The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Also, whenever it is possible, activate two-factor authentication (2FA). As the use of Bitcoin has grown, so have the number of phishing and malware attempts that prey on naïve users. With a firm belief in the potential of blockchain technology, he is determined to contribute to the transformation of the payments industry landscape.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2020

With better audio and video simulations, phishing will move on from email and text to things like Facebook videos. Cyber criminals will continue to use blockchain technology for transactions. The growing fintech market will be targeted as new services and innovative solutions based on open banking are exploited by attackers.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Whether perceived or real, a lack of understanding about blockchain technology has slowed the adoption of advanced distributed database technology in the past decade. This functionality makes forging a record in a blockchain ledger extremely difficult at best. However, federal officials didn’t reverse the blockchain transaction.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2018

The first month of 2018 set a record: due to growing interest in cryptocurrencies and the blockchain industry, in January the number of incidents jumped by 689% compared to the 2017 monthly average. The first and main cause is that both users and exchanges omit to use two-factor authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 21, 2021

Also Read: Hacking Blockchain with Smart Contracts to Control a Botnet. Like cryptocurrency, NFTs are bought and sold through a blockchain that permanently records the transaction, but no one NFT is identical to another, unlike most crypto coins. Also Read: Could Blockchain Improve Security? Phishing Campaigns.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 19, 2023

There are also experiments with various technologies like NFTs (non-fungible tokens), blockchain, crypto, and virtual reality (VR). Existing approaches will prove useful, such as single sign-on (SSO) , multi-factor authentication (MFA) , and endpoint detection and response (EDR). Granted, the investments are in the early stages.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Unauthorized SIM swaps often are perpetrated by fraudsters who have already stolen or phished a target’s password, as many financial institutions and online services rely on text messages to send users a one-time code for multi-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. A report commissioned by Sen.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Role-based access control (RBAC) and multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) regulate resource access. API Security: API security focuses on preventing unwanted access to application programming interfaces by establishing adequate authentication and authorization processes. Encryption protects data both in transit and at rest.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

According to a report published by blockchain analytics company Chainalysis, the Hive ransomware is one of the top 10 ransomware strains by revenue in 2021. In some attacks the group was able to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA) and gained access to FortiOS servers by exploiting the CVE-2020-12812 vulnerability.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

According to Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis firm, there has been a significant increase in the amount of stolen assets by North Korea-backed hackers. You need to know what happens when your employees receive phishing emails: are they likely to click the link? million simulated phishing security tests.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For example, an employee who clicks on a phishing e-mail always uses the same authentication credentials for work and private accounts or connects corporate devices to USB sticks or sites from which the threat actor can enter systems. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyberattack).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This includes people who run or work at cryptocurrency-focused companies; those who participate as speakers at public conferences centered around Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies; and those who like to talk openly on social media about their crypto investments. ” TWO-FACTOR BREAKDOWN. ” Lt.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

International law enforcement operation disrupts LabHost phishing-as-a-service platform A law enforcement operation involving 19 countries has disrupted LabHost, one of the world’s largest phishing-as-a-service platforms. 37 suspects have been arrested and the LabHost platform has been shut down. of its Cyber Assessment Framework.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

By 1999, its successor – the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol – offered a more robust cryptographic protocol across technical components like cipher suites, record protocol, message authentication , and handshake process. HTTP over SSL or HTTP over TLS, dubbed HTTPS, wasn’t immediately adopted by the masses.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Indeed, organizations should be preparing to deploy such enterprise-level, targeted guidance strategies today, as doing so will prepare them for what will become increasingly complicated cybersecurity issues going-forward, in areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, and smart contract spaces. Source Authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The FaceTime bug definitely proves that your phone can be used as a remote listening device "without any authentication" — Marcus J. Her research includes artificial intelligence , blockchain technology, and how psychology applies to IT. You are going to be phished long before you are going to be hit with CIA 0days.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ransomware attacks use malware, often injected through phishing schemes, to infect a victim’s computer system and to restrict the victim from accessing the system, stored data, or files by encrypting them. According to a prominent blockchain analysis firm whose tools aided in the U.S. Background. The Suex Sanctions.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

One way to achieve this is to embrace a passwordless approach to authentication. Companies have gotten better at authenticating their human users. This presents an even bigger challenge than human user authentication, due to the great variety of devices and machines. Sascha Fahrbach , cybersecurity evangelist, Fudo Security.

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