Chicago CyberSecurity Training

MAY 31, 2023

Image by jcomp on Freepik As the digital landscape continues to evolve, businesses of all sizes will face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. While larger corporations may have dedicated IT departments, small businesses often lack the resources to implement effective cybersecurity measures.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Their tooling wasn’t nearly as good as it is now, and they hadn’t linked their tooling with the business models. Today there are multiple routes to make money from an insecure business. Once they get in— via RDP or Phishing or Drive-bys —they are not only extorting people who want to get their data back.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2023

Latest email security trends Phishing and spear-phishing attacks: Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where cybercriminals use deceptive emails to trick recipients into divulging sensitive information or downloading malware. These attacks often rely on social engineering tactics and email spoofing.

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Cytelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Securing your business data is crucial for the protection of your sensitive information and maintaining the trust of your customers. The post Cybersecurity for Small Businesses: 7 Best Practices for Securing Your Business Data appeared first on CYPFER.

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SecureList

JUNE 26, 2023

Yet in reality, cybercriminals can target anyone, especially those who are less protected, while small businesses typically have smaller budgets and are not as securely protected as larger companies. That same year saw one of the worst ransomware incidents in history, the Kaseya VSA supply-chain attack.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2023

Attackers believed to have ties to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) are using Microsoft Teams chats as credential theft phishing lures. In the phishing attacks the group leverages previously compromised Microsoft 365 instances, mostly owned by small businesses, to create new domains that look like technical support accounts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

What started as notes from Nigerian princes that needed large sums of money to help them get home has evolved into bad actors that use refined social engineering tactics to convince the receiver to unknowingly share important information. In 2022, email phishing attacks made up 24% of all spam emails — up from 11% in 2021.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Trace Fooshee , a strategic advisor in the anti money laundering practice at Aite-Novarica , said the second stage requires banks to give the customer’s transfer order a kind of “sniff test” using “commercially reasonable” fraud controls that generally are not designed to detect patterns involving social engineering.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 352 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2023

The unauthorized actor conducted a social engineering attack on Mailchimp employees and contractors, and obtained access to select Mailchimp accounts using employee credentials compromised in that attack.” ” reads the notice published by the company. WooCommerce is said to have more than five million customers.”

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

IP theft has also become the cyber and technology risk for which businesses across the world feel least prepared, with more than one in four businesses (26%) reporting they feel ill-equipped to mitigate this risk.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2021

Most of the victims are small businesses operating in North America across multiple industries, according to Microsoft crooks behind this campaign are part of an extensive network that appears to be based out of West Africa. MICROSOFT.COM vs. MICR0S0FT.COM) or an uppercase “I” and a lowercase “l” (e.g. MICROSOFT.COM vs. MlCROSOFT.COM).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2022

There is a common misconception that small businesses aren’t targeted by cybercriminals. They surmise, “I don’t have anything of value compared to a big business.” One slip on a phishing email, one weak password, one orphaned account or a misconfigured privilege could wreak havoc — even for an SMB.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2023

Latest email security trends Phishing and spear-phishing attacks: Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where cybercriminals use deceptive emails to trick recipients into divulging sensitive information or downloading malware. These attacks often rely on social engineering tactics and email spoofing.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The attacks target both large and small businesses alike. In some of the attacks, there was a clear indication of social engineering bait used for the deliberate targeting of the app developers. Stories of ransomware assaults are common in many headlines worldwide.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2023

The unauthorized actor conducted a social engineering attack on Mailchimp employees and contractors, and obtained access to select Mailchimp accounts using employee credentials compromised in that attack.” reads the notice published by the company. “In reads the post published by TechCrunch.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Employee Training on Phishing and Digital Security. Hackers aren’t only coders — they’re also social engineers. One in 99 emails is a phishing attack , a fraudulent email designed to look legitimate so an employee will click on a malicious link inside or reply with privileged information.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

With fewer budget dollars and expert resources dedicated to cybersecurity than their larger counterparts, small and mid-sized organizations often make easier targets, particularly in today’s increasingly complex and connected cloud environment. FACT: Phishing and social engineering are the number one attack vector for SMBs.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Hackers target large and small businesses alike, but small businesses may be easier ransomware targets – and more easily put out of business. Hackers can target any of your employees with a fraudulent, “ spoofed ” email or several people in a specific department with a phishing campaign.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

