Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

The recent Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Report shows that cybercrime has spiked, leaving hundreds of thousands of victims and costing more than $4 billion. Moreover, losses due to internet crime increased by $700 million, growing from $3.5 Phishing Scams. Keep your computer safe and virus-free.

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Webroot

JUNE 17, 2025

Phishing scams: Phishing scams that target travel-related platforms are on the rise. In 2024, the travel website booking.com reported a 500%-900% increase in travel-related phishing scams. While convenient, these public computers may be risky, as attackers can plant malware or install hardware that records your keystrokes.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Microsoft sued Thallium North Korea-linked APT for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. Microsoft sued a North Korea-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Thallium for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. 27 in the U.S. 27 in the U.S.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. million detections compared to 5.04

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 20, 2022

The DOJ says RSOCKS initially targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers, though it expanded to targeting additional types of devices including conventional computers.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In Q3 2021 , online stores were in second place by share of recorded phishing attacks (20.63%). In this research, we analyzed various types of threats: financial malware associated with major online shopping platforms as well as phishing pages and fake websites mimicking the world’s biggest retail platforms. Methodology.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

billion from banks in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Mexico, Malta, and Africa by hacking the banks' computer networks and sending fraudulent Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) messages. The hackers employed false and fraudulent personas when they sent spear-phishing messages to victims.

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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. Of course, the CBR does not have anything to do with the phishing campaign – the hackers faked the sender’s address. All messages sent via email contain FinCERT’s electronic signature.”.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Malware has infected roughly a third of the world’s computers , costing companies across the globe trillions of dollars each year. Millions of websites across the internet also contain vulnerabilities that make them easy targets. This software will generally fall into one of two categories: website or computer malware.

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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.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

In a cybersecurity notice, TGH said it noticed unusual activity on its computer systems on May 31, 2023. According to TGH, the criminals did not access the hospital's electronic medical record system. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. Watch out for fake vendors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. About the author: Salvatore Lombardo.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

According to Paul Boghossian (Fear of Knowledge, Against Relativism and Constructivism), Luciano Floridi ( The Fourth Information Revolution and its Ethical and Policy Implications) and the internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy we might divide knowledge into 4 separate categories. Section 1: The certainty. The information that I had.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

As networks evolved and organizations adopted internet communications for critical business processes, these cryptographic systems became essential for protecting data. Quantum computing attacks already present a real threat to existing standards, making the continued development of encryption pivotal for years to come.

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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. Ransomware The U.S.

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The Security Ledger

JULY 10, 2018

. » Related Stories Episode 100: Estonia’s Former CIO talks about engineering a secure electronic vote Fitness apps: Good for your health, not so much for military security Episode 101: The Dystopian IoT looks a lot like the Printer Ink Aisle and City of Atlanta Employees phished on Rogue Wi-Fi. That future seems bright.

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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. A few months later the UAE stood up its National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which proceeded to do much the same thing.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The European Union is poised to place more demands on manufacturers to design greater security into their wireless and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The result has been devices with trivial vulnerabilities or flaws that have been solved for a decade or longer in traditional computing. Device Maintenance Still Needed. “New

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SecureList

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Grandoreiro is a well-known Brazilian banking trojan — part of the Tetrade umbrella — that enables threat actors to perform fraudulent banking operations by using the victim’s computer to bypass the security measures of banking institutions. For example, the emails distributed in most of Latin America are in Spanish.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In the past, we have experienced, and in the future, we may again experience, data security incidents resulting from unauthorized access to our and our service providers’ systems and unauthorized acquisition of our data and our clients’ data including: inadvertent disclosure, misconfiguration of systems, phishing ransomware or malware attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Starting our list of the top database security vendors is the multinational cloud computing company, Alibaba Cloud. As is true with any cloud service, the Seattle cloud computing company emphasizes the shared responsibility model. One such example is the addition of cloud computing service Microsoft Azure in 2008. Alibaba Cloud.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A token acts as an electronic cryptographic key that unlocks the device or application, usually with an encrypted password or biometric data. Disconnected tokens are generally only good for one use and can be delivered via RFID or Bluetooth, or users can manually enter them into the computer. Rise of multi-factor authentication.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This is a perfectly adequate solution, adding yet another computer to their little network would be overkill, and add as many security problems as it solved. The “electron records” laws don’t cover the operating-system. Credential Management. It is true the EMS operating-system logs are not preserved (well, generally not preserved).

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Errata Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This is a perfectly adequate solution, adding yet another computer to their little network would be overkill, and add as many security problems as it solved. The “electron records” laws don’t cover the operating-system. Credential Management Like the other sections, this claim is out of place given the airgapped nature of the network.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Cloud Cybersecurity Cybersecurity is the methodology that protects electronic data from cyber criminals. A simple misconfiguration of permissions or accidental exposure of data to the public Internet can serve up very sensitive data that is wide open for consumption. However, this is not true. This includes cloud environments.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

The healthcare industry in general houses a massive amount of electronic data about patients including protected health information to financial information. Today’s hospitals use a myriad of electronic devices to service patients. Health information is also becoming a target of attackers.

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SecureList

AUGUST 5, 2021

A fake notification about a Microsoft Teams meeting or a request to view an important document traditionally takes the victim to a phishing login page asking for corporate account credentials. These malicious programs, disguised as electronic documents, are often distributed in archives. Statistics: phishing. Top-level domains.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

However, traditional financial threats – such as banking malware and financial phishing, continue to take up a significant share of such financially-motivated cyberattacks. BlueNoroff developed an elaborate phishing campaign that targeted startups and distributed malware for stealing all crypto in the account tied to the device.

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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.

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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.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Fake leather bags, sunglasses, sportswear, electronics and perfumes pose risks to consumers. Scammers create fake websites to advertise and sell counterfeit goods, such as computers and electronics, clothing, jewelry, accessories, beauty and personal care products and even medicine usually with discounts that reach 80%.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

million redirects to phishing pages. If previously they were dominated by IT topics (problems with Windows, suspicious activity on the computer, etc.), The share of the Badun family, which consists of various malware disguised as electronic documents, decreased slightly, pushing it into second place. Statistics: phishing.

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Security Through Education

JUNE 22, 2021

Throughout the scam, fraudsters will often build trust with their targets via computer, phone, and the mail. Computer tech support scams. Computer technical support scams prey on people’s lack of knowledge about computers and cybersecurity. Internet and email fraud. Sweepstakes & lottery scams. Romance Scams.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

In fact, the FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 2020 Internet Crime Report , refers to what is happening as an “ Internet crime spree.” billion people were active internet users as of October 2020. “Mobile phishing increases more than 300% as 2020 chaos continues.” COVID-19 Scams.

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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! If the news media and the internet are leading us astray, maybe we can pinpoint what those influences are and systematically reduce our bias on those topics.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

If the news media and the internet are leading us astray, maybe we can pinpoint what those influences are and systematically reduce our bias on those topics. phish email, not Phish the band), and tallied the number of hits in each category by outlet. What did “the internet” think was causing breaches in 2020? Try it out!

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Anyone who has used a computer for any significant length of time has probably at least heard of malware. Today, malware is a common threat to the devices and data of anyone who uses the Internet. Ransomware is one of the most virulent forms of malware on the modern Internet. Need More Intel on Rootkits?

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