eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Cyberattacks are on the rise, with cyber criminal trends and techniques becoming increasingly sophisticated and creative. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 Ransomware. Other methods.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cryptojacking , the practice of taking over a computer’s processes in order to mine cryptocurrency, is a popular method of blockchain-related fraud, often introduced via malicious links or by being directly installed on computers by someone with access.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2018

This year, everything was up by about 25%: I avoid focusing on the raw numbers when it comes to Google Analytics as they're increasingly skewed by ad / tracker blockers, but it's still useful to get an overall trend of things. It was a massive year for encrypted web communications and people have really eaten up material on it.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

While 2021 has been noteworthy for headline-grabbing ransomware attacks like the one on Colonial Pipeline , the trend toward bigger targets had been underway before then, Samani told eSecurity Planet in an email interview. We see that trend in cybercrime almost every year after Christmas and holidays,” he said. Initial Access.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. Hanslovan: So we noticed it was a trend like all things cat and mouse base and hackers were really getting ticked off that their malicious payloads were getting caught by the antivirus.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 2, 2021 If you're not familiar with hashing, how it's not the same as encryption and how it can still leave passwords vulnerable, read this primer from September first. In total, the file has 43,015 unique email addresses (including mine) which is a far cry less than the total row count.

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