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Cybersecurity CEO: Security Awareness is An Ongoing Commitment

Herjavec Group

According to Cybersecurity Ventures – cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 ! Cyber Primer for the C-Suite. These 10 data points illustrate the cyber threats faced by governments, businesses, employees, consumers, and students globally. This includes human and machine passwords.

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2022: The threat landscape is paved with faster and more complex attacks with no signs of stopping

Webroot

In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). The cybercrime marketplace also continued to get more robust while the barrier to entry for malicious actors continued to drop. Cryptocurrency.

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DDoS attacks in Q2 2021

SecureList

In particular, Gafgyt’s authors copied its implementation of various DDoS methods, such as TCP, UDP and HTTP flooding, as well as its brute-force functionality for hacking IoT devices via the Telnet protocol. Kaspersky has a long history of combating cyber threats, including DDoS attacks of all types and complexity.

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DDoS attacks in Q4 2020

SecureList

While the resource was down, cryptocurrency newbies were invited to download a copy of Bitcoin Core via a torrenting service. Cybercriminals used the names of well-known APT groups to intimidate victims, demanded ransoms in cryptocurrency, and carried out demonstration attacks to back up their threats. Statistics. Methodology.

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Microsoft Report: Scope and Scale of Cyber Threats Enormous, Global

SecureWorld News

Microsoft recently released its Digital Defense Report 2022 , examining the current threat landscape, touching on the first "hybrid war" that is the Ukraine-Russia conflict, reviewing the current state of cybercrime, and identifying the characteristics needed to successfully defend against future threats. The key takeaway?

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MY TAKE: What it takes to beat cybercrime in the age of DX and IoT: personal responsibility

The Last Watchdog

This makes Vidar capable of stealing cryptocurrencies from digital wallets. Vidar and microcode hacking are two grains of sand on the beachhead of 2019 cyber threats. Conjuring a full summary of cyber exposures would be daunting. Vidar, however, can identify browser and computer specifications at a granular level.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 444 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

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 (..)