SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

User Awareness Training: Educating employees about cybersecurity best practices and raising awareness about common threats like phishing emails and social engineering attacks can significantly reduce the risk of successful breaches.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 26, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in 2020 and upended the way businesses operated, another threat was also emerging: The ShinyHunters group has been both bothersome and threatening to security teams as the cybercriminal group tries to amass legitimate credentials, primarily for organizations’ cloud services.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home. (Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons).

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

In a blog post on Monday, researchers from Trend Micro reported that they uncovered 70 email addresses that have been targeted with the so-called “Office 365 V4 phishing kit” since May 2020, 40 of which belong to “CEOs, directors, owners and founders, among other enterprise employee[s].”.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As we mentioned in a previous blog , hackers come in many forms, but their methods can generally be classified into three distinct types of cybercriminals: The Impersonator – Hackers that pretend to be others, often using social engineering and human psychology to trick users. Let’s look at a few primary examples.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Enterprises and their staff dealt with a lot of change in 2020. This vastly increased mobility, cloud computing and social networking usage; in some cases, this transition occurred before companies and staff were fully prepared. The pandemic and resulting lockdowns forced organizations to allow staff to work from home.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2022

Phishing attacks have steadily been on the rise, and according to Proofpoint's 2021 State of the Phish Report , over half of all participants reported receiving a successful phishing attack in 2020. Use the Proofpoint Phishing Awareness Kit to raise phishing awareness and educate your users.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

In fact, nearly one-third (28%) of data breaches in 2020 involved small businesses, according to the Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) – 70% of which were perpetrated by external actors. FACT: Phishing and social engineering are the number one attack vector for SMBs. Don’t believe everything you hear.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipate emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. In addition, the report highlights the threats, trends, and key takeaways of threats observed and reported into 0xSI_f33d. in Q3 2021.

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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

According to Sensity , the number of deepfake videos online has nearly doubled every six months since 2018, and more than 85,000 deepfake videos have been detected as of December 2020. Considering that there’s been a significant rise in global searches for “deepfake” since the beginning of 2021, this number has likely grown even higher now.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If these things are true, how do we share information with others in a way that is proven to work and create a culture of security? Security awareness and how you talk about cybersecurity. I can go into my [saved] folders, and find our folder on social engineering. billion of losses were reported.". Ransomware.

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 8, 2021

According to the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIIS) 2020/21 State of the Profession report, job stress keeps 51% of cybersecurity professionals up at night. Of the hundreds of security professionals surveyed, the majority mentioned that stress and burnout have become a major issue during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

This could include malware that antivirus and security solutions can’t detect; a secure internet connection to prevent tracing; initial access to victim companies’ networks or mailboxes (which is also key to many ransomware infections); effective social engineering content; fraudulent content hosting, and more.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

We often hear about security awareness training’s role in maintaining proper cyber hygiene, but what about privacy awareness programs? In some cases, privacy training can be packaged alongside security awareness training, as they often do go hand in hand.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its #StopRansomware guide to account for the fact that ransomware actors have accelerated their tactics and techniques since the original guide was released in September of 2020. Drive-by-downloads. Malvertising.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

Researchers have spotted a new business email compromise (BEC) trend that, if perfected, could represent a significant social engineering threat to the financial investment and private equity community. The report partially attributes this sudden spike to the newly identified scheme.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Broaden the view out to 2015-2020, and that figure rises to 700%. They can do that by leveraging security awareness training to augment their familiarity with phishing attacks and other social engineering techniques. Hence why machine identity attacks are so prevalent.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 23, 2022

To get to their targets, the attackers used social engineering via LinkedIn “hiding behind the ruse of attractive, but bogus, job offers,” ESET said, adding that it was likely part of the Lazarus campaign for Mac and is similar to research done by ESET in May. As a result, Macs with macOS Catalina v10.15 Long History.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

That could be through common hacking techniques like phishing, bait and switch, cookie theft, deep fake , password cracking , social engineering , and so on. Finally, in the spirit of full disclosure, please be aware that I’ve received compensation for promoting this #ad for Nowcomm.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2 – It demonstrates the importance of security awareness training for your employees! 2020 – Sina Weibo – 538 million users’ information is stolen from Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, and circulated on the dark web. I love it for a few reasons. #1 It is thought to be the first computer virus. .

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2021

In the shift to remote work, these risks can be even more damaging, as they have the potential to take down entire networks, increase downtime, and result in massive security costs. With an estimated 900% increase in ransomware attacks during the first half of 2020 alone, hackers are stepping up their game to infiltrate vulnerable systems.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The US Department of Homeland Security initially released it in 2007 to improve software assurance through security awareness at the development stage. Source: fnCyber, “CAPEC – Common Attack Patterns Enumeration and Classification” For example, let us look at CVE-2020-16875 found in 2020.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2020

Since the attack occurred in early July, speculation about how hackers compromised Twitter's security have run rampant, especially on.Twitter. Even the title of SecureWorld's first story about the incident had questions: "Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack?". How was Twitter hacked?

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

This was exactly the technique used for the Twitter hack in the summer of 2020. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 31, 2020. Help your employees become more knowledgeable and aware of cybersecurity issues. To do so, you could use an online training platform such as Kaspersky Automated Security Awareness Platform.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Particularly during the peak of COVID-19, research by IBM found that ransomware incidents ‘exploded’ in June 2020, which saw twice as many ransomware attacks as the month prior, taking advantage of remote workers being away from the help of IT teams.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Today’s columnist, Brian Johnson of Armorblox, offers five takeaways from the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in March released its 2020 Internet Crime Report with updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and COVID-19 scams. Credit: FBI.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. 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). Ransomware. The data is neither stolen nor manipulated.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. Ransomware 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). Ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In 2023, businesses and consumers alike should expect to see an increase in social engineering attacks where bad actors manipulate victims into sharing sensitive information such as login credentials or payment details. Financial organizations will see a rise in BIN attacks. million in losses, later recouped.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

We repeatedly say that companies need to invest significantly in advanced protection tools and security awareness, including a Zero Trust approach. In March 2020, nation-state hackers believed to be from Russia compromised a DLL file linked to a software update for the Orion platform by SolarWinds. Social engineering.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As most of us know, 2020 was a year of polar opposites in the business world. Chainalysis, which tracks this kind of spending, shared new research breaking down darknet markets and their geographic distinctions in 2020. Security Standoff: IT Department vs. City Councilman. Click here to continue reading.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In all, the agency grouped the main risks into eight categories: ransomware, malware, social engineering, threats against data, threats against availability, disinformation/misinformation, and supply chain targeting. The latter category made up 17 per cent of all reported intrusions in 2021, up from just 1 per cent in 2020.

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