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Government Employees at High Risk for Mobile Phishing

SecureWorld News

New research from Lookout reveals the most common mobile threats aimed at federal, state, and local government agencies and their employees—all of which have increased since 2021. One in eight government employees were exposed to phishing threats. Federal workers have more restrictions on BYOD devices.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 452 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

INC RANSOM ransomware gang claims to have breached Xerox Corp Spotify music converter TuneFab puts users at risk Cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania Russia-linked APT28 used new malware in a recent phishing campaign Clash of Clans gamers at risk while using third-party app New Version of Meduza (..)

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The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure andrew.gertz@t… Mon, 10/23/2023 - 14:07 Cyberattacks on critical vital infrastructure can have disastrous results, forcing governments and regulatory bodies to pay close attention to intensifying the efforts to safeguard these industries.

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Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

What would the consequences be if such an event happens were to happen on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or during the holiday shopping season? Retailers started the century as the prime targets for cyber attackers looking for credit card data. Of course, the common attack method is phishing, and its related form, whaling.

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To Fix DMARC Requires Angry Customers

eSecurity Planet

A new Cloudflare phishing report notes that most of the 1 billion brand impersonation emails the company detected “passed” SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email authentication protocols. At the same time, an organization is also quite likely to fall for business email compromise and phishing attacks from their vendors.

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One Year Later: What Have We Learned Since the Colonial Pipeline Attack

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

However, even after the Colonial Pipeline attack, less than half of businesses (48%) have a formal ransomware plan according to the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report. In addition, the report found that one in five businesses have paid or would pay a ransom to get their data. Governments step up to protect all businesses.

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Financial services continue to lead in cybersecurity preparedness, but chinks appear in the armor

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

However, all this attention from cyber criminals, as well as regulators and governments, has produced an extremely resilient industry with some of the best cyber security practices of any sector. Malware and ransomware attacks increase. Malware and ransomware attacks increase. More About This Author >.