Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

A recent domain hijack of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck.com was used to spoof the company in a spear-phishing campaign. . “They had all of our traffic and we were losing thousands of dollars daily in revenue.” ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle.

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Cytelligence

JANUARY 14, 2020

The variety show of phishing attacks – While email remains number one for phishing attacks, cybercriminals are also using a variety of other attack routes to trick their intended victims into giving up personal information, login credentials, or even sending money. Cyber Security Awareness Training . Eradication.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In 2023, ‘knowing thy enemy’ in cyber will be more complicated than ever before – but it is critical that organizations remain aware of the realities of cyber risk and cease to focus on the ‘boogie man’ of the internet that features in sensationalist reporting. 3 – Crypto-jacking neglect gets dangerous.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 29, 2024

Powered by WormGPT and FraudGPT, hackers and scammers will continue to drive the cost of business higher as organizations pay more for cyber insurance. AI-Powered Email Phishing 91% of all cyberattacks start with email phishing. These data sets provide the specifics for hackers to adjust their phishing attacks.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. This increase is likely driven by high employee turnover and easy access to phishing kits. Meanwhile, “RansomHub” is rising rapidly due to its attractive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. As ransomware keeps at its current pace, we see a boom in cyber insurance sales (see Ransomware Insurance: Cyber Insurance May Be the Best Protection ).

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Victims pay ransomware adversaries for decryption keys through cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin. Attackers guess the passwords easily, find them in open source code repositories, or collect them via phishing. Some can’t afford not to pay, and some are covered by cyber insurance. How does ransomware fuel criminal activity?

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

We are seeing increased use of AI to automate attacks, including malware generation and phishing campaigns. Insurance Becomes a Necessity The rise of high-profile cyberattacks has led to increased demand for cyber insurance. Ensuring visibility, control, and data protection across these environments will be paramount.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ransom payments are generally demanded in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. Implement good email phishing/SPAM filtering to help filter out obvious malicious SPAM emails with infected links, attachments, and other files. Just the ransom payment alone can be tremendously expensive.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As long as humans are well……human, phishing attacks will lead to ransomware infecting more and more networks, and businesses, municipalities and other organizations will continue to pay whatever they must in order to regain control of their data and systems. You’re going to have personal cyber insurance.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

CISA adds two F5 BIG-IP flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Threat actors actively exploit F5 BIG-IP flaws CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748 Pro-Hamas hacktivist group targets Israel with BiBi-Linux wiper British Library suffers major outage due to cyberattack Critical Atlassian Confluence flaw can lead to significant data loss WiHD (..)

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