SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Defending against DDoS attacks has long depended on traditional measures like firewalls and rate limiting. To stay ahead, organizations must turn to artificial intelligence. However, modern botnets have become much better at mimicking legitimate traffic, which directly negates the benefits of these measures.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

A cyberattack on gambling giant IGT disrupted portions of its IT systems China-linked APT Gelsemium uses a new Linux backdoor dubbed WolfsBane Microsoft seized 240 sites used by the ONNX phishing service U.S.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 1, 2025

In what scientists are calling SwarmGPT, artificial intelligence models are now being trained on bee behavior to enhance distributed decision-making and cyber defense response times. This is all wild, but are bees also being used for AI? Glad you asked. As a bonus, the server now produces honey during low-traffic hours.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

Many users reuse the same password and username/email, so if those credentials are stolen from one site—say, in a data breach or phishing attack—attackers can use the same credentials to compromise accounts on other services. Using a forum or social media account to send phishing messages or spam. What can users do?

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 21, 2024

YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO READ ABOUT: WhatsApps New Year 2025 Update: Grab These 3 Festive Features Before Theyre Gone The Role of Generative AI in Cybersecurity Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems capable of creating content, such as images, text, and code, by learning patterns from data. Develop sophisticated malware.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Spear phishing is a more targeted and effective phishing technique that attempts to exploit specific individuals or groups within an organization. While phishing uses a broader range of tactics, such as mass emailing to random recipients, spear phishing is often well-researched and tailored to high-value targets.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Antivirus Software WiFi 6 Routers Virtual Private Networks Password Managers Email Security Software Web Application Firewall Bot Management Software. Phishing is a major problem for both consumers and businesses, and many phishing attempts come through email. Web Application Firewall (WAF). Antivirus Software.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In the survey, cybersecurity spending came out ahead of other hot areas such as the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). Phishing , general malware , and Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks are more common. The company is best known for its firewalls, but it also offers one of the lowest-cost EDR products around.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Social engineering can manifest itself across a wide range of cybersecurity attacks: Phishing Smishing Vishing Whaling Pharming Baiting Pretexting Scareware Deepfakes. Phishing is a broad category of social engineering attacks that specifically target most businesses’ primary mode of communication: email.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2022

Each firewall, IDS, MFA, and email security is built to protect and stop cyber attacks. More and more businesses are using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve efficiency. However, deploying unproven artificial intelligence (AI) could result in unexpected outcomes, including a higher risk of cybercrime.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Gartner gave it top place in unified threat management (UTM), and it was named a Leader in next-gen firewalls (NGFW). But constant breaches of organizations large and small, and a trail of victims to ransomware and phishing opened a massive opportunity. It offers firewalls, endpoint protection, cloud access and more.

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Join the thousands of Palo Alto firewall customers who take advantage of protecting Palo Alto VPN logins with Duo Single Sign-On via SAML 2.0 Reasons to move to Duo SSO with Palo Alto VPN All of the following functionality is only available for Palo Alto VPNs using the Duo Universal Prompt and protecting Palo Alto Firewalls with SAML 2.0.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Cyber Threats: AI-powered phishing and deepfakes are cited as major risks by late adopters, while early adopters are more worried about advanced threats like model poisoning and tampering. Application Security: Vulnerability scanning, API security, and LLM firewalls are becoming standard.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

User data was stolen from Cisco Duo, a service that provides organizations with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) network access, as a consequence of a phishing attack targeting an employee of a third-party telephony provider. Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities What happened? Why does it matter?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The tools also depend upon physical controls that should also be implemented against malicious physical access to destroy or compromise networking equipment such as routers, cables, switches, firewalls, and other networking appliances. These physical controls do not rely upon IT technology and will be assumed to be in place.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Why should I care about Phish? The reason why phishing is still reigning supreme?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

When the internet arrived, the network added a firewall to protect networks and users as they connected to the world wide web. Technical controls may be implemented by: Hardware appliances : switches, routers, firewalls, etc. In a complex, modern network, this assumption falls apart.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 29, 2024

Consolidating security telemetry data, upgrading your organization’s cybersecurity posture, and integrating with various artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) engines are essential to combatting adversarial AI and ML models. AI-Powered Email Phishing 91% of all cyberattacks start with email phishing.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Firewalls on the other hand were considered a lot more important back then. Phishing emails. With the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) these techniques will become even better and can be fine-tuned so they can be adapted to the intended victim and become more targeted. Why pay when you can get it for free?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2022

