Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Maybe you’ve been holding off freezing your credit file because your home state currently charges a fee for placing or thawing a credit freeze, or because you believe it’s just not worth the hassle. But thanks to a federal law enacted earlier this year, after Sept.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

After a year that saw massive ransomware attacks and open cyber warfare, the biggest question in cybersecurity for 2023 will likely be how much of those attack techniques get commoditized and weaponized. The ongoing war in the Ukraine has led to more nation-state sponsored attacks that tend to have societal and economic impacts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution but in some cases. Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution because you don’t have to pick up the check from your workplace and take it to the bank to deposit it. hackers can access them.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Last year, we foresaw the APT and cybercrime worlds becoming more porous on an operational level. This prediction appears to have come true only a few days ago. Over the past 12 months, the style and severity of APT threats has continued to evolve. APT threat actors will buy initial network access from cybercriminals.

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Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

When it comes to managed security service providers (MSSPs), it’s obvious our global visionary is Robert Herjavec. Then within a few years or longer, what they told you happens, it comes to be, almost prophetically. . Now, it’s obvious. To a visionary, it was obvious more than 25 years before it became a reality. The research is under way.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device. ” message to channel participants.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cybercrime will go to the next level: Cyberattackers will implement improved skills, “shift left” attacks, and shifting strategies to adjust to evolving cyberdefense. Government actions will increase: Expect more government regulations, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and increased documentation required to protect CISOs.

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Cytelligence

JANUARY 27, 2020

Speed of ransomware deployment and; Effectiveness of security controls within an organization. Ransomware is becoming an epidemic in the cybersecurity world, with new strains being created continuously by criminals to extort money out of unsuspecting users. Cybercriminals are becoming more and more sophisticated. What is Ransomware?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The patch comes 12 days after KrebsOnSecurity alerted the company that precise instructions for exploiting the vulnerability were being sold for $20,000 in the cybercrime underground. 12 from Alex Holden , founder of Milwaukee-based security firm Hold Security. KrebsOnSecurity first learned about the flaw on Feb. PARTIAL PATCH.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

William Bangham: Judy, the FBI said a group known as Dark Side is responsible for this cyber attack, which used what is known as ransomware ransomware is malicious computer code that blocks and owners access to their computer network until a ransom gets paid. Vamosi: In the summer of 2021, the Colonial Pipeline in the US.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

Colonial, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, is the largest refined energy provider in the United States. With prominent spurs in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, Colonial supplies 70% of these southeastern states’ liquid fuel. will likely face days of uncertainty over its energy supply.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2021

As President Biden addresses the nation in his first State of the Union tonight, expect to hear a minute devoted to cybersecurity. The working group will initially consist of criminal, national security, and civil divisions of the DOJ and FBI before incorporating leadership from the private sector and international partners.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

mail more than a gram of pure heroin as part of a scheme to get me arrested for drug possession. But the plan failed and the Ukrainian mastermind behind it soon after was imprisoned for unrelated cybercrime offenses. In April 2013, I received via U.S. Below are a few translated excerpts.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Here at Cisco, we like to celebrate people in cybersecurity industry who are leading the fight against bad actors as well as those creating a secure culture for organizations and the people within them. I thank you all for keeping our patients safe and secure! This month, we interviewed Esmond Kane, CISO of Steward Health Care.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

That’s a tiny share of the estimated tens of billions of dollars in jobless benefits states have given to identity thieves in the past year. To help reverse that trend, many states are now turning to a little-known private company called ID.me. In response, 15 states have now allied with McLean, Va.-based are using it.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

” But the security community and other technology leaders have started raising the alarm, worried about the program’s potential to write malware and spread mis- and disinformation. Do you think your organization should embrace ChatGPT? As of November 2022, people can no longer ignore the artificial elephant in the room.

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