Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There were no social media sites to speak of, companies were selling antivirus and anti-Trojan solutions, but nobody cared about adware, PUPs, and assorted nuisances. Firewalls on the other hand were considered a lot more important back then. Phishing emails. After reading that story, I felt very sorry for that finance worker.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

Faced with customers trying to use WormGPT to create ransomware and phishing scams, the 23-year-old Portuguese programmer who created the project now says his service is slowly morphing into “a more controlled environment.” ” SlashNext asked WormGPT to compose this BEC phishing email. . Image: SlashNext.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

Stay informed about the latest cyber threats, such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and social engineering attacks. Regularly review privacy settings on social media platforms to ensure that your personal information is not being exposed to potential threats.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

Many users reuse the same password and username/email, so if those credentials are stolen from one site—say, in a data breach or phishing attack—attackers can use the same credentials to compromise accounts on other services. Using a forum or social media account to send phishing messages or spam.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 6, 2023

However, with proper training and coaching, they can become a human firewall and your last line of defence. With the proliferation of social engineering attacks, employees continue to be the biggest risk factor,” said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO, KnowBe4.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2023

Xplain hack impacted the Swiss cantonal police and Fedpol Zyxel published guidance for protecting devices from ongoing attacks Kimsuky APT poses as journalists and broadcast writers in its attacks New Linux Ransomware BlackSuit is similar to Royal ransomware CISA adds Progress MOVEit Transfer zero-day to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Watch what you post on social media; cybercriminals often use them to gather Personal Identifying Information (PII) and corporate information. Build a Human Firewall. Securing your work environment requires you to create what is referred to among security professionals as a human firewall. Don’t make passwords easy to guess.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Will Enable Mass Spying Reddit Says Leaked U.S.-U.K. billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

.” The NCSC also provided info about the initial infection vectors observed in the ransomware attacks: Insecure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configurations Vulnerable Software or Hardware Phishing emails. backup servers, network shares, servers, auditing devices). PowerShell) to easily deploy tooling or ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This puts organizations at risk as personal devices may not use the same levels of security, e.g., encryption and firewalls compared to a company device. Providing courses on phishing, password security, identity theft, and social engineering will prepare employees with correct cyber behaviors. The rise of cyber-attacks and phishing.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

Phishing attacks? The Livingston firewall rapidly became replaced with Checkpoint running on Windows NT server, (Stop laughing, I actually set one up once). Cisco came to market with the PIX firewall, Netscreen came to market with the ASIC based firewall, and suddenly, security had a voice. Answer: More capacity!

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SC Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

They could also phish certain policyholders. Brett Callow, malware analyst at Emsisoft, noted how certain threat actors – including the operators of the Clop ransomware who allegedly struck the file-sharing service Accellion – “use exfiltrated data to spear phish the third parties to which it relates.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The tools also depend upon physical controls that should also be implemented against malicious physical access to destroy or compromise networking equipment such as routers, cables, switches, firewalls, and other networking appliances. These physical controls do not rely upon IT technology and will be assumed to be in place.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

But when employees are working from home, they may be more likely to check personal email or social media accounts, leaving the door wide open for cybercriminals. A trained employee can act as a human firewall during a time when cybercriminals are taking advantage of a much larger issue, COVID-19. Communicate Security Best Practices.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

According to NSA and CISA, the service provides defenses in various points of the network exploitation lifecycle, addressing phishing, malware distribution, command and control, domain generation algorithms, and content filtering. The post NSA, CISA issue guidance on Protective DNS services appeared first on SC Media.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

Phishing & Watering Holes. The primary attack vector for most attacks, not just APTs, is to use phishing. Some APTs cast a wide net with general phishing attacks, but others use spear phishing attacks to target specific people and specific companies. Use web application firewalls to protect exposed web apps.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

My book emphasizes the heightened responsibility of C-suite leaders, considering the increased public, media, and regulator scrutiny. Sure, you need state-of-the-art cybersecurity technology like firewalls, anti-virus software, and intrusion detection systems to keep cybercriminals on the back foot. Will that have to change?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Iran-linked Charming Kitten group, (aka APT35 , Phosphorus , Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. . ” continues the report.”In

