Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

How to stay safe, even when tech-savvy admins can't tell the difference between a scam and the truth.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 7, 2025

Check out best practices for shoring up data security and reducing cyber risk. And get the latest on cyber scams; zero-day vulnerabilities; and critical infrastructure security. 1 - CSA: How to boost data security and reduce cyber risk Risk assessment gaps. Siloed cyber tools.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Sophisticated adversaries: Nation-state actors, cybercriminals, and hacktivists are leveraging advanced tactics to target this sector. A report from 2023 revealed that 67% of energy and utility companies faced ransomware attacks, with many incidents exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2022

The potential for hacks and scams is limited to the imagination of the person or group performing them. It’s just as easy to access a brackets spreadsheet or document through Google Docs or Microsoft Office as it is to send an email attachment, and it poses less of a cyber risk. Invest in security-based products.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

For example, ReasonLabs researchers recently uncovered a scam that used stolen credit cards and fake websites to skim monthly charges off of unsuspecting consumers. These days, ordinary people are facing increasing —and more complex—threats than ever before.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

And sometimes, 23% of them experienced cyber-bullying and around 20% of them became a victim of a romance scam. Just by creating awareness among employees, using proactive security solutions, deploying MFA, using password managers can help in mitigating most of the cyber risks to a large extent. .

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Adam Levin

JULY 16, 2018

The personal data for up to 14 million Verizon customers was discovered on an unprotected web server in late June by a cyber risk researcher. The Verizon customer data was posted to a publicly-accessible Amazon Web Server by an employee of Nice Systems, which is an enterprise software company.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

The opportunities for scams are numerous when a single missing letter can take a would-be victim to a completely separate site. As in virtually every cyber risk, one path to risk mitigation here is education and training. Typosquatting relies on an attention deficit.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The opportunity to acquire them in bulk will be extremely attractive for actors involved in spam, online banking theft, scam, business email compromise (BEC), and account takeover (ATO) activities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As hackers and cyber crooks are always on a prowl of vulnerable of those who can be targeted easily by email scams, messages, malware or phishing attacks. However, not all seem to be merry for staying connected to the web 24×7.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In the spirit of empowering people and organisations to protect themselves from cyber risks, we’re going to look back at three of the main threats from the past year: ransomware , data breaches , and phishing. We’ll cover lessons to learn to prevent them from becoming risks to your business.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2025

From hyper-realistic deepfakes to advanced vishing scams, AI-generated threats have quickly raised the stakes for enterprise security.With AI fundamentally changing both how businesses operate and how cybercriminals attack, organizations must maintain a current and comprehensive understanding of the enterprise AI landscape.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

AI-powered social engineering makes scams more convincing, while stolen passwords enable criminals to log into corporate networks and move laterally unnoticed. By focusing on strong, simple, and modern identity protection, Thales helps entities build trust and stay ahead of evolving cyber risks.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 14, 2020

The latest risk for increased phishing attacks? Security awareness study: how do end-users view cyber risks? First, they showed subjects email phishing scams. The subjects thought they were less likely than are others to fall for phishing scams—evidence of 'self-enhancement.' How did the experiment work?

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SC Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Devon Ackerman, managing director and head of incident response for North America with Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice, said that the malicious actors behind this growing trend are “directly tied to ransomware groups” and are likely using automated scripts to seek out “Contact Us” or chat forms on the internet that they can abuse.

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Webroot

JULY 25, 2022

Cyber insurance becomes mainstream discussion. As cyberattacks have become more costly and more challenging to track, cyber insurance has gained prominence across the industry. The cyber insurance market is expected to reach around $20B by 2025. Cyber Resilience planning puts focus on recovery readiness.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

Cybersecurity US holds conference on military AI use with dozens of allies to determine ‘responsible’ use DFSA’s Cyber Risk Management Guidelines: A Blueprint for Cyber Resilience?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2021

Phishing scams, supply chain attacks and ransomware extortion — all pivoting, in one way or another, off the shifting operating environment – spiked. Company leaders can then make more informed decisions, not just about cyber risk mitigation, but also how to run their organizations more efficiently, overall.

