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5,200 Data Breaches Analyzed in Annual Verizon Report

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Verizon has released its 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the 16th annual publication providing an analysis of real-world data breaches and security incidents. No surprise, social engineering is mentioned right off the bat. These criminals' methods can be predictable.

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Cybersecurity Outlook 2022: Third-party, Ransomware and AI Attacks Will Get Worse

eSecurity Planet

AI is already used by security tools to detect unusual behavior , and Fortinet expects cybercriminals to use deep fakes and AI to mimic human activities to enhance social engineering attacks and bypass secure forms of authentication such as voiceprints or facial recognition. Cryptocurrency is the Wild West of the digital world today.

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IBM experts warn of malicious abuses of Apple Siri Shortcuts

Security Affairs

Attackers can also automate data collection from the device (user’s current physical address, IP address, contents of the clipboard, stored pictures/videos, contact information and more) and send them to the victims to scare them. Below some recommendations shared by the experts: Never install a Shortcut from an untrusted source.

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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2019 in more than 60 countries. Cybercriminals use social engineering techniques to convince users to click on malicious links or extract archives.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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Good game, well played: an overview of gaming-related cyberthreats in 2022

SecureList

Its main stealer functionality involves extracting data such as passwords, cookies, card details, and autofill data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallet secrets, credentials for VPN services, etc. Once a miner file is launched on an affected computer, it starts using the machine’s energy to mine cryptocurrency.

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Spam and phishing in 2022

SecureList

These sites referenced public figures and humanitarian groups, offering to accept cash in cryptocurrency, something that should have raised a red flag in itself. By getting the user’s secret phrase, cybercriminals could get access to their cryptocurrency balance. Now, attackers have started collecting Bitcoin for charity.

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