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Cybercrime Statistics in 2019

Security Affairs

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020. Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 373 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

Unfaithful HackerOne employee steals bug reports to claim additional bounties Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2022-26925 by July 22 Tens of Jenkins plugins are affected by zero-day vulnerabilities Microsoft: Raspberry Robin worm already infected hundreds of networks. Upgrade it now!

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Hacker Personas Explained: Know Your Enemy and Protect Your Business

Webroot

An impersonation attack recently made headlines with the 2020 Twitter/Bitcoin scam , in which 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised by outside parties to steal bitcoin. This is a scam that’s been around for years and since no one can reverse a cryptocurrency transaction, it’s very likely here to stay.

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Financial cyberthreats in 2022

SecureList

However, traditional financial threats – such as banking malware and financial phishing, continue to take up a significant share of such financially-motivated cyberattacks. We previously reported on the Lazarus group, which developed VHD ransomware for the purpose of monetary gain. of all phishing attacks in 2022.

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Financial cyberthreats in 2021

SecureList

This report aims to offer thorough insights into the financial cyberthreat landscape in 2021. The research in this report is a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the threat landscape. Key findings.

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Balancing Safety and Security During a Year of Remote Working

Cisco Security

In a post during the early “lockdown” days, Cisco’s Ben Nahorney outlined some of the more salient security challenges of this new mode of working, including the need to secure the endpoint, set policies around sanctioned software, secure network connections, and of course, increase scam awareness.

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Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021

Security Boulevard

Computer Weekly said it had learnt that FatFace paid a £1.5m ($2 million US dollar) ransom to the Conti Ransomware gang , disclosing the gang gained access to FatFace network and their IT systems via a phishing email on 10th January 2021. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct employee phishing tests. Stolen in Pandemic Scams.