CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Though the company sources have denied the media speculations about becoming a victim of a cyber attack, they did agree that a number of servers were disrupted by a digital hiccup. Screenshots of Conti group hackers encrypting the servers of Shutterfly are doing rounds on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This, of course, is the plot of endless dystopian books and movies that end with rogue machines in charge. After all, decentralizing smart functionalities does nothing to slow the expansion of the cyber-attack surface open to clever, motivated hacking collectives.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

MediaMarkt, the Europe’s number one consumer online retailer, has admitted that its IT infrastructure is working abnormally under the influence of a sophisticated cyber attack that appears to be of ransomware variant. But later chose to readily decrease the ransom demand to $50 million to be paid only in Bitcoins….a

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Two hackers from Vietnam launched a ransomware attack on the Britain-based Hotel Chain owner Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG). And since they were digitally blocked to conduct a file encrypting malware attack, they chose to delete huge amounts of data through a wiper malware.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 18, 2024

Likewise, information systems have allowed businesses to experience tremendous growth – today’s businesses face threats that, only a few decades ago, were the subject of solely science fiction books and movies. Today, cyber attacks can not only cause financial disasters, they can literally kill people.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2022

Blockchain-based cryptocurrency is an encrypted list arranged in chronological order providing a record of all addresses that hold assets. A Dark Pool is a separate DeFi order book not visible to the rest of the market that exists on a particular DEX. A blockchain is a distributed database shared among distributed networked computers.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 3, 2021

Leave it to malicious cyber actors to take advantage of a situation like this. The Italian region Lazio was recently hit with a cyberattack that affected the computer systems used in booking vaccination appointments. The booking of vaccine appointments remains offline. Cyberattack impacts Italian computer systems.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

If this is true, then it does not answer the question as to why many of the largest and best protected global corporations and Governments institutions worldwide have been victims of major Cyber-attacks despite deploying the most expensive defence solutions in the market. For more information on this breach, see Embraer Cyber Attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Reflecting on the Wannacry ransomware attack, which is the lesson learnt e why most organizations are still ignoring it. The cryptolocker had the task of encrypting the data of the affected system; The exploit was to infect the victim’s local network, if not properly updated, through the SMB protocol vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Adiantum will bring encryption on Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. Bank of Valletta shut down its operations after a cyber attack. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 20, 2022

From the H-Hotel release : “ unknown persons carried out a cyber attack on the IT network of the hotel company H-Hotels.com, which led to restrictions in digital communication. The cyber attack was discovered by the hotel company's IT security systems on Sunday. When an attack happens, who is contacted first?

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Very few weeks go by without news of another cyber attack or data breach and a quick scan of the BBC news website shows that in most months, there is at least one story that makes the national news headlines. The hacker group encrypted Travelex’s network and made copies of 5GB of personal data. SolarWinds.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

It is possible, if not probable, that we are about to witness an accelerated rate of adoption of cyber hygiene best practices, as well as more intensive use of leading-edge security tools and services. Shamoon motivated the Saudis to seriously ramp up the work of its National Cyber Security Center. Cyber hygiene isn’t difficult.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2024

Encryption Global events like the Olympics attract an extraordinary amount of attention. The National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) and Microsoft have both highlighted the increased threat of cyber attacks to global sporting events, which are enabled by a high level of cyber-physical convergence.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 25, 2024

Encryption Global events like the Olympics attract an extraordinary amount of attention. The National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) and Microsoft have both highlighted the increased threat of cyber attacks to global sporting events, which are enabled by a high level of cyber-physical convergence.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 21, 2024

The Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape The contemporary threat and regulatory landscape have pressed organizations to fortify their cyber-crisis management capabilities. In recent years, a surge in cyber-attacks targeting critical infrastructure has been observed globally. Book a demo today!

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 19, 2024

Likewise, information systems have allowed businesses to experience tremendous growth – today’s businesses face threats that, only a few decades ago, were the subject of solely science fiction books and movies. Today, cyber attacks can not only cause financial disasters, they can literally kill people.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Noted author and IBM security guru Bruce Schneier joins us to talk about his new book on Internet of Things risk: Click Here to Kill Everybody. Also: everyone knows that cyber security talent is hard to come by, and even harder to keep. Also: everyone knows that cyber security talent is hard to come by, and even harder to keep.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2020

And now, CEO Brian Humphries is telling analysts the attack's timing was part of a perfect storm. What happened in the Cognizant ransomware attack? Second, in the wake of the ransomware attack, some clients opted to suspend our access to their networks. What was Cognizant's ransomware response?

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Earlier in the week, the BBC reported that a ‘cyber incident’ (ransomware) at CTS, a legal tech firm (cloud MSP) in the UK, is leaving UK home sales in limbo: Cyber-attack leaves home sales in limbo CTS own Sprout IT as a core brand: Sprout IT ran Netscaler and hadn’t patched it until late. Their response? We’re all poorer.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

They would come for all kinds of data since data like credit card numbers equal directly to money, government or corporate secrets can be sold, and they can encrypt all kinds of critical data for ransom. They wouldn’t say no to corporate intellectual property since it can be used for further attacks. Share it with your friends.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

Why are cyber attacks still on the rise? But I guess what I'm trying to get at is, why is it [cyber attack] still on the rise ? And we're sitting there watching it and looking at the database, and I told him, I think someone's attacking your system right now because they're encrypting your files.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2022

trillion, said it experiences close to 100,000 cyber attacks a year. The level of attacks have doubled in the past two to three years, the fund told the FT. Shane Curran of Evervault, an encryption company, explains ‘day zero’ security. An excerpt from Mikko Hypponen’s new book, “If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

The last days of March 2019 are making headlines due to a targeted cyber attack involving a new variant of infamous EMOTET malware. Themida uses an extremely complex virtual machine environment combined with every anti-debug and anti-analysis trick in the books, combined with many different obfuscation methods.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. Here are the four courses you can take: Introduction to Cyber Attacks: You will learn a fundamental understanding of all the threats in www.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a few minutes I’m going to talk to a pentester who’s written a book that can help take your current skills as a sys admin and security engineer and turn them into skills needed to become a great digital pentester. available wherever books are sold. You are acting as your cyber attacker. I mean really?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a few minutes I’m going to talk to a pentester who’s written a book that can help take your current skills as a sys admin and security engineer and turn them into skills needed to become a great digital pentester. available wherever books are sold. You are acting as your cyber attacker. I mean really?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

HelpSystems’ award-winning MFT solution uses encryption and authentication to keep sensitive data secure when sharing files. Book a Meeting with the Team. With employees sending and receiving sensitive information to each other or to third parties, files can be easily compromised unless protected by a secure solution. .

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NetSpi Technical

AUGUST 16, 2024

Luke Langefels, Security Consultant One of the talks that I went to while at DefCon was Matt Burch’s presentation on defeating ATM disk encryption. Instead of reacting to each vulnerability as it was discovered, the proactive approach would have been to tackle attack vector at its source: the unencrypted file system.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Mikko Hypponen joins The Hacker Mind to discuss cybercrime unicorns, the fog of cyber war that surrounds the Ukrainian war with its much larger neighbor, and of course Mikko’s new book, If it’s Smart, it’s Vulnerable. But the full story of the bronze soldier affair is only becoming clearer now. That's not news.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Now comes a book by John Arquilla, titled Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare , that lays out who’s doing what, and why, in terms of malicious use of digital resources connected over the Internet. These include stronger encryption, much more efficacious cloud security and some type of behavior-based cyber arms control agreement.

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