Other cyber incidents are common, including phishing attacks , business email compromise, exploitation of cloud and software vulnerabilities , social engineering , third-party exposures, and more. Others specialize in small businesses that are often targeted by ransomware these days.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Canadians are facing a surge in scams as fraudsters exploit confusion around the Canada Post strike to target individuals with phishing, smishing, and deepfake scams. According to Octavia Howell, CISO at Equifax Canada, there has been an "exponential" rise in fraud attempts, particularly during the strike and the busy holiday season.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 10, 2022

This is the same as fixed rate, but with a single modifier based on the amount of perceived risk a business has (such as how much sensitive information is stored on its website). Again, typical for small businesses. How to save money on cyber insurance. Disable Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 28, 2025

Finland finds state support sharpens SME security A report has found significant improvements to the security of 50 small businesses in Finland after a national fund was set up to help them. Phishing season persists; but are passkeys the answer? Phishing accounted for 35 per cent of compromises.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Students will work with program advisors and technical experts using 21st century software to offer affordable cyber monitoring to municipalities, nonprofits, and small businesses that might not be able to afford ongoing threat detection services.

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Jane Frankland

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Cyber-attacks have risen from last year with the most common forms of attack being credential theft, phishing, misconfigured cloud, and vulnerabilities in third-party software. To prosper, every IT decision maker and cybersecurity leader must anticipate, and the easiest way to do this is by reviewing past performance – yours and the markets.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

This capability is particularly useful for devices or networks with frequently changing IP addresses, such as home networks, small businesses, or mobile devices. Social Engineering: Attackers may use various social engineering techniques to convince victims to run the malware.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In 2021, many businesses will continue to operate remotely as a result of the pandemic and there must be an emphasis on training employees on security best practices, how to identify modern threats such as phishing, and where company data is being accessed and stored. Tyler Moffitt, Sr. security analyst, Carbonite + Webroot.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

Hackers love small businesses. Currently, three times more small businesses are targeted by them than larger ones and around 60% go under within six months of falling victim to a cyberattack. The World Economic Forum reports the average share price can drop three points, even after six months. .

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 9, 2023

Best for: Small businesses, developers, pen testers, and consultants. Best for: The security needs of small businesses. WithSecure Elements Vulnerability Management automatically reports activities such as phishing sites, third-party scams, and brand violations. For a minimum of 250 assets, the platform costs $2.19/asset/month.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

The ever-present phishing challenge. We can forgive the general public for thinking that the phishing problem has largely been addressed, since these scams have littered our news pages and collective consciousness for many years. Security pros know better. Numbers from the 2020 report paint another picture. Tips for security leaders.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Individuals, small businesses, and enterprise organizations all rely on encryption to securely store and transfer sensitive data across wide-area networks (WAN) like the internet. With shared protocols and encryption algorithms, users can encode files or messages only accessible to other select clients.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We [Western Governors University] released games about phishing where they [users] could go in and drag and drop stuff— these interactive things, watching videos are voluntary. I can go into my [saved] folders, and find our folder on social engineering. The SecureWorld panelists suggest the following: social engineering methods.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

Last year, according to Verizon, 43% of cyberattacks targeted small businesses. Hackers are creative, adaptive, resourceful, and business-like. That could be through common hacking techniques like phishing, bait and switch, cookie theft, deep fake , password cracking , social engineering , and so on.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Hackers apply more sophisticated smart social engineering tactics. A usual way to get a ransomware infection is to click a phishing link and give permission to a risky app. Ransomware attacks O365 cloud of individual users, small businesses, and enterprise companies. Even the Office 365 cloud is vulnerable.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

Russia-linked APT29 group targeted dozens of organizations and government agencies worldwide with Microsoft Teams phishing attacks. Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported that the cyberspies conducted highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chat.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

The next year is set to test global defences as these adversaries amplify their tactics, targeting critical infrastructure and small businesses, intensifying their use of advanced strategies. Critical infrastructure face heightened risk from targeted disruptions, as do small businesses who are the backbone of the economy.

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