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Financially motivated Earth Lusca threat actors targets organizations worldwide

Security Affairs

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain. Social Tactics.

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Top 8 Cybersecurity Podcasts of 2021

eSecurity Planet

Since 2007 (before podcasting in general had really taken off), Patrick Gray and his co-host Adam Boileau have covered a wide range of InfoSec topics with insight from fellow industry leaders. New episodes of The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show air weekly on Fridays and are usually about 60 minutes long. Risky Business.

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QBot banker delivered through business correspondence

SecureList

A short look at QBot The banking Trojan QBot was detected for the first time in 2007. Now the banker is delivered to potential victims through malware already residing on their computers, social engineering, and spam mailings. In 2021, we published a detailed QBot technical analysis.

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The Life and Death of Passwords: Improving Security With Passwords and People

Duo's Security Blog

Street, a self-described “hacker-helper-human,” contemplates bad password advice, investing in human behavior, and why social engineering continues to work. If you’re making technology the bulwark of your protection from the user, then it’s always going to fail. They just have to be inattentive or just accepting. It’s emotion.

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Top Network Detection & Response (NDR) Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Today, both outsiders with the right social engineering skills and disgruntled personnel pose risks to sensitive data when network architectures fail to implement microsegmentation and advanced network traffic analysis (NTA). Technology partners with Cylance, Elastic, Garland, OISF, Proofpoint, and Splunk. ExtraHop Networks.

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Great American Insurance Group Launches Innovative Cyber Risk Management Platform for Policyholders

CyberSecurity Insiders

by Great American, a powerful cyber risk management platform that combines the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) driven, inside-out review of an organization’s cyber security posture with insights from continuous, external vulnerability scans and best-in-class cyber security ratings from SecurityScorecard. Shepherd said.