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Ransomware: 8 Things That You Must Know

Joseph Steinberg

Ransomware comes in multiple flavors – sometimes involving far more than just the unauthorized encryption of data. Criminals may utilize all sorts of social engineering approaches, as well as technical exploits, in order to deliver their ransomware into their intended targets.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Never Mess With A Hacker

ForAllSecure

Lately, though, the TSA in the United States has been upgrading its scanning machines so that everyone -- not just those who pay to be Clear and TSA Pre -- can go through without having to take electronic items out of your luggage. Kevin did time, and afterward has devoted his life to teaching others about social engineering attacks.

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Crimeware and financial cyberthreats in 2023

SecureList

In the scramble for cryptocurrency investment opportunities, we believe that cybercriminals will take advantage of fabricating and selling rogue devices with backdoors, followed by social engineering campaigns and other methods to steal victims’ financial assets.

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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

SecureList

Data from the Brazilian Federation of Banks registered a considerable increase in crime (such as explosions at bank branches to steal money) and cybercrime (increased phishing and social-engineering attacks) against banking customers and banking infrastructure. Of course, this is the result of economic problems caused by the pandemic.

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How to Write a Pentesting Report – With Checklist

eSecurity Planet

However, a recommendation to simply replace the old computer with a Windows 11 machine will be useless to the client that can only use Windows XP with that equipment. Acronym Appendix Security and IT use an enormous number of acronyms for technologies, vulnerabilities, protocols, etc. Physical reports should be numbered and tracked.

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Negotiating with Ransomware Gangs: What's It Really Like?

SecureWorld News

The days where victims could simply pay ransom for an encryption key, unscramble their data, and move on are ending. Their new trick is to extract precious company data before encrypting it, so the attacks pack a one-two punch—they threaten embarrassing data breaches on top of crippling data destruction.

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The Cybersecurity Perception Problem in 2023

Approachable Cyber Threats

Source: Verizon DBIR [1] In last year’s DBIR report [2], Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all cybersecurity data breach events, with Denial of Service being the number one cybersecurity incident covering almost 50% of all events. For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g.