SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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. Cyber Espionage. Ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For instance, during the lockdown period of 2020, there was a huge surge in fake news and illegal activity related to the financial and other markets. Cyber attackers have used misleading information on social media for procuring campaign finances as well as personal and financial information of people and corporations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Barracuda Email Threat Scanner was used to scan the computer networks of 4550 organizations and out 2,600,531 mailboxes, over 2,029,413 were found to be targeted by unique cyber attacks. Spear phishing threats are more severe, as it involves a lot of sophistication by hackers and often go undetected by email gateways.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 12, 2022

Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) task force has conducted “its first offensive cyber effect operation against real-life cyber threats.” It was clear from many of the poll’s responses that many in the private sector feel their organizations have become sitting ducks for cyber attackers. The post U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 26, 2021

Speaking at a virtual conference held at Queen’s University, Belfast and citing the example of the recent SolarWinds hack and Microsoft Exchange Server cyber attack, Ms Cameron asked for a change in the thinking of boardroom and asked them to invest smartly on threat monitoring solutions proactively.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2020

The NFCA alert noted that the dates of the files in the leak actually span nearly 24 years — from August 1996 through June 19, 2020 — and that the documents include names, email addresses, phone numbers, PDF documents, images, and a large number of text, video, CSV and ZIP files.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

Elexon, a middleman in the UK power grid network, recently reported it was hit by a cyber attack. Elexon , a middleman in the UK power grid network, was the victim of a cyber attack, the incident impacted only affected the internal IT network, including the company’s email server, and employee laptops.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2021

These regulations are continuously evolving as threats become more sophisticated and targeted. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2023, 65% of the world will have its personal information covered by some sort of privacy regulation, up from 10% of the world in 2020. The post Does That Data Make Your Company a Cyber Attack Target?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Second, The Australian Cyber Security Centre( ACSC) has issued a public statement that companies operating in healthcare, food distribution and energy sector are super-vulnerable to sophisticated cyber attacks that could end up in information steal.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Practicing risk management for assets is important to estimate and understand possible outcomes in the event of a cyber attack. . In July 2021, REvil ransomware group (also known as Sodinokibi) launched an attack campaign against Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and thousands of their customers. Available: [link]. [8]

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McAfee

DECEMBER 4, 2020

2020 has been a tumultuous and unpredictable year, where we restructured our lives and redefined how we work and interact with each other. Although 2020 has undoubtedly been a year of trials and tribulations, I wanted to share some of McAfee’s top highlights. Ahead of the 2020 U.S. To support today’s U.S. To support today’s U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Russia’s state-sponsored hackers can “turn the lights off for millions of people” with a cyber attack. “Given the scale of that hostility, my message to members today is clear: no-one should underestimate the Russian cyber threat to NATO.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. There was another warning from the U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 24, 2021

Ransomware attacks are taking center stage as Cyber-threats. There is ample evidence that ransomware has become a preferred method of cyber-attack choice by hackers in 2021. Although there are a variety of trends emerging in the first six months, below are four that stand out as barometers of what lies ahead.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 8, 2021

2020 will be remembered most as the year the world was swept up in the COVID pandemic. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find another alarming news story: 2020 was a record breaking year on the Cybersecurity front. There was more data lost in breaches and a higher number of cyber attacks than ever before.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

This CSA provides an overview of Russian state-sponsored cyber operations; commonly observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs); detection actions; incident response guidance; and mitigations.” “This overview is intended to help the cybersecurity community reduce the risk presented by these threats.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 19, 2021

Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2021 states that most of the German firms are vulnerable to cyber attacks and are topping the list of the study group with a loss tally of $48 million. Researchers who conducted the survey concluded after gauging six key cyber security areas related to people, technology and processes.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When we thought about 2020, it felt like hackers and ransomware should have been at the top (these fall under system intrusion). Our Analysis Perceptions of Data Breach Causes We were interested in comparing what DBIR, Google, news outlets, and academia reported as the causes of data breaches in 2020. Let's use that as our baseline.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As 2020 draws to a close, we're highlighting our Top 10 ACT Posts of 2020 to recap the year in cybersecurity! The Top Cybersecurity Blogs We're Reading in 2020. Healthcare Company UHS a Victim of Major Cyber Attack. And was it a DDoS Attack? Stay tuned here to find out what they were. #10. Massive U.S.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Hospital administrators are quick to point out that, to date, there have been no known cases in which a ransomware attack on a healthcare facility has been proven to lead to a patient's death. However, there are two well-documented cases that come very close," said Kip Boyle, vCISO, Cyber Risk Opportunities LLC.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 18, 2020

