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Microsoft’s case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days

Security Affairs

Microsoft shared details of the Emotet attack suffered by an organization named Fabrikam in the Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART ) Case Report 002 , where Fabrikam is a fake name the IT giant gave the victim. “We are glad to share the DART Case Report 002: Full Operational Shutdown.

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Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware? Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials

Elie

In this paper, we present the first longitudinal measurement study of the underground ecosystem fueling credential theft and assess the risk it poses to millions of users. million potential victims of phishing kits; and 1.9 Drawing upon Google as a case study, we find 7–25% of exposed passwords match a victim’s Google account.

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Emotat Malware Causes Physical Damage

Schneier on Security

The Emotet payload was delivered and executed on the systems of Fabrikam -- a fake name Microsoft gave the victim in their case study -- five days after the employee's user credentials were exfiltrated to the attacker's command and control (C&C) server. I can't find any information on what kind of attachment.

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SentinelOne Product Review

eSecurity Planet

SentinelOne offers protection against executables, memory-only malware, exploits in documents, spear phishing emails, macros, drive-by downloads and other browser exploits, scripts such as Powershell, and credential encroachments. SentinelOne case studies. It can support use cases across a variety of industries.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 258

Security Affairs

addresses two zero-days exploited in the wild Microsofts case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days New Coronavirus-themed campaign spread Lokibot worldwide. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Watch out, ransomware attack risk increases on holidays and weekends, FBI and CISA

Security Affairs

.” Clearly, the FBI and CISA focus on attacks against organizations in the United States, they proposed as case studies the attacks against Colonial Pipeline , JBS , and Kaseya. based critical infrastructure entity in the Energy Sector, resulting in a week-long suspension of operations. ” reads the joint alert.

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5 best online cyber security training courses and certifications in 2020

IT Governance

To help you on your way, we have made a number of our courses available remotely, enabling you to study from the comfort of your own home and without jeopardising your health. You’ll learn about topics such as malware, social engineering, phishing, password security and remote working, providing you with complete cyber security coverage.