Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services in their ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. ” A phishing message targeting FTX users that went out en masse today.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2023

MERCURY (aka MuddyWater , SeedWorm and TEMP.Zagros ) has been active since at least 2017, in January 2022 the USCYBERCOM has officially linked the Iran-linked APT group to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). The attackers were able to interfere with security tools using Group Policy Objects (GPO).

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Unwanted emails steadily creeping into inboxes. of work emails are unwanted. Phishing remains the most common style of email attack, representing 39.6% The post Unwanted emails steadily creeping into inboxes appeared first on Help Net Security. Leer más Help Net Security. of work emails are unwanted.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Follow our Australia news liveblog for all the updates. La entrada Medibank says it won’t pay ransom for customer data stolen in cyber-attack se publicó primero en CISO2CISO.COM & CYBER SECURITY GROUP. Leer más Cybercrime | The Guardian.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Protection by ENS Module. For ENS, it’s important to have both Threat Protection (TP) and Adaptive Threat Protection (ATP) with GTI enabled. Protection by ENS Module. Preventing Exploit with McAfee ENS. Rule 312: Prevent email applications from spawning potentially malicious tools. Cobalt Strike BEACON.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Perception Point announced the publication of a report, “The Rise of Cyber Threats Against Email, Browsers and Emerging Cloud-Based Channels“, which evaluates the responses of security and IT decision-makers at large enterprises and reveals numerous significant findings about today’s enterprise threat landscape.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Ransomware , the headliner of the previous half-year, walked off stage: only 1 percent of emails analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB) contained this kind of malware. Opened email lets spy in. Secure web- phishing. These findings confirm adversaries’ growing interest in Big Game Hunting.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cory Doctorow does a great job explaining the context and the general security issues. Leer más Schneier on Security. La entrada An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers se publicó primero en CISO2CISO.COM & CYBER SECURITY GROUP. More details by Reardon. government agencies for more than a decade.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 282 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates. The post LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates appeared first on Security Boulevard. Leer más Security Boulevard. The post LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Among the many possible targets, new hires are particularly vulnerable to being duped by a convincing email, phone call or. The post Social Engineering Attacks on New Employees appeared first on Security Boulevard. Leer más Security Boulevard. The post Social Engineering Attacks on New Employees appeared first on Nuspire.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Because employees often use their business emails and cell phones as their primary point of contact, these scams quickly become a threat to employer computer systems. The post Here’s how to make sure your incident response strategy is ready for holiday hackers appeared first on Help Net Security. Leer más Help Net Security.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2021

No somos mejores en tecnología que otros Bancos pero estamos trabajando para superar esta contingencia — FIDEL EGAS (@FEGASG) October 11, 2021. An alleged member of the @HotarusCorp leaked on a hacking forum a link to a file containing 6500 records (Email, Identity Card numbers, and passwords) that claims to Ministry of Finance.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company, supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise (BEC) cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT by Group-IB.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

. “The state capital Potsdam has switched off the administration’s internet connection and is therefore no longer accessible by email.” “We put our systems offline for security reasons, because we have to assume an illegal cyber attack,” said Mayor Mike Schubert. ” reads the update.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

In our increasingly digital world, where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, cyber-security awareness has become an indispensable skill. Learn about strong password creation, multi-factor authentica-tion, secure browsing habits, and data encryption.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2020

The security researcher German Fernandez speculated the involvement of REvil ransomware in the attack against Telecom Argentina. Algunos sitios de #Telecom Argentina se encuentran con problemas en este momento, quizás relacionado al ataque. Many websites operated by Telecom Argentina were taken offline by the attack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The British National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released a guideline, dubbed The Vulnerability Disclosure Toolkit, for the implementation of a vulnerability disclosure process. Having a clearly signposted reporting process demonstrates that your organisation takes security seriously. ” states the document. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity examined a flood of inauthentic LinkedIn profiles all claiming Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at various Fortune 500 companies, including Biogen , Chevron , ExxonMobil , and Hewlett Packard. We’re also exploring new ways to protect our members such as expanding email domain verification.