Between malware , phishing attacks , zero-day threats , advanced persistent threats , reconnaissance, and brute force attacks, hackers are looking for any and every avenue into a network. Cisco also offers Firepower NGFWv, a virtualized version of the firewall solution. However, the phishing feature requires a browser plug-in.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

Between malware , phishing attacks , zero-day threats, advanced persistent threats , reconnaissance and brute force attacks, hackers are looking for any and every avenue into a network. It uses AI-powered threat detection and response to keep up with attackers who incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning into their methods.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2024

Installed antivirus, EDR, extended detection and response (XDR), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and next generation firewalls (NGFW) monitor endpoints and networks for signs of malicious activity – especially types of ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

2023 Rewind — Cyber Trends and Threats The generative AI (r)evolution 2023 will be remembered as the year artificial intelligence (AI) rose to the forefront of our collective consciousness, ushering in never before seen opportunities and risks.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports. These priority maintenance requirements should also be extended to other security solutions that protect DNS servers such as firewalls and antivirus applications. Hide the primary DNS server from public access through network isolation and firewall configuration.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 17, 2022

It was once the case that cybersecurity technology consisted of little more than a firewall and antivirus software. This is a form of assessment where cybersecurity professionals use tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by criminal hackers, such as phishing, SQL injection, brute force, and deployment of custom malware.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

SWGs achieve this by blocking web-based attacks that forward malware, phishing , drive-by downloads, ransomware, supply chain attacks , and command-and-control actions. Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML) to detect, classify, and stop attacks and enforce acceptable use policies.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In cybersecurity, Cisco invested early in IPS, Firewall, VPN, and endpoint security; they produced exceptional results. A significant component of this is the emergence of artificial intelligence and machine learning to become embedded across every aspect of the enterprise, service provider, and government systems.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Encryption, firewalls, and secure access controls are just a few of the measures that banks implement to ensure customer data remains protected. Phishing Attacks Phishing remains one of the most prevalent threats in the banking industry. AI is particularly effective at mitigating phishing and fraud attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. Deny-lists (aka: blacklist) : Blocks specific websites or IP addresses by adding them to a list for firewalls to ignore; very difficult to manage at scale.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Protection features include anti-spam, anti-fraud, anti-phishing , web attack prevention, vulnerability assessment, advanced threat defense, and complete real-time data protection. Through powerful artificial intelligence-guided (AI) investigations, you can make sense of data and reduce alert fatigue. Key Differentiators.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 4, 2021

Playbooks provide defenders with winning strategies against present and future cyberattacks and when paired with Artificial Intelligence (AI), security teams can leverage them to build an advanced, proactive protection framework. Most importantly, the human firewall of defence remains as important as the technology that sits behind it.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Another example seen this year was KV-Botnet , which was deployed on vulnerable firewalls, routers and IP cameras and used to conceal the malicious activities of Volt Typhoon, the actor behind it. This is especially true for phishing attacks, as generative AI tools are now capable of composing well-written, illustrated phishing emails.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A network firewall. Anti- phishing , anti-fraud and anti-spam features. For an introductory price of $45 a year for 10 Windows and macOS devices and unlimited Android and iOS devices, you get predictive artificial intelligence (AI) threat detection that can stop unknown threats and learns by experience (how cool is that?),

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Spinone

APRIL 24, 2020

Currently, cyberattacks on the cloud are mostly performed with age-old techniques like phishing. Such cloud-to-cloud attacks will easily bypass on-premise and network firewall protection. SpinOne leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to detect potential threats. To help you, we’ve created SpinOne for G Suite.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

You should ensure that the products you are considering can integrate with other security solutions you already have in place, including: Security incident event manager (SIEM) Next-generation firewalls (NGFW) User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) Endpoint detection and response (EDR). Enterprises Today Rely on IT Risk Management.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

With ML and artificial intelligence (AI) using thousands of strains to train algorithms, one would surmise that the ability to detect malware is only improving. Whether it’s a VPN , firewall , or remote access server, unauthorized entry via network gateways is a problem. Gateway Compromise. Malicious Cloud Applications.

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