eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

These new attacks affect everything from private citizens and businesses to government systems; healthcare organizations; public services; and food, water, and fuel supply chains. Phishing attacks continue to dominate cyber threats. In 2015, global cyber crime had a cost of about $3 trillion, and the cost is expected to rise to $10.5

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Third-party governance. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The hackers targeted organizations across multiple industries and have also hit foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. “But in campaigns from July to August 2020, the group deployed Monero coin miners in attacks that targeted both the private sector and government institutions in France and Vietnam.”

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Joshua Corman, the Chief Strategist for Healthcare and COVID on CISA’s COVID Task Force, joins us to talk about the myriad of cyber threats facing healthcare and the vaccine distribution system and how the federal government is working to counter them. residents that it can mine for intelligence. Read the whole entry. »

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Related: Long run damage of 35-day government shutdown. Why we’re in the ‘Golden Age’ of cyber espionageThe fact is cyber criminals are expert at refining and carrying out phishing, malvertising and other tried-and-true ruses that gain them access to a targeted victim’s Internet-connected computing device.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 February 2018. I neglected to reveal the sum the criminals managed to mine in the few hours before they were detected.

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Adam Shostack

MAY 20, 2020

Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine. ” How the intrusion happens is about questions like: Is it phishing emails that steal creds? There is a tremendous amount that governments can do with data that they gather about themselves, and I look forward to the day we expect them to do it.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Ukraine is accusing Russian intelligence services of carrying out cyberattacks against one of its government organizations. Attackers launched a spear phishing attack using messages purporting to deliver accounting documents. Attackers launched a spear phishing attack using messages purporting to deliver accounting documents.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

To infiltrate critical infrastructure networks hackers will continue to use phishing as one of their main tools, but the focus of attacks might shift to vulnerable network equipment connecting the network to the Internet. In 2018 Group-IB detected five successful “51% attacks”, when attackers take control over at least 51% of mining power.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

The street address listed in the registration records for qksnap.com — 204 Beverley Glen Blvd — also shows up in the registration records for leakadvisor[.]com com , a domain registered in 2017 just months after Canadian authorities seized the servers running LeakedSource. Pictrace, one of Jordan Bloom’s early IT successes.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. 5 Common Phishing Attacks and How to Avoid Them? Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Once again thank you! Bluetana App allows detecting Bluetooth card skimmers in just 3 seconds.

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IT Governance

MARCH 16, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 16 March 2018. Data integrity is of paramount importance to Gwent Police and we continually review our governance procedures to minimise the risk of data breaches.”. Here are this week’s stories.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #27 | July 5th, 2023 [Heads Up] Massive Impersonation Phishing Campaign Imitates Over 100 Brands and Thousands of Domains A year-long phishing campaign has been uncovered that impersonates 100+ popular clothing, footwear, and apparel brands using at least 10 fake domains impersonating each brand. Government.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Third-party governance. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As I started delving back through my own writing over the years, the picture became much clearer and it really crystallised just this week after I inadvertently landed on a nasty phishing site. In the end I broke it down into 3 Ps: padlocks, phishing and privacy. I mean what's the remaining gap?

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Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

A keen sense of info literacy is required to execute records management and info governance functions with ethical outcomes. Should it exclude avoiding rogue apps, weak passwords, and phishing attempts? Like records management , info literacy has considerable social justice implications. I don’t think so. We are its champions, too.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

Incident response in the cloud. How is it different, and why do we need to pay more attention to it today, before something major happens tomorrow. It’s 3am and the call comes in. In a moment, I’ll introduce you to someone who is thinking about that problem and actively working to resolve it. Do you have a go to on premise, right?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

From bank transfer cons to CEO fraud to elaborate phishing and spear phishing campaigns, cyber criminals have been quick to use deception as a major means of infiltrating networks and systems, and for remaining undetected while inside. But it can work the other way. Key Differentiators. Key Differentiators. Key Differentiators.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

Australian education provider TAFE NSW hit by phishing scam (30). Air New Zealand warns Airpoints members after employee falls for phishing email (100,000). Multiple sites affiliated with the University of Florida student government hacked (unknown). Cyber attacks. European Central Bank says one its websites was hacked (481).

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 20, 2020

Given the scope of the hack, it is unlikely the accounts were compromised via typical credentials phishing. It is highly unlikely that Biden or Obama run their Twitter accounts – they have operatives to do that, so probably not much private gold to be mined at that level. Is there more info to be released, like DMs ?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Phishing attacks: Deceptive techniques, such as fraudulent emails or websites, trick individuals into revealing sensitive information like credit card and payment information, passwords, or login credentials. They may disconnect infected systems, disable services, or prevent suspicious connections. In either case, preparation is critical.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

US OCR imposes HIPAA penalty in phishing attack case The US Office for Civil Rights has imposed its first financial penalty under HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) for violations of the Act’s security rule relating to phishing. Data breached: 5 TB. The updated data point is italicised in the table.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

One Plugin, Over 4,200 Victims – When Thousands of Government Websites Were Hijacked to Mine Monero. A phishing attack scored credentials for more than 50,000 Snapchat users. Aperio Group client account data breached by successful phishing attack. Instead, cyber criminals seem to have shifted their focus to ransomware.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Professional services USA Yes 11,556 Poder Judicial de Santa Cruz Source (New) Legal Argentina Yes 8,732 J.D.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. Think of it as a Trojan horse.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. Used active multi-email engagements after effective phishing screenings. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

I read this while wandering around in LA on my way home from sitting in front of US Congress and explaining security principles to a government so it felt like a timely opportunity to share my own view on the matter: This illustrates a fundamental lack of privacy and security education. Including interns on exchange programmes.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

The federal government has become increasingly involved in pushing back against cybercrime, particularly ransomware. Ransomware is the Focus. But as it is with much in the cybersecurity world, there was a focus on ransomware in the report. This is a number of years old,” he said. “We It was really GandCrab that embraced the RaaS model.

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Adam Levin

MAY 13, 2019

Email is the preferred tool hackers use to access their targets’ networks: 83% of organizations reported phishing attacks in 2018, up from 76% in 2017. Domain names were initially intended as a means of identifying remote academic, military, and government locations. Email is foundational. It was made to communicate fast.

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