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2023 Predictions: Emerging Tech & Global Conflict Bring New Cyber Threats

CyberSecurity Insiders

By Immanuel Chavoya, Emerging Threat Expert, SonicWall 2022 saw a shifting cybersecurity landscape as rising geopolitical conflicts brought new tactics, targets, and goals for cybercrime. AI Accelerates Vulnerability Exploitation AI has proven to be a valuable tool for IT and cybersecurity, but it has also introduced new threats.

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Q&A: Crypto jackers redirect illicit mining ops to bigger targets — company servers

The Last Watchdog

It began when threat actors began stealthily embedding crypto mining functionality into the web browsers of unwitting individuals. Cryptojacking was born. One key bit of intelligence Bitdefender shares in a whitepaper is a breakdown of how EternalBlue has come into play, once again. Illicit crypto mining is advancing apace.

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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

SecureWorld News

Critical Start today released its biannual Cyber Intelligence Report, featuring the top threats observed in the first half of 2023 and emerging cybersecurity trends impacting the healthcare, financial services, and state and local government industries. The new Beep malware is top of mind for organizations and individuals.

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Threat Actors Merging Malicious Activity With Cryptocurrency Show How the Attack Landscape is Developing in Decentralized Finance

Security Boulevard

Widespread implementation of decentralized finance (DeFi) systems since 2020 has created new fertile ground for a variety of threat actors to shift the development of cyberattack tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). The number of threat actors participating in DeFi activity has grown substantially over the past two years.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cyberattacks are on the rise, with cyber criminal trends and techniques becoming increasingly sophisticated and creative. Cyberattacks are on the rise, with cyber criminal trends and techniques becoming increasingly sophisticated and creative. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4

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These are the 15 Top Cyber Threats Now

SecureWorld News

Sometimes when you are down in the cyber attack trees defending your organization, it can be tough to see the cyber threat forest. Understanding how things are shifting in the forest, or overall threat landscape, can help us categorize, strategize, and prioritize our resources. What are the top cyber threats right now?

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Number of hacktivist attacks declined by 95 percent since 2015

Security Affairs

Researchers analyzed data collected by IBM’s X-Force threat intelligence unit between 2015 and 2019. “Yet amid all the concern, there is one threat trend that our data suggests has been on the decline: hacktivism — the subversive use of internet-connected devices and networks to promote a political or social agenda.”