Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The emails were disguised to look as if they come from the Central Bank of Russia and FinCERT, the Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team. Group-IB experts have discovered that the attack on 15 November could have been carried out by the hacker group Silence , and the one on 23 October by MoneyTaker. About Silence.

Banking 108

Banking Computers and Electronics Phishing Cybercrime 108

Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

A mysterious group of hackers carried out a series of cyber attacks against Croatian government agencies, infecting employees with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. The SilentTrinity malware can take control over an infected computer, it allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Government 91

Government Malware Computers and Electronics Advertising 91

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 31, 2022

Organizations in the finance sector manage trillions of dollars and maintain very valuable and vital electronic data, including bank account, credit card, and transaction information as well as sensitive data related to estates, wills, titles, and other matters. Malware and ransomware attacks increase. Thu, 09/01/2022 - 05:15.

Financial Services 62

Financial Services Cybersecurity Computers and Electronics Banking 62

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

However she doesn’t know when the cyber attack will happen, what infrastructures the attacker will hit and what technique the attacker will use (phishing, exploiting, scam, etc). Moreover Alice is definitely not sure 100% the countermeasures she adopted will be enough strong to defeat the upcoming cyber attack.

Computers and Electronics 81

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Education Cybersecurity 81

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Attackers hacked support agent to access Microsoft Outlook email accounts. Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers. A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks. Ecuador suffered 40 Million Cyber attacks after the Julian Assange arrest.

Computers and Electronics 65

Computers and Electronics Spyware Data breaches DNS 65

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Group-IB security experts are warning about the increasing scammers’ activity during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales. Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, warns about the increasing scammers’ activity during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales.

Scams 66

Scams Computers and Electronics Phishing Advertising 66

The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

The Shamoon “wiper” virus , for instance, devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco, destroying the hard drives of more than 30,000 Aramaco computers and forcing a weeklong shutdown of the company’s internal network. Shamoon motivated the Saudis to seriously ramp up the work of its National Cyber Security Center.

Computers and Electronics 113

Computers and Electronics Data privacy Encryption Media 113

NopSec

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The year 2016 will be remembered for some big moments in the world of cybersecurity: the largest known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a phishing attack on a United States presidential candidate’s campaign, and ransomware attacks on major healthcare organizations are just a few. For a preview, read on.

Cybersecurity 40

Cybersecurity DDOS IoT Social Engineering 40

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Malware, a combination of the terms ‘malicious’ and ‘software,’ includes all malicious programs that intend to exploit computer devices or entire network infrastructures to extract victim’s data, disrupt business operations, or simply, cause chaos. Unfortunately, this could be your computer trying to give away the presence of malware.

Cyber threats 113

Cyber threats Computers and Electronics Adware Spyware 113

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Malware, a combination of the terms ‘malicious’ and ‘software,’ includes all malicious programs that intend to exploit computer devices or entire network infrastructures to extract victim’s data, disrupt business operations, or simply, cause chaos. Unfortunately, this could be your computer trying to give away the presence of malware.

Malware 107

Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Spyware 107

Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Basic Web Application Attacks: SQL Injection, exploiting vulnerabilities, using stolen credentials. Social Engineering: phishing emails, texts, phone calls. phish email, not Phish the band), and tallied the number of hits in each category by outlet. Password stuffing, cracking, guessing, spraying.

Cybersecurity 106

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Data breaches Engineering 106

Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This time around, if you thought ransomware and phishing should have been at the top (these fall under System Intrusion and Social Engineering ) you would have been right! phish email, not Phish the band), and tallied the number of hits in each category by outlet. But that wasn’t what the DBIR data had shown.

Data breaches 106

Data breaches Social Engineering Engineering Phishing 106

Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

phish email, not Phish the band), and tallied the number of hits in each category by outlet. Our Methodology To perform the searches, we compiled a list of keywords and search terms (like “phishing” or “social engineering”) for each of the eight DBIR cybersecurity incident and breach cause groups. Curious to see it in action?

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Social Engineering Engineering Phishing 98

Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Today, many reports are describing how infamous attackers are abusing such an emergency time to lure people by sending thematic email campaigns or by using thematic IM within Malware or Phishing links. Following few of them that I believe would be a nice reading: New Cyber Attack Campaign Leverages the COVID-19 Infodemic.

Computers and Electronics 110

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Malware Cyber Attacks 110

Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Basic Web Application Attacks: SQL Injection, exploiting vulnerabilities, using stolen credentials. Social Engineering: phishing emails, texts, phone calls. phish email, not Phish the band), and tallied the number of hits in each category by outlet. Password stuffing, cracking, guessing, spraying.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Data breaches Engineering 52

Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This time around, if you thought ransomware and phishing should have been at the top (these fall under System Intrusion and Social Engineering ) you would have been right! phish email, not Phish the band), and tallied the number of hits in each category by outlet. But that wasn’t what the DBIR data had shown.

Data breaches 52

Data breaches Social Engineering Engineering Phishing 52

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Anyone who has used a computer for any significant length of time has probably at least heard of malware. A report from IBM claims that 21% of all cyber attacks the company remediated in 2021 were ransomware, making it the most common type of attack in the report. Need More Intel on Rootkits?

Malware 64

Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 64

Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

For example by using: user credential leaks, social engineering toolkits, targeted phishing, and so on and so forth or is more on there to be discovered ? Cleaver attack capabilities are evolved over time very quickly and, according to Cylance, active since 2012. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

Computers and Electronics 91

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Malware Government 91

Cisco Security

JUNE 25, 2021

I grew up as a computer obsessed misfit in sportsmad rural Ireland. The teachers in the local high school, St Muredachs, did their best to cover the emerging field of Computer Science, and I cannot thank them enough for being my introduction to everything cyber. Cyber attacks during the pandemic escalated by as much as 600%.

CISO 74

CISO Healthcare InfoSec Computers and Electronics 74

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. It is thought to be the first computer virus. . years of probation.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135