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Security Affairs newsletter Round 464 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

surfaces in the threat landscape Pokemon Company resets some users’ passwords Ukraine cyber police arrested crooks selling 100 million compromised accounts New AcidPour wiper targets Linux x86 devices. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Is it a Russia’s weapon?

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Author Q&A: Here’s why the good guys must continually test the limitations of ‘EDR’

The Last Watchdog

Emerging from traditional antivirus and endpoint protection platforms, EDR rose to the fore in the mid-2010s to improve upon the continuous monitoring of servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices and put security teams in a better position to mitigate advanced threats, such as APTs and zero-day vulnerabilities.

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ROUNDTABLE: Why T-Mobile’s latest huge data breach could fuel attacks directed at mobile devices

The Last Watchdog

According to the attackers, this was a configuration issue on an access point T-Mobile used for testing. This was not a sophisticated attack. T-Mobile left a gate left wide open for attackers – and attackers just had to find the gate.”. Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk.

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Generative AI Changes Everything You Know About Email Cyber Attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

Social engineering – specifically malicious cyber campaigns delivered via email – remain the primary source of an organization’s vulnerability to attack. Popularised in the 1990s, email security has challenged cyber defenders for almost three decades. billion phishing e-mails get delivered every day.

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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

SecureList

Then we will go through the key events of 2021 relating to attacks on financial organizations. Finally, we will make some forecasts about financial attacks in 2022. MageCart attacks moving to the server side. We can see that the number of threat actors that rely on client-side attacks (JavaScript) is diminishing by the day.

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

Krebs on Security

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. Then on Aug.

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Phishing-resistant MFA 101: What you need to know

CyberSecurity Insiders

The spread of the remote workforce and the growth of digital transformation has exponentiated the number of login-based attack vectors. While multi-factor authentication (MFA) generally protects against common methods of gaining unauthorized account access, not all multi-factor authentication methods can defend against sophisticated attacks.

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