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Experts say the best defense is a multi-pronged network security strategy that includes a firewall, anti-malware software, network monitoring, intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS), and data protection. Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Social engineering can manifest itself across a wide range of cybersecurity attacks: Phishing Smishing Vishing Whaling Pharming Baiting Pretexting Scareware Deepfakes. Phishing is a broad category of social engineering attacks that specifically target most businesses’ primary mode of communication: email.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall has several new partner integrations. CyberArk reduces VPN risk with MFA enforcement on any VPN client that supports RADIUS; including Cisco Secure Firewall. HashiCorp (Terraform) provides infrastructure automation and now supports Secure Firewall ASA.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 8, 2020

Most home networks get broken into through either phishing or some random device they have with a bad password. Next come your social media accounts, and then any accounts that control IoT systems in your house. Do you have internet-connected lights, appliances, gaming systems, media systems, etc?

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Ransomware is a growing threat to every organisation on the planet; it seems we can’t go a day without seeing another high-profile ransomware attack being detailed in mainstream media. Ensure you have antivirus and firewalls deployed and enabled on all endpoints, especially if using your own personal devices. Sadly, that is wrong.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

SWGs achieve this by blocking web-based attacks that forward malware, phishing , drive-by downloads, ransomware, supply chain attacks , and command-and-control actions. Application control (granular social media controls, Office 365 support). Many of these vendors also rank on our top next-gen firewall (NGFW) page.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In this paradigm, the defender exploits (or engineers) favorable terrain (think: mountains, walls, checkpoints, or SMTP servers) to make costly obstacles that attempt to prevent attackers from getting themselves (or their phishing messages) inside. It biases us towards outside-in approaches to secure them—who doesn’t love a good firewall?

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2023

These unsolicited messages often contain malware, phishing links, or other deceptive content, intending to deceive unsuspecting recipients. Typically, hackers exploit people’s inclination to re-use login details across several online entities like websites, social media platforms, and others across sectors/industries.

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Webroot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Romance scams : Criminals pose as interested romantic partners on social media or dating websites to capitalize on their elderly victims’ desire to find companions. Since they form the basis of phishing attacks, confidence scams are very familiar to those working in the cybersecurity industry.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

Sadly, coronavirus phishing and ransomware hacks already are in high gear. Social engineering invariably is the first step in cyber attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to business email compromise ( BEC ) scams and advanced persistent threat ( APT ) hacks. It’s already happening.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

SonicWall’s email security solution is supposed to help protect customers from phishing attacks, business email compromise, ransomware and other email related threats. The post Someone is using SonicWall’s email security tool to hack customers appeared first on SC Media. SonicWall). million SonicWall user groups.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2022

These stories are juicy and scandalous and entice audiences to read the article, generating more clicks onto the media outlet’s website. When an enterprise gets breached, the natural assumption is that it was due to a software vulnerability or phishing scam. A great example that receives public resonance concerns ATMs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

The attack described by Microsoft begun with a phishing message that was opened by an internal employee, the malware infected its systems and made lateral movements infected other systems in the same network. The virus halted core services by saturating the CPU usage on Windows devices. ” reads the Microsoft DART announcement.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Being Used to Phish So Many of Us? Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs Why is.US

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2019

Wipro issued a media statement , via its Economic Times division, acknowledging “potentially abnormal activity in a few employee accounts on our network due to an advanced phishing campaign.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When the Telecoms Security Act (TSA) was introduced, it was labelled as ‘one of the strongest telecoms security regimes in the world, a rise in standards across the board, set by the government rather than the industry’ by Matt Warman, former Minister of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport.

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Cisco Security

JULY 14, 2021

Oftentimes, phishing and social engineering are used to steal credentials and/or get employees to click on a malicious link or attachment. Today’s users are accustomed to rapidly scrolling and browsing through emails, social media, and news articles. How exactly do attackers get in?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Staying safe on social networks Prioritize safe communication habits on social media platforms. Periodically, at least once a quarter, review the security settings of your social media accounts and the apps linked to them. Fully utilize firewall capabilities. Upgrade your router if it does not support WPA3.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

Indeed, Nikolay Betov, information security officer at Mondelez, told SC media that this event “changed everything.” This global initiative will expose employees to short but, impactful video-based lessons produced by security awareness firm AwareGO on topics such as phishing, data leaks, Microsoft Office security and Zoom bombing.

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