CISA is now offering some specifics and warning that if your network is already infected with the SUNBURST malware, the kill switch may not stop an attack. Based on coordinated actions by multiple private sector partners, as of December 15, 2020, avsvmcloud[.]com Nation-state cyber attack methodology and motive.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

26 key cyber security stats for 2024 that every user should know, from rising cyber crime rates to the impact of AI technolog y. Cyber Crime Surge: During COVID-19 , cyber crimes shot up by 600%, showing how threats adapt to global changes. Shockingly, 96% of these attacks come through email.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

HIPAA privacy violations per day in 2020. The cost of cyber attacks globally in 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, is expected to cost $20 billion. The post How Critical Access Management Protects Government Entities from Cyber Threats appeared first on SecureLink.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This is one of the most widespread cyber threats, making up at least 27% of all malware incidents as per Verizon’s annual DBIR report (2020). Today, bad actors often launch cyber attacks that are a combination of several malware types. Ransomware. The data is neither stolen nor manipulated.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 13, 2021

When figures are taken into consideration, the report says that the total loss incurred through cyber crime was recorded as $3.5 AUD in 2020. AUD in the past 4 years on an annual note and $597 AUD to mitigate the consequences of cyber attacks. “As AUD or $2 billion in USD.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

The threat landscape for businesses today is filled with many different security threats and attack vectors used by hackers and other malicious individuals. On the world scene, 2020 has already been a challenging year for businesses across the board with COVID-19. What Is a Cyber Attack?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The European Central Bank is warning banks of possible Russia-linked cyber attack amid the rising crisis with Ukraine. The European Central Bank is warning banks of possible Russia-linked cyber attack amid the rising crisis with Ukraine and is inviting them to step up defenses. ” reported Reuters. .

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Ransomware is undoubtedly one of the most unnerving phenomena in the cyber threat landscape. It additionally spans mild-impact screen lockers, data wipers disguised as something else, infections that overwrite the master boot record (MBR), and most recently, nasties that enhance the attack logic with data theft. inch diskettes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 25, 2022

International Business Machines, shortly known as IBM, has developed a Cyber Resilience Center (CRC) for the Port of Los Angeles that will help in thwarting cyber threats that could negatively affect the free flow of cargo.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But while lowering cyber threat dwell times always help, until you lower them to under a few hours or days, many cyber-attacks will still succeed. Often, successful cyber-attacks happen in minutes or hours. The problem is that most cyber-attacks complete in well under 21 days, some only taking minutes.

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SecureBlitz

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In 2020, cyberattacks witnessed an unprecedented increase, targeting many industries, from phishing scams to system hacks exploiting vulnerable endpoints and weak network security. This surge in cyber threats has far-reaching […] The post 2024 Cybersecurity: The Rise of CyberAttacks appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Cybersecurity professionals are not standing still for these threats and try to address them properly. In some sense, 2020 was special—the coronavirus pandemic and the global shift to remote working became significant factors affecting the cybersecurity landscape. How exactly? Let’s find out.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 8, 2021

It’s important to remember, however, as we slowly transition back into some semblance of normality, that there will be new challenges to face in all facets of life, and the Cyber Security sector is no exception. Human error is still the number one cause of cyber attack and home working could make this even more prominent.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As we move towards the end of 2022, now is the time to take a look back at the major trends from the last eleven months and identify what might happen from a cyber threat perspective in 2023. Attributing cyber-attacks to the responsible threat actors is an incredibly difficult task.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Now, news is out that the attacks related to file encrypting malware have doubled in 2020 on Universities, especially involved in the development of Corona Virus Vaccine. This is making hackers purchase such stuff and launch cyber attacks. And on an average, the cost of payments made to hackers reached $450,000.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Retailers are becoming more vulnerable to cyber threats, especially as the industry continues to digitize and more e-commerce businesses emerge. More technology being used to increase operational efficiency means retailers face a higher risk of cyber incidents. About 24% of all 2020 breaches were aimed at retailers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

It is worth mentioning the company had also experienced a similar incident back in April 2020 which resulted in 203,859 customer emails being leaked. May 2018 – Ticketfly , the indie-focused ticketing service that was purchased by Eventbrite, had also suffered a cyber attack.

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