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Interpol offers online Cybersecurity Campaign

CyberSecurity Insiders

Interpol, the internationally recognized crime prevention agency, has announced an online campaign that will help individuals and companies protect their networks from state funded cyber attack campaigns.

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Group-IB presented latest cybercrime and nation-state hacking trends in Asia

Security Affairs

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. The Lazarus group will continue to attack banks and steal funds via SWIFT. New cybercrime groups are also expected to start operations in Asia and Latin America.

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Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor

Krebs on Security

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In mid-August, a member of a popular Russian-language cybercrime forum offered to sell access to the internal network of a U.S.

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Group-IB: $49.4 million of damage caused to Russia’s financial sector from cyber attacks

Security Affairs

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Security Affairs – financial sector, cybercrime ).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 304

Security Affairs

jailbreaking tool Attackers took over the Perl.com domain in September 2020 Bug bounty hunter awarded $50,000 for a Microsoft account hijack flaw Clop ransomware gang leaks data allegedly stolen from cybersecurity firm Qualys Cyber Defense Magazine – March 2021 has arrived. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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GUEST ESSAY: How SIEMS, UEBAs fall short in today’s turbulent threat landscape

The Last Watchdog

The average small and medium-size business experiences a cyber attack 44 times every day. And the cost of damage directly related to cybercrime is adding up, expected to reach $6 trillion by 2021. Many of these strictly defined categories are limiting in identifying and preventing today’s new crop of cyber attacks.

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Online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion

Security Affairs

Group-IB: The online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion, while the number of phishing attacks has surpassed 1,200 daily. Group-IB, an international company that specialises in the prevention of cyber attacks, has estimated that online sales of counterfeit goods are now worth $1.5 Pierluigi Paganini.