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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

Security Affairs

Emerging threats Cybercrime often exploits precisely the lack of regulation and centralized controls of cryptocurrencies to deceive investors and embezzle funds through various forms of phishing, investment scams, digital wallet theft, ransomware, and illegal mining. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 417 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Top GRC Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Its features include: Compliance education & management.

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Top 10 Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Its features include: Compliance education & management.

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FritzFrog cryptocurrency P2P botnet targets Linux servers over SSH

Security Affairs

The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance sectors. ” The botnet’s P2P communication is encrypted using AES for symmetric encryption and the Diffie-Hellman protocol for key exchange. ” continues the report.

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What is Incident Response? Ultimate Guide + Templates

eSecurity Planet

Organizations must practice incident response if they want to stop data breaches and cyberattacks. Insider threats : This refers to the risk posed by individuals within an organization who have authorized access but misuse it to intentionally or unintentionally harm the organization’s security, systems, or data.