The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The good news is that companies today have ready access to a wide variety of tools that can simulate common types of attacks and boost employee awareness. This tool, from Cofense, proactively engages employees via simulated attacks based on real-time threats for various phishing tactics. Here’s a guide to five such services.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2024

This potential alliance could mark a new era in ransomware operations, where rivals look to pool resources and expertise in response to increasing law enforcement pressure. WereWolves leak site Preventing Ransomware Fighting off ransomware gangs requires a layered security strategy.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2024

But all of this begs the question: with fewer payments, will ransomware gangs adapt their strategies to remain a threat, or will the decrease in successful ransoms lead to a decline in attacks as they seek more lucrative avenues? The key point, though, is to assume that motivated gangs will eventually breach defenses.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2022

This should be a focus area for organizations to improve their defensive tactics, such as ensuring secure credentials and removing unnecessary privileged accounts. Although the attack against Colonial Pipeline deservedly gained news attention, ransomware attacks have increasingly disrupted the sectors of food, healthcare and transportation.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Confidential & Semi-Private Files Legally protected files should be stored on compliant cloud platforms; industry-specific security procedures required for confidential files. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 60% of organizations will require integrated ransomware defense strategies on storage devices, up from 10% in 2022.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Every year, Kaspersky experts prepare forecasts for different industries, helping them to build a strong defense against any cybersecurity threats they might face in the foreseeable future. Stefan Soesanto, Senior Cyber Defense Researcher, The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zürich.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

One of the biggest challenges facing the cybersecurity industry is a skills and labor shortage. The most dangerous aspect, in my opinion, is that most security organizations have spent the last five-plus years developing symmetric defensive strategies based on such threat actors with reasonably well-defined goals.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Backups are a critical component of any enterprise cybersecurity posture, but they are not an airtight strategy. From the rooftops, industry analysts shout, “Move your backups offline and away from production environments!” Implementing the Optimal Backup Strategy. The Argument for Backups.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

From Solar Winds to Colonial Pipeline, we’ve seen that the consequences of a ransomware attack don’t just affect the victimized organization – they can have trickle-down effects that impact whole communities, industries and even nations. I truly believe that your people are your first line of defense.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a set of security requirements that must be followed by businesses handling payment card data, particularly those employing public cloud environments, in order to secure sensitive cardholder information. Many firms are subject to industry-specific rules (e.g.,

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After receiving input from industry experts and doing my own analysis of the year’s driving forces, I identified five major cybersecurity trends. Cybercrime will go to the next level: Cyberattackers will implement improved skills, “shift left” attacks, and shifting strategies to adjust to evolving cyberdefense.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

However, while companies struggle to stay ahead of emerging threats, there are several tools and approaches they can adopt to bolster their cybersecurity strategies. Old Tools Are Failing Miserably In their mission to strengthen their digital defenses, defenders employ a range of tools and approaches, each with their strengths and weaknesses.

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Cisco Security

JULY 14, 2021

It’s popping up everywhere from the nightly news to the G7 Summit. 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.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Data from the Brazilian Federation of Banks registered a considerable increase in crime (such as explosions at bank branches to steal money) and cybercrime (increased phishing and social-engineering attacks) against banking customers and banking infrastructure. 2021 saw the appearance of two new botnets.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

To begin, you can use a sample checklist to review your SaaS tools or explore new alternatives, then adjust it to your organization’s needs. Questions to Answer Consider these questions to verify your organization’s data security and threat detection strategies: Are multi-factor authentication techniques required for user access?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

We’ve identified the top cloud storage security issues and risks, along with their effective mitigation strategies. Compliance & Legal Issues Regulations and compliance requirements for data storage and processing vary by industry and area. Fortunately, there are mitigation strategies available to address each risk.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The good news? Here are 10 of the most powerful trends I’ve seen this year — both in the realm of threats and the sphere of security strategies. In that way, the rise of LLMs is not just a threatening new channel hackers use. Ready to step up your defensive game? It’s also a privacy issue.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Compliance Requirements Stringent regulations governing data handling and privacy exist in various industries and jurisdictions. Cyber Threat Mitigations There are many cyber threats that can compromise millions of data, ranging from hacking and phishing to malware attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prevention: Implement robust encryption , access restrictions, data categorization, secure connections, and an incident response strategy. Your first line of defense against threats is a well-informed staff. Have a Recovery Plan: Create an incident response strategy for breach detection, containment, mitigation, and recovery.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 13, 2021

