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Fairfax County Public Schools hit by Maze ransomware

Security Affairs

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), one of the largest school divisions in the US, was hit by Maze ransomware operators. Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) was victim of an attack carried out by the Maze ransomware operators. “FCPS recently learned that ransomware was placed on some of our technology systems. .

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Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020

Security Affairs

Ransomware , the headliner of the previous half-year, walked off stage: only 1 percent of emails analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB) contained this kind of malware. Secure web- phishing. Ransomware operators have focused on targeted attacks,choosing large victims with a higher payment capacity.

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Reading the 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report

Security Affairs

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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How to Prevent Data Breaches: Data Breach Prevention Tips

eSecurity Planet

And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices. Prioritize Data Protection The downfall of many security strategies is that they become too general and too thinly spread. But it requires different levels of security.

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A flaw in Microsoft OAuth authentication could lead Azure account takeover

Security Affairs

Experts from Cyberark discovered the following three vulnerable Microsoft applications that trust these unregistered domains Portfolios , O365 Secure Score , Microsoft Service Trust. You can see more API calls documented here.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies

Security Affairs

The domain validtree.com is registered through namecheap.com on 2017-12-07T15:55:27Z but recently renewed on 2019-10-16T05:35:18Z. Attached to the email a suspicious word document was waiting to be opened from the victim. By opening the word document the victim displays the following text (Image1). kvas/ http[://66.133.129.5/~nsmarc1166/

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Weekly podcast: A recap of the top stories of 2017 and a look ahead to 2018

IT Governance

This week, we look back at the big news from last year, and consider what the next 12 months have in store. As it’s the first one, let’s have a brief recap of some of last year’s biggest stories, and then look ahead to what we can expect from the next 12 months. Hello and welcome to the first IT Governance podcast of 2018.