SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

And these vendors and partners often cannot tell when their own employees are compromised and used to send phishing or invoice fraud attacks,” said Roman Tobe, cybersecurity strategist at Abnormal Security, in an interview with SC Media. “The targeted company works with thousands of third-party vendors and supplychain partners.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In a significant cybersecurity breach — not as big as the NPD breach , though — Chinese hackers recently infiltrated the networks of major U.S. cybersecurity experts became alarmed when they noticed unusual data traffic linked to Chinese actors, specifically a hacker group identified as “Salt Typhoon.” Response From U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Penetration testing is a critically important cybersecurity practice, but one that many organizations lack the on-staff skills to do themselves. The company offers a range of pentesting services, including applications, networks, remote access, wireless, open source intelligence (OSINT), social engineering, and red teaming.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

This can occur due to data leakage through faulty apps or systems, by laptops or portable storage devices being lost, by malicious actors breaking through security defenses, by social engineering attacks, or by data being intercepted in man-in-the-middle attacks. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog series.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 20, 2023

and different types of penetration tests (black box, gray box, white box, social engineering, etc.). Number of people: If an organization decides to pursue social engineering tests, the organization may be charged by the number of people in the organization (unless flat-rate or hourly charges are used).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2024

HackerGPT, first launched in 2023, is a ChatGPT-powered tool that merges AI technology with cybersecurity-focused expertise. in February 2024, it serves as an extensive repository of hacking tools and techniques to actively assist users in managing complex cybersecurity protection strategies. Launch of HackerGPT 2.0

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

These flaws can be exploited in a variety of ways, including weak passwords, software flaws, and social engineering attacks. It is critical to keep software and systems up to date with security fixes. Employee training in recognizing and resisting phishing and other social engineering efforts is also important.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

“This is typically achieved through social engineering attacks with spear phishing to gain initial access to a host before searching for other internal vulnerable targets. Just because your Exchange Server doesn’t have internet-facing authentication doesn’t mean it’s protected.”

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

This method involves using emails, social media, instant messaging, and other platforms to manipulate users into revealing personal information or performing actions that can lead to network compromise, data loss, or financial harm. social engineering tactics and strange sender behaviors), they also use artificial intelligence algorithms.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2022

AI-based attacks: Bot-based attacks are getting better at mimicking user activity, more easily breaching the low-security defenses of many IoT devices. For this reason, basing trust on secure digital identities (not general external systems) becomes key to establishing true Zero Trust in the cloud, and across your ecosystem.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It simplifies operations by lowering the chance of configuration conflicts and misconfigurations or oversights that could affect security. Provide regular updates on firewall policy, changing threats, and best practices in cybersecurity. Why It Matters Preventing social engineering attacks requires user awareness.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Explore the IT infrastructure analysis portion of our security checklist: Cybersecurity Training Cybersecurity training is a workforce initiative that helps all employees identify threats and potential attacks. Social engineering, for example, is a threat that makes use of human vulnerabilities for illegal access.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ransomware Defense Integration Cloud storage combats ransomware threats with integrated protection mechanisms and extensive methods recommended by cybersecurity experts. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 60% of organizations will require integrated ransomware defense strategies on storage devices, up from 10% in 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Despite all the advances in cybersecurity, email remains the starting point for the vast majority of cyberattacks, as phishing, malware and social engineering remain effective attack techniques. That makes email security software a worthwhile investment for organizations of all sizes. user/month Coro edge: $11.99/user/month

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Whether you’re operating a global enterprise network or a small family business, your network’s security needs to be optimized with tools, teams, and processes to protect customer data and valuable business assets. Its use of AI and ML makes it possible for security teams to detect emerging threats like signature-less attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This year the cybersecurity community has also discovered several vulnerabilities in MFT systems that are being exploited in the wild. However, this year the cybersecurity community was much better prepared to counter attacks on MFT systems, so the consequences of attacks involving these vulnerabilities have not been as drastic as last year.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Insider risks can be attributed to a lack of awareness, employee unhappiness, or social engineering attacks. Malicious insiders may also leverage successful phishing attempts or lax credential security, resulting in unauthorized access to cloud resources.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

