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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

“They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords. ” “The actors then convinced the targeted employee that a new VPN link would be sent and required their login, including any 2FA [2-factor authentication] or OTP [one-time passwords].

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IDIQ Names Industry Veteran Damian Bushnell Chief Product Officer

Identity IQ

Most recently, Bushnell helped oversee the company’s partnership with Bitdefender® Total Security with Premium VPN to add award-winning internet security software to the IdentityIQ suite of benefits. For more than two decades, Bushnell has been a technology and product leader in the consumer credit and identity theft protection industry.

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Selecting the Right Cloud SSO Solution for Your Organization

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The traditional IAM model has been to extend remote employees to access applications to employees from VPN and add multifactor authentication (MFA) to add layers of security to the VPN connection. Originally developed for consumer services, the FIDO2 standard evolved and was adopted by Microsoft for Windows Hello.

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IDIQ Names Industry Veteran Damian Bushnell Chief Product Officer

Identity IQ

Most recently, Bushnell helped oversee the company’s partnership with Bitdefender® Total Security with Premium VPN to add award-winning internet security software to the IdentityIQ suite of benefits. For more than two decades, Bushnell has been a technology and product leader in the consumer credit and identity theft protection industry.

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Ransomware world in 2021: who, how and why

SecureList

Hackers who are on the lookout for publicly disclosed vulnerabilities (1-days) in internet facing software, such as VPN appliances or email gateways. Access sellers. As soon as such a vulnerability is disclosed, they compromise as many affected servers as possible before the defenders have applied the corresponding updates.

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Evolution of JSWorm ransomware

SecureList

Energy and Utilities (10%), Finance (10%), Professional and Consumer Services (10%), Transportation (7%), and Healthcare (7%) were also at the top of their list. Make sure commercial VPN solutions and other server-side software are always up to date as exploitation of this type of software is a common infection vector for ransomware.

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Ransomware by the numbers: Reassessing the threat’s global impact

SecureList

In certain cases, they used spear-phishing campaigns to install Cobalt Strike RAT, while other attacks involved exploiting a vulnerable internet-facing service (e.g., Citrix ADC/NetScaler or Pulse Secure VPN) or weak RDP credentials to breach the network. Maze primarily targeted businesses and large organizations. Conclusion.