Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

From calendar years 2020 to 2022, there was a 27% increase in victim reports to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of BECs with a real estate nexus. We don’t just report on threats—we remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. In 2020, it saw 193 billion credential stuffing attacks globally, with 3.4

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 In 2020, Bitcoin blackmailers stuck to their old scheme, demanding that their victims transfer money to a certain account and threatening adversity for failure to meet their demands. The share of spam in global email traffic in 2020 was down by 6.14

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Often security researchers and security teams focus on threats to software and the risks associated with authenticating and managing users. As the threat landscape evolves and exposure to risk changes, organizations need to review their threat exposure and consider if current mitigations are sufficient for their needs. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

The Agency identified 1,785 cyber incidents in 2020, including brute-force attacks, email-related attacks, impersonation attacks, improper usage of the systems, loss/theft of equipment, and web-based attacks. In 2020, most of the incidents were improper usage issues, followed by loss/theft of equipment and web-based attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2020

Cisco fixed CVE-2020-3452 high-severity path traversal flaw in its firewalls that can be exploited by remote attackers to obtain sensitive files from the targeted system. The CVE-2020-3452 flaw was independently reported to Cisco by Mikhail Klyuchnikov of Positive Technologies and Abdulrahman Nour and Ahmed Aboul-Ela from RedForce.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Last month’s passage of the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 means all IoT devices used by government agencies will soon have to comply with strict NIST standards. In May 2020, NIST released two foundational documents that serve as a foundation for the newly created guidelines.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 2, 2020

I caught up with Faiz Shuja, SIRP cofounder, at the RSA 2020 Conference in San Francisco recently. Full automation is still some way off, but the data can be enriched based on certain automation and workflows, automating some 70 percent of the risk investigation. Shuja SOAR also speeds up investigation time. .

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Hot for Security

JUNE 28, 2021

According to a newly-published report by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the elderly are more at risk from falling victim to online fraud and internet scammers than ever before. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. To measure the level of the cybersecurity risk associated with gaming, we investigated several types of threats. Pandemic-related statistics cover the period of January 2020 through June 2021.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. This is the Internet of Things, and it's a security nightmare. But like nearly all innovation, there are risks involved.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. Source: DZone’s Edge Computing and IoT, 2020 . A Safer Internet of Things.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

2020 blog post on an ongoing Qakbot campaign that was first documented three months earlier by Check Point Research. The security flaw was briefly alluded to in a 2018 writeup on U-Admin by the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The vulnerability Context Security discovered meant exposing the Wi-Fi credentials of the network the device was attached to, which is significant because it demonstrates that IoT vulnerabilities can put other devices on the network at risk as well. Are these examples actually risks in IoT?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The security breach poses a major national security risk. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.” China has long targeted global internet service providers and recent attacks are aligned with past operations linked to Beijing.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

These are not uncommon risks. The devices themselves can’t be secured, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use basic IT techniques to reduce our security risks. Industries with very expensive operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as healthcare or industrial manufacturing, can be especially vulnerable.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2020

EST on March 20, 2020, we were alerted to anomalous activity on our network which risked the integrity of our data-centers,” reads the notice. “The Finastra risk and security services team has detected anomalous activity on our systems,” wrote Tom Kilroy , Finastra’s chief operating officer. At 3:00 a.m.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 30, 2021

NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. ” Ubiquiti has not responded to repeated requests for comment.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. IoT risks have been a low-priority, subset concern.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

I spoke with Maurice Côté, VP Business Solutions, and Martin Lemay, CISO, of Devolutions , at the RSA 2020 Conference in San Francisco recently. I believe there’s pent up demand from SMBs for cost-effective services that can reduce the potentially catastrophic cyber risks they face every day. It’s really about offering value.”