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McAfee

APRIL 8, 2020

At McAfee, our job is to help secure the workloads and data that our customers rely on to power their business. This release of MVISION Cloud for Containers is about taking all the best practices around how these systems should be designed and giving customers a strong security foundation even in workloads as dynamic as containers.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Phishing and scam emails are – by some distance – the leading cause of ransomware infections, according to Statista. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report tells us that 82 per cent of security incidents have a human component. . Phishing emails or texts are precision crafted to unlock our defences.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 22, 2021

People aren’t taking the time to verify the authenticity of email senders and often click on links, open attachments, or even fill out forms without a second of thought. Phishing is a specific type of cyber attack through which hackers and scammers use email to trick you. Through phishing. What’s phishing again?” Who’s at risk?”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 3, 2023

By: Craig Debban , Chief Information Security Officer, QuSecure, Inc. No, the sky isn’t falling, and the everyday use of quantum computers is not occurring en masse just yet. As you may have noticed, daily headlines around quantum computing and its impact on technologies are becoming commonplace.

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Zigrin Security

APRIL 26, 2023

In this article As someone who tests web application security cautiously, Dawid discovered a vulnerability in MISP, a popular open-source platform for sharing and analyzing threat information. This is a security mechanism designed to prevent unauthorized changes to a user’s profile settings. Safari/537.36

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

Most often, the attacker will use lists of email addresses and passwords stolen en masse from hacked sites and then try those same credentials to see if they permit online access to accounts at a range of banks. Image: Hold Security. Only after verifying those exact amounts will the account-linking request be granted.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Over the past few weeks McAfee Labs has been observing a new phishing campaign using a fake voicemail message to lure victims into entering their Office 365 email credentials. McAfee Customers using VSE, ENS, Livesafe, WebAdvisor and Web Gateway are protected against this phishing campaign.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

According to a criminal complaint published by Argentina’s Unidad Fiscal Especializada en Ciberdelincuencia, the agency started receiving numerous tech support calls from checkpoints at approximately 7 AM on August 27th. Recently the FBI has issued a security alert about Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In just a year, they were able to steal a total of 11.72M USD (10M EUR) from hundreds of victims of phishing attacks and other fraudulent activities such as SIM swapping (also known as SIMjacking ), business email compromise (BEC) , and money muling.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Kevin Hertz, Voxox’s co-founder and chief technology officer, wrote in an email that the company is “looking into the issue and following standard data breach policy at the moment,” and that the company is “evaluating impact.” Security Affairs – Voxox, data leak). Security Affairs – Voxox, data leak). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 28, 2022

As a result of it, the customers of Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Secure Endpoint using GTA get better coverage of the threat now. According to the analysis presented by Brad Duncan [2], the attack vector seems to be phishing, via an email with an attached file (1). Windows NT; Windows NT %; en-US) WindowsPowerShell/5.1.%.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

From my experience as a Customer Success Engineer, many people want to apply RBAC to their applications’ security findings. Each row in the file defines: A user (users are identified via their email address). The post Automating Role-Based Access Control Assignments in ShiftLeft CORE appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

In July 2018, FireEye observed a series of new attacks of the group leveraging spear-phishing emails using weaponized Word documents that attempt to deliver the UPPERCUT backdoor, also tracked as ANEL. The post EU has imposed sanctions on foreign actors for the first time ever appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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McAfee

JANUARY 5, 2022

And even better, you found your way to ATR’s monthly security digest where we discuss our favorite vulnerabilities of the last 30 days. From a development perspective, security testing and unit tests should be leveraged to ensure the filtering you are putting in place is working the way it is intended to. Why am I here? .

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

In many cases, however, the attacker simply uses compromised accounts to order amenities, as there are generally fewer security checks associated with these services. Tax documents such as W-2s and 1040s can be purchased for around $1.04, while Social Security numbers range from $0.19 These items are then typically sold for profit.

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McAfee

JANUARY 17, 2020

The attacker would use spoofed Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) certificates for signing malicious files to evade detection or target specific hostnames to evade browser security alerts by making it appear the file was from a trusted, legitimate source. Microsoft’s security patches are available here.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

True, web attacks are not a thing of the past yet, but with increasing browser security, attacks via this vector have become much harder. A typical infection chain looked like this: a legitimate website was compromised — just five years ago securing websites wasn’t really the done thing.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Do you feel confident that everyone in your organization could identify a phishing email that contained ransomware? This information isn’t only for your security team, but also the C-suite and non-technical employees. Phishing attacks are opportunistic; generally, emails are blasted out en masse, making it a numbers game.

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