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ransomware is one of the fastest-growing and most destructive cyber threats today. Cybersecurity researchers largely agree that ransomware growth has been astronomical; the only question is by how much. You still need to do the basics right, like employee cybersecurity training and patching ; those two areas alone could greatly reduce risk.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

First of all, what is a cyberattack? How can your business minimize the risk of a cyberattack on your business-critical data? Never has there been a more dangerous time for your business and your data. On the world scene, 2020 has already been a challenging year for businesses across the board with COVID-19. What Is a Cyber Attack?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Unfortunately, text-based email protocols are extremely vulnerable to hacking and email has become the primary vector for cyber attacks. Microsoft estimates that 94% of cyberattacks begin with a malicious email — a horrific statistic that can be dramatically reduced by adopting email security standards, tools, and services.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

No vulnerable code is hacked, and no employee is phished or infected with malware – yet these bots can create a lot of angry, dissatisfied customers and hurt a company’s bottom line. Traditionally we’ve had a lot of frameworks around understanding how your traditional technical cyberattack works,” said Gracey-McMinn.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 28, 2021

PETAH TIKVA, Israel–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Minerva Labs , a leading provider of pre-execution, active threat prevention platform, announced today that it has won the 2021 CyberSecured Awards in the Remote Work category. In the second year of this independently judged contest, winners will receive awards for their recognized products.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Figure 1 The distribution of web-phishing among target categories . It should be noted that some of the tech companies provide a wide range of Internet-related services and some of them, like cloud storages and email services, form separate categories. Diligent phishers. Target reshuffle. Malware delivery: what’s on the menu?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Cloud storage security issues refer to the operational and functional challenges that organizations and consumers encounter when storing data in the cloud. The issues stem from internal lapses or deficiencies and may not always include external threats. Monitor and employ automated failover to improve resilience while minimizing attack incidents.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 11, 2023

By Chinatu Uzuegbu, CISSP, CEO/Managing Cyber Security Consultant at RoseTech CyberCrime Solutions Ltd. We kicked off the Identity and Access Management Processes from the Top-Level Management approach. The group met and established the governing policy around the Identity and Access Management Processes.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

Like any other criminal hack. So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. But how might it actually happen? And how might we defend ourselves? The reality is much more complicated.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. TLS and HTTPS inherently create secured and encrypted sessions for communication.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

IT threat evolution in Q1 2023 IT threat evolution in Q1 2023. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q1 2023. Mobile statistics These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products and services received from users who consented to providing statistical data. 2 Afghanistan 4.6 3 Paraguay 2.8 4 Tajikistan 2.8 5 Yemen 2.3

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

Two pieces of malware — a Trojan called HermeticWiper that destroys data and a cryptor called HermeticRansom — were both used in cyberattacks in Ukraine. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. Non-mobile statistics. IT threat evolution in Q1 2022. Mobile statistics. Quarterly figures. Financial threats. Financial threat statistics.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It’s not enough for the average person to be afraid of cyberattacks. In 2015, Chinese military hackers hacked the Office of Personal Management and made off with the highly personal information of about 22 million Americans who had security clearances. Not minimal-change seriously. Not here-and-there seriously. But really seriously.

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