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

The opportunities for scams are numerous when a single missing letter can take a would-be victim to a completely separate site. As in virtually every cyber risk, one path to risk mitigation here is education and training. Typosquatting relies on an attention deficit.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 3, 2022

As per Trend Micro’s recent international Cyber Risk Index (CRI) findings for the second quarter of 2021, 76% of those surveyed anticipate a breach within the next 12 months. As the complexity of corporate networks keeps growing, all the companies need to have complete visibility over their attack surface.” Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The account access could be sold in bulk to other cybercriminals to conduct traditional monetary scams. This group has been conducting various activities ranging from online shopping scams to phishing attacks since 2017. Hence, it opens up a wide range of possibilities. The group is allegedly led by a Nigerian goes by the nickname Sam.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 18, 2018

.” Compared with today, those were sleepy times – when you might update your desktop antivirus weekly or even monthly -like changing the batteries in your TV remote, but not be overly concerned about debilitating cyber attacks or scams, Schrader noted.

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Hot for Security

MAY 25, 2021

Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, spikes in online scams, fraud, identity theft, phishing and malware attacks have served as a constant reminder that individuals are waging war on two fronts. However, the increased exposure to cyber risks is not limited just to the remote-working population.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We hear it all the time from the virtual stage of regional SecureWorld conferences: Cyber risk is business risk. Yes, cyber risk is business risk. Here is more evidence that a view like that is accurate. Hedge fund firm: profits way up before the cyberattack. Levitas Capital was making a killing.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

Cyber attack instances are steeply rising across all sectors , leaving even the FBI to issue a bulletin about business email compromise (BEC) – the $43 billion scam. To address this gap, the JCDC is planning proactive measures for future cyber risks. The backbone of this planning is the JCDC’s 2023 Planning Agenda.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Perhaps now is a good time to reflect on how firms have tackled the existential challenge of increasing cyber risks in a rapidly changing online landscape. In a year of confusion, it’s easy to see how so many workers fell for such scams.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Financial Fraud: having a real patient's data can be used to commit medical fraud and scam the healthcare system. Hopefully medical organizations can learn from this research and use it to help reduce cyber risk.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

In the current digital landscape, identity security has gained paramount importance due to the growing cyber risks posed by phishing and social engineering attacks utilizing AI. Why is identity management and security important in 2023? “In

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2025

In addition, find out how AI is radically transforming cyber crime. And get the latest on open source software security; cyber scams; and IoT security. 1 - Tenable: Orgs using AI in the cloud face thorny cyber risks Using AI tools in cloud environments?

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2024

O'Malley continued: "To avoid falling for scams, I've adopted a practice of letting calls from people not in my 'favorites' list roll over to voicemail (bots never leave live voice messages), not responding to any unsolicited email and texts, and not clicking on any email addresses, phone numbers, or websites in unsolicited email and texts.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 11, 2022

From ransomware and scams to security frameworks and employee privacy, our 2021 ‘greatest hits’ show how broad the areas of cybersecurity and data protection can be. We begin with a look at a contentious topic: cyber risk insurance. However, John warned against thinking a cyber risk policy by itself is sufficient protection.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 22, 2021

Also known as cyber risk insurance, it’s now a prerequisite in some public sector tenders. Insurers know this and will say it’s a significant business risk not to have cover if a breach happens. That may be true, but the danger is, some companies could think a cyber risk policy by itself is enough.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The findings revealed that one in 10 had been the victim of a cyber-attack during the last year, growing to more than one in seven for firms with more than 50 employees. These results truly highlight the need to train and educate employees on cyber risks and prevent them from taking place. Using varied eLearning techniques.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For years, attackers have manually collected information about their target to send them scams (e.g., It will take new thinking like that to reduce cyber risk in the AI age. New kinds of Phishing attacks. Phishing attacks are a traditional but efficient way to compromise a network. ML can automate the whole process.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Best practice should include frequent rotation of pitch type and threat type; malicious link, malicious attachment, and pure scam threats present differently and have their own threat ecosystems that warrant their own test formats. The post The joy of phishing your employees appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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BH Consulting

JULY 17, 2024

Coalition said this highlights the importance of email security as a critical part of cyber risk management. A separate report on cyber insurance from Sophos also drew a connection between effective security controls and lower priced risk. MORE The UK NCSC has guidance on defending against business email scams.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 14, 2021

An explosion of cyber risks and a complicated and constantly changing threat landscape. A collateral effect of the rapid expansion of remote working has been the related cyber risk of cyberattacks aimed at the remote workforce.

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