Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 21, 2022

The threat of attacks against Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) – energy, utilities, telecommunications, and transportation – is now front of mind for many. This includes using easily guessed passwords and falling victim to phishing and socially engineered techniques such as business email compromise.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

This breach, like every major ransomware attack, was likely because of spear phishing, where someone either received the malware via an emailed attachment or clicked on a link that took them to a website that hosted it. It triangulates my work and underscores its validity for solving the problem of spear phishing.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Phishing attacks are going to become even more sophisticated, since a lot of basic tactics have already been tried this year, and businesses learned to repel those. The economic downturn (caused by energy prices, inflation, sanctions, etc.) Yury Slobodyanuk , head of content filtering research, Kaspersky.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion.

Hacking 212

Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

You may use a VPN or install utilities to capture and forward traffic to other subnets, or configure proxychains. There are multiple other attack angles to test, including: Network compromises Social engineering (e.g., Besides, attacking tools can send multiple probes or headers along with their requests (e.g.,

Penetration Testing 141

Penetration Testing Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Hacking 141

Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

Networks can also be easily breached by social engineering, password theft, or tainted USBs, as in the Stuxnet attack. . . A few years ago, a group of attackers used the Trojan to deploy SCADA-related plugins against victims in energy and ICS/SCADA networks in Ukraine and around the world. Additional Learning.

Energy and Utilities 72

Energy and Utilities Malware DDOS Internet 72

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Before companies can effectively and safely use generative AI tools, employees must be educated on utilizing best practices: writing prompts that achieve desired outcomes, keeping data security and privacy in mind when inputting data, identifying the quality and security of AI, verifying AI output, and more,” elaborates Arti Raman, CEO Portal26.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

APT targeting turns toward satellite technologies, producers and operators The only known case of an attack utilizing satellite technologies that happened in recent years was the KA-SAT network hack of 2022. Spear-phishing to expand with accessible generative AI Chatbots and generative AI tools are now widespread and easily accessible.

Hacking 109

Hacking Energy and Utilities Media Malware 109

Herjavec Group

JULY 29, 2021

I’ve always believed that the best way to build a strong cybersecurity program is to utilize all the data. Threat actors have developed social engineering approaches that leverage the uncertainty and chaos of the pandemic in order to deliver their malicious software. Ransomeware-as-a-Service.

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