Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we explore the rise of AI social engineering scams, understand their techniques, examine real-life examples, discuss their impact and consequences, and provide practical tips on how to protect yourself against them. Common techniques used in social engineering scams include: Impersonation.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2019

But, some companies are still unwilling to devote the necessary resources to securing their infrastructures against cyberattacks , and naive individuals think they’re immune to the tactics of cybercriminals, too. The Methods of Attack Are Diversifying. Paying attention to cybersecurity is more important than ever in 2019.

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NopSec

AUGUST 2, 2022

Have you ever wondered what security professionals want most from their Vulnerability Management (VM) program? To better understand organizational vulnerability management, we surveyed 426 security professionals to illuminate and quantify their day-to-day challenges, frustrations, and priorities. The top challenge is shadow IT.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

Kali Linux turns 10 this year, and to celebrate, the Linux penetration testing distribution has added defensive security tools to its arsenal of open-source security tools. For now, Kali is primarily known for its roughly 600 open source pentesting tools, allowing pentesters to easily install a full range of offensive security tools.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 10, 2023

The latest attacks, which took place in February 2023, were almost identical to previous attacks reported by Group-IB on January 11, 2023 ( 1 ). Malware delivery and execution techniques like DLL side loading with Winword.exe are identical to previous cyber-attacks done by Dark Pink group ( 1 ).

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Given that nearly a quarter of players were underage as of 2022, they may be easy prey for the attackers. Our investigation encompassed attacks that involved threats disguised as game apps, mods and cheats, and features analysis of some of the most active malware families operating in this domain. percent more than last year.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cain and Alexander DeMine Overview Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) is a security technology which has been gaining popularity for large businesses securing their enterprise networks in recent years. Authored By: Lance B. What is RBI and Why Use It? The general concept of RBI is relatively simple.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In their campaigns to infect mobile devices, cybercriminals always resort to social engineering tools, the most common of these passing a malicious application off as another, popular and desirable one. These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This concept is important in maintaining your organization’s operational efficiency and making sure that client and proprietary data are secure. How do defenders truly reclaim control over their domain? How do they recover operational efficiency without compromising trust or security through the recovery process?

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

They are eye-opening: The United States sees the costliest cybersecurity events – the average total cost of $8.19 They are eye-opening: The United States sees the costliest cybersecurity events – the average total cost of $8.19 Let’s examine these and other questions to help secure your business.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Web application firewalls (WAFs) are a critical component for robust application security. The best ones find the right balance between performance, security effectiveness, and cost. The primary task for WAFs is to protect specific applications from web-based attacks at the application layer. Amazon Web Services.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2023

The first security measure businesses adopted during the pandemic was using VPNs that allowed employees to work remotely while still enjoying connectivity and security. To combat these vulnerabilities, organizations must consider establishing hybrid workplace network security.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. Network Elements Networks connect physical and virtual assets and control the data flow between them.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Jump ahead to: How Does Incident Response Work? Bottom Line: Preparing for Incident Response How Does Incident Response Work?

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Google Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

Posted by Roger Piqueras Jover, Yomna Nasser, and Sudhi Herle Android is the first mobile operating system to introduce advanced cellular security mitigations for both consumers and enterprises. Attackers exploit this in a number of ways, ranging from traffic interception and malware sideloading, to sophisticated dragnet surveillance.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

A report last week by the New York Attorney General’s Office put a spotlight on the ongoing threat of credential stuffing, a common technique used by cybercriminals that continues to spread and is helping to fuel the push for security practices that don’t involve usernames and passwords. Password Reuse.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

ThreatLabz has discovered a new strain of a large-scale phishing campaign, which uses adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques along with several evasion tactics. Similar AiTM phishing techniques were used in another phishing campaign described by Microsoft recently here. Key points.

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Google Security

JULY 27, 2023

Maddie Stone, Security Researcher, Threat Analysis Group (TAG) This is Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild [ 2021 , 2020 , 2019 ] and builds off of the mid-year 2022 review. Although a 40% drop might seem like a clear-cut win for improving security, the reality is more complicated.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

Phishing has been a prominent cyber threat for decades, stealing the spotlight as the most prevalent attack vector for years, but the latest breed of attacks is more sophisticated and complicated to protect against than ever before.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Targeted attacks. Nevertheless, in our APT predictions for 2022 , we noted that more attackers would reach the sophistication level required to develop such tools. Nevertheless, in our APT predictions for 2022 , we noted that more attackers would reach the sophistication level required to develop such tools. Mobile statistics.

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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

All statistics in this report are from the global cloud service Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), which receives information from components in our security solutions. 70% of Internet user computers in the EU experienced at least one Malware-class attack. In the EU, Kaspersky solutions blocked 115,452,157 web attacks.

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McAfee

APRIL 20, 2020

Introduction – Choosing the Right Security Controls Framework. Organizations are increasingly finding themselves caught in the “ security war of more ” where Governance, Risk and Compliance regimes, compounded by vendor solution fragmentation, have resulted in tick-box security.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Targeted attacks. In December, SolarWinds, a well-known IT managed services provider, fell victim to a sophisticated supply-chain attack. Out of the 18,000 Orion IT customers affected by the malware, it seems that only a handful were of interest to the attackers. Putting the ‘A’ into APT.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Sure, you can still buy them (and there are companies out there that would just love to sell them to you!), The usefulness of EV is going, going. pic.twitter.com/5DpTbsfNNO — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) May 15, 2018. pic.twitter.com/IYf2Km4LkD — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 14, 2017.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Living off the Land (LoL) is an attack where files already on your machine, ie your operating system, are used against you. Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. They would be undetectable, right?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ScarCruft group (also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper) is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. The actor also attempted to send spear-phishing emails to the victims’ associates working in businesses related to North Korea by using stolen login credentials. Spear-phishing document.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

billion malware attacks worldwide in just the first half of 2022. billion malware attacks worldwide in just the first half of 2022. A 2020 study of pentesting projects from Positive Technologies revealed that external attackers could breach 93% of company networks , with 71% being vulnerable even to novice-level hackers.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The rise of destructive attacks In December of last year, shortly after we released our predictions for 2023, Russian government agencies were reported to have been targeted by a data wiper called CryWiper. In January, ESET discovered a new wiper, deployed in an attack in Ukraine via the Active Directory GPO.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

Delilah Schwartz, from Cybersixgill, brings her extensive background with online extremists to The Hacker Mind to talk about how she’s seeing a lot of chatter in the Dark Web about generative AI being used online for scams. We’ve seen drug marketplaces and extremists use the Dark Web. VAMOSI: We hear a lot about the Dark Web.

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