For example, they are shifting toward AI-driven social engineering attacks aimed at mobile users that exploit passkey and biometric authentication methods. Organizations and electoral stakeholders should proactively bolster cybersecurity measures to detect and counter these emerging threats.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A pentest report should also outline the vulnerability scans and simulated cybersecurity attacks the pentester used to probe for weaknesses in an organization’s overall security stack or specific systems, such as websites, applications, networks, and cloud infrastructure. Usable reports enable these goals efficiently and effectively.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

On February 24, the National Security Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) publicly warned that a threat actor had exploited a national documents circulation system (SEI EB) to distribute malicious documents to Ukrainian public authorities. webshells and Exaramel implants. Final thoughts.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

7 Benefits of Having a Password Manager More Secure Passwords Password managers can generate truly random passwords immune from social engineering attacks. Complex, truly random passwords immune to social engineering hacks can be generated. Visit Keeper NordPass : Best for quick implementation.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

BAS offers more than just pen testing and red team insights, going further in recommending and prioritizing fixes to maximize security resources and minimize cyber risk. Just a few years into BAS’s entry into the cybersecurity marketplace, vendors range from startups to fast-growing mid-sized companies.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The problem: CVE-2024-7971 is a high-severity type confusion vulnerability in Chrome’s V8 engine that North Korean actors exploited to execute code remotely. Victims of social engineering risked compromised systems and probable data theft. This resulted in the deployment of the FudModule rootkit.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It quietly makes its way past your security defenses into the heart of your data and keeps it hostage until you pay a ransom. As cybersecurity experts, we want users to understand how ransomware infects a system and help you to protect your data from it. Ransomware is a sly, silent, and vicious criminal.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The gang infamously uses complex tactics and techniques to penetrate victim networks, such as exploitation of software vulnerabilities and social engineering. Some of those samples had successfully evaded detection by all cybersecurity vendors. We ran our analysis on each of the samples.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Our report spotlights five major threat actors dominating the cybersecurity landscape in 2024 that every professional should know about. By examining their methods, motivations, and recent attacks, we equip enterprises with the insights needed to strengthen their defenses against these actors.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2024

Conduct user awareness training: Incorporate a focused training program into onboarding and workflow process so employees can learn about social engineering strategies, phishing risks, and cloud security best practices. Check out our extensive review on the best DevSecOps tools , covering their use cases, key features, and more.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In February 2024 , Connectwise was also hit by hackers exploiting two major security vulnerabilities. In June 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published, alongside other security agencies, a guide on how to secure remote access software and listed other potential vulnerabilities created by these tools.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel, like a password manager. Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys.

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Spinone

MARCH 20, 2019

This is especially true in the world of security. The best security defenses can be totally compromised by a single individual making the wrong decision, either accidentally or knowingly. Why is the “human factor” an extremely important part of the security equation?

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Our report spotlights five major threat actors dominating the cybersecurity landscape in 2024 that every professional should know about. By examining their methods, motivations, and recent attacks, we equip enterprises with the insights needed to strengthen their defenses against these actors.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As 2023 draws to an end and cybersecurity budgeting is nearly complete, it helps to consider the year’s events and try to predict next year’s trends. After receiving input from industry experts and doing my own analysis of the year’s driving forces, I identified five major cybersecurity trends. Bottom line: Prepare now based on risk.

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SecureList

MAY 7, 2025

Global ransomware trends and numbers With the International Anti-Ransomware Day just around the corner on May 12, Kaspersky explores the ever-changing ransomware threat landscape and its implications for cybersecurity. At the same time, the share of users affected by ransomware attacks increased by 0.02

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