SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has uncovered a new ransomware threat actor, Storm-050, targeting various critical sectors in the U.S., including government, manufacturing, transportation, and law enforcement. Implement advanced threat detection tools to identify and block ransomware campaigns early.

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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. Unsurprisingly, threat actors prefer to “work smart, not hard” to achieve their goals.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Russian-speaking threat actors are relatively new to the Big Game Hunting. Since March, the attackers have been trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers in Russia. As a contact email, the threat actors gave an email registered with ProtonMail.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

GenAI adoption is accelerating Broad Use Cases: More than 70% of professionals use GenAI for tasks like automating workflows, drafting documents, fraud detection, and data search. Industry Variances: Retail and manufacturing sectors show high adoption, deploying GenAI for customer service, inventory management, and fraud detection.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2021

of computers in the ICS engineering and integration sector protected by Kaspersky were targeted by malware, an increase compared with detections for H1 2020 (31.5%). Building automation, automotive manufacturing, energy and oil & gas, suffered major increases in the ICS engineering sector. In H2 2020, 39.3%

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

The sectors targeted by ransomware groups have also remained consistent: Professional services and technical services (PSTS) and manufacturing companies are primary targets because of their economic importance, low tolerance for operational downtime, and higher willingness to pay ransoms. to deliver timely detections for GreyMatter customers.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

The ransomware targets unpatched internet-facing servers, impacting systems across 70+ countries in sectors like critical infrastructure, health care, governments, education, technology, manufacturing, and small- to medium-sized businesses. Detect and address cloud misconfigurations to minimize risk.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Organizations based in countries where the political situation does not require addressing the above issues, should still consider the risk factors which affect everyone : The quality of threat detection decreases as IS developers lose some markets, resulting in the expected loss of some of their qualified IS experts.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Industrial control systems (ICS) are the backbone of critical infrastructure, powering essential operations in the energy, manufacturing, water treatment, and transportation sectors. These systems are integral to the smooth operation of industries such as manufacturing, power generation, oil and gas, water management, and more.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

The first mention of this malware appears to be in early 2020 , when multiple phishing campaigns cast a wide net over thousands of users, offering RedLine en masse. Seen in attacks against healthcare and manufacturing agencies, RedLine started with heavy-hitter industries and only got worse as more users purchased it. Email filtering.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

This very website was used to load the malicious script on the website of the largest manufacturer and distributor of cash handling products in North America, Block & Company. As a result, at least five websites created by the marketing agency for its clients were infected with JS-sniffers. First clue.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 11, 2022

Some on-premises use cases for this include video AI, synchronous media collaboration and industrial manufacturing. And these use cases can span many industries – manufacturing, public sector, healthcare, education, stadiums, retail and more.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

Threats increased between Q3 and Q4 at more than half (54%) of the organizations surveyed, with financial services (61%) and high-tech/business services (57%) reporting the highest rate of increase. Phishing remained the most frequent threat. We had a minor phishing breach through hosted email,” said another U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Anti- phishing , anti-fraud and anti-spam features. For an introductory price of $45 a year for 10 Windows and macOS devices and unlimited Android and iOS devices, you get predictive artificial intelligence (AI) threat detection that can stop unknown threats and learns by experience (how cool is that?), Parental controls.

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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. Unsurprisingly, threat actors prefer to “work smart, not hard” to achieve their goals.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This relentless innovation makes threat actors more refined, targeted, and efficient, enabling them to have a bigger impact despite efforts to curb their activities. To counter these methods, organizations should prioritize educating users on phishing and social engineering techniques.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Over half of AwareGO’s customers come from industries that are number one targets for cybersecurity attacks, including finance and insurance as well as manufacturing and energy. Monthly active users grew by 200% and monthly recurring revenue grew by 116%. sales team as well as the customer success and engineering teams.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 29, 2025

Top ransomware predictions for 2025Prediction 1: AI-powered social engineering attacks will surge and fuel ransomware campaignsIn 2025, threat actors will increasingly use generative AI (GenAI) to conduct more effective social engineering attacks. A top emerging AI-driven trend is voice phishing (vishing).

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Given the high cost and difficulty of detecting incidents, addressing Insider Threat is a key element of any organization’s cloud security strategy. In this in-depth article, I will cover the risks, priorities, and emerging security tools and the unique way in which McAfee detects and prevents Insider Threats.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016.

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McAfee

APRIL 20, 2020

It offers layered protection via a defense in depth approach to cybersecurity and has been developed using firsthand experiences of cyber defenders across various industry verticals such as retail, manufacturing, healthcare, government, etc.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Riskonnect GRC platform has specific use cases for risk management, information security, compliance, and audit professionals in healthcare, retail, insurance, financial services, and manufacturing. Enterprise threat detection. These modules include: Process control. Audit management. Business integrity screening.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Riskonnect GRC platform has specific use cases for risk management, information security, compliance, and audit professionals in healthcare, retail, insurance, financial services, and manufacturing. Enterprise threat detection. These modules include: Process control. Audit management. Business integrity screening.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Phishing and Social Engineering. How to Defend Against Phishing. Jump ahead: Adware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Also, that threat actors, especially state-sponsored, and criminal enterprises would take advantage of the expanding cyber-attack surface by using their resources to employ more sophisticated means for discovering target vulnerabilities, automating phishing, and finding new deceptive paths for infiltrating malware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

Regarding the dynamic analysis, it is worth noting that some sandbox environments might fail to detect the RAT due to its utilization of several techniques to evade virtualization and sandbox detection mechanisms and string encryption subsequent payloads.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nations Cybersecurity calls for promoting security with and in AI, saying it can speed up the identification of new vulnerabilities, scale up threat detection and automate cyberdefenses. IoT manufacturers will soon be able to seek the U.S.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

Insider threats are particularly insidious, as attackers increasingly rely on employeesmalicious or unwittingas entry points. Often, these threats are deeply hidden, making them harder to detect and manage than external attempts. million annually compared to those that don’t.

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