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2020

We met at RSA 2020 and had a lively discussion about how today’s cloud-mobile environment enables network users to bypass traditional security controls creating gaping exposures, at this point, going largely unaddressed. What are they touching on a cloud app? Are they being risky? Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Consumers and organizations are enthused about the operational benefits of more robust mobile connectivity, but the shift to 5G networks doesn’t come without risks. Here we’ll discuss the most significant risks posed by 5G, how U.S. Table of Contents What Are the Cybersecurity Risks of 5G? How is 5G Different?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 12, 2020

I had the chance to visit with Votiro CEO and founder Aviv Grafi at RSA 2020. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW For a full drill down give a listen to the accompanying podcast. I’ll keep watch.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

For starters, it appears at one point in 2020 Witte actually hosted Trickbot malware on a vanity website registered in her name — allawitte[.]nl. “On top of the password re-use, the data shows a great insight into her professional and personal Internet usage,” Holden wrote in a blog post on Witte’s arrest.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

This self-service, self-directed, continuous infrastructure pentesting approach allows organization to discover their exploitable attack surfaces and reduced their risk. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

it earned a spot on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) list of the 15 most exploited flaws from 2020 to 2022. Whether driven by concerns over downtime or simply underestimating the risk of older vulnerabilities, this lack of urgency leaves systems exposed to attack. Rated CVSS 9.8,

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

UK, and Australia: Weak Encryption Puts Billions of Internet Users at Risk. In closely related news, nominations for the 2020 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies are open. The Open Technology Institute has an Open Letter to Law Enforcement in the U.S., press release , letter.)

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2020

Digital commerce would fly apart if businesses could not reliably affirm the identities of all humans and all machines, that is, computing instances, that are constantly connecting to each other across the Internet. We spoke at RSA 2020. Based on that, we can assess the risk level of the user and the specific access request.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Transportation Command in 2017, after learning that their computerized logistical systems were mostly unclassified and on the internet. This is just one of many risks to our normal civilian computer supply chains. .” That was Bruce’s response at a conference hosted by U.S. This is not speculative. weapons systems.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2020

In its 2020 fiscal year, ending March 31, Infosys reported revenue of $12.8 To make an impact, they must be able to address the audience in accessible business language and in risk language. I had the chance to discuss this state of affairs with Vishal Salvi, CISO of Infosys. billion, with $7.8 billion coming from North America, $3.1

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Nevertheless, cybersecurity incident response firm Mandiant today released a list of domains and Internet addresses used by Ryuk in previous attacks throughout 2020 and up to the present day.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2023

Furthermore, BeVigil can also prove as a resourceful tool to identify security risks and existing bugs on an application. NOTE- CloudSEK leverages artificial intelligence to detect security related alerts across internet sources, and helps analyze threats precisely and that too with zero or minimal intervention.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

2020, the U.K.’s In two of the intrusions (against the Russian hacking forums “Mazafaka” and “Verified”) — the attackers made off with the forums’ user databases, including email and Internet addresses and hashed passwords. Shortly after WeLeakInfo’s domain was seized by authorities in Jan.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The Difference Between Threats and Risks. The problem we have as humans is that opportunity is usually coupled with risk, so the question is one of which opportunities should you take and which should you pass on. And If you want to take a certain risk, which controls should you put in place to keep the risk at an acceptable level?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

In April 2020, Truniger was banned from two of the top Russian cybercrime forums, where members from both forums confirmed that Semen7907 was one of Truniger’s known aliases. That same email address was assigned to the user “Semen-7907” on the now defunct gaming website tunngle.net , which suffered a data breach in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

” But the DOJ says these disclaimers usually ignore the fact that most booter services are heavily reliant on constantly scanning the Internet to commandeer misconfigured devices that are critical for maximizing the size and impact of DDoS attacks. ” According to U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2024

We had a wide-ranging discussion about the limitations of traditional third-party risk management ( TPRM ), which uses extensive questionnaires—and the honor system – to judge the security posture of third-party suppliers. For a full drill down, please give the accompanying podcast a listen. The shoring up of supply chain security continues.

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