And prospective cybersecurity employees want to understand how to get into a dynamic, lucrative, mission-led industry, so they can develop a future-proofed career. By presenting a good case for pursuing a career in cybersecurity, the good news is, interest is up. With this approach, they reach thousands of students every year.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 21, 2023

It takes defenses that are as sophisticated, persistent, and adaptable as the would-be attacks and attackers themselves, without requiring or excessively relying upon specialized security talent. More specifically, SSE includes: Secure Web Gateway (SWG), which defends users against phishing attacks and malicious websites.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Incident response strategies guarantee that breaches are managed and recovered from effectively. Compliance and Audit Tools: Compliance and audit tools like GRC assist companies in adhering to applicable rules and industry standards by ensuring that security policies are followed and compliance is audited and documented.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

CISOs worry about the latest incident, end of life technology in their environment, breaches in the news, insecure users and vendors, penetration testing results, budget and resources, and the latest vulnerability report (to name a few). Did end-user training really teach the fundamentals to avoid a phishing attack? You get the point.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 21, 2021

From news of a collage selling for almost $70 million at Christie’s auction house to a portrayal of Janet Yellen and Morpheus rapping about cryptocurrency on SNL , the current craze is all about non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Phishing Campaigns. No surprise here–phishing campaigns have moved to target the NFT marketplace.

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Herjavec Group

JULY 29, 2021

It seems every time we turn on the news there’s been another breach, each bigger than the last. But in spite of it all, the cybersecurity industry and the professionals within it continue to step up and tirelessly work to protect organizations against cyber threats. Your People are Your First Line of Defense. In the U.S.,

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

To combat these constantly changing threats and growing attack surface, FWaaS adjusts its defenses to new attack vectors and threats by utilizing real-time data analysis and machine learning, offering broad, flexible protection for critical digital assets. And by eliminating the need for local security solutions, it can save money too.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Email security consists of the policies, tools, and services deployed to protect against threats specific to email such as spam, phishing attacks, malware-infested attachments, impersonation, and email interception. Threat Feed Attackers constantly develop new attacks and methods and new vulnerabilities are discovered regularly.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Continuous Uptime: Redundancy and failover strategies are commonly utilized in multi-tenant systems to improve business continuity and reliability. Employee training in recognizing and resisting phishing and other social engineering efforts is also important. It is critical to keep software and systems up to date with security fixes.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These policies may be in accordance with industry-specific compliance standards such as HIPAA or PCI DSS, and they may include procedures to enforce data retention, auditing, and reporting obligations. The strategy also includes communication channels to keep each stakeholder informed.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

In this report, we take a step back from the day-to-day ransomware news cycle and follow the ripples back into the heart of the ecosystem to understand how it is organized. The gang’s name REvil often appears in news headlines in the infosecurity community. The first one is the REvil (aka Sodinokibi) gang.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 20,551 gambling industry attacks. Infrastructure Protection Defense against DDoS and DNS attacks starts with effective network security architecture.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 7, 2021

The US Congress recently voted to override President Trump's veto of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 81-13. This is big news as CISA has been without a director since November, when the Trump administration fired Christopher Krebs. 27 cybersecurity provisions included in the Defense Bill.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We have seen firsthand that it takes more than an individual task force to combat ransomware and other related threats such as phishing, insider threats and more. Have hope that through the hard work and brilliant minds behind these security defenses that 2022 will not be a repeat of such high level attacks.

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SecureList

APRIL 23, 2021

In the 2010s, with campaigns like WannaCry and NotPetya , ransomware became mainstream news. For anyone following the news in the infosecurity community, this seemed unlikely. By far, the industry that contained the greatest share of targeted ransomware attacks was engineering and manufacturing, at 25.63%. What was happening?

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

But for the small team of programmers responsible for maintaining the program, it was still their best line of defense against the unrelenting tide of new and unknown viruses that threatened to breach their systems. ” Such articulate, detailed responses caused a near frenzy upon ChatGPT’s initial release.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

To accomplish this Sisyphean assignment the Census Bureau is sending emails —email that will join the steady stream of phishing scams and spam already at our inboxes and discarded several times a day. The tactic seems of a piece with President Trump’s “suburban strategy.” More recently, North Korea targeted Israel’s defense industry.

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