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GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

The Last Watchdog

With proper training, employees can prevent these attacks before they happen. While the protection of the company’s assets can never be completely guaranteed, security awareness training should be a top priority for business owners. Provide frequent training about the risks of cyberattacks.

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Frost & Sullivan databases available for sale on a hacker forum

Security Affairs

business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, a threat actor is offering for sale its databases on a hacker forum. Frost & Sullivan is a business consulting firm involved in market research and analysis, growth strategy consulting, and corporate training across multiple industries. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Organisations ignore cyber security staff training in favour of unnecessary technological solutions

IT Governance

UK organisations are overlooking the importance of cyber security staff awareness training, instead investing in expensive and unnecessary technologies, a VMware and Forbes Insight study has found. So, why are businesses trapped in this cycle of investing in cyber security solutions they don’t need?

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Russia-linked APT29 group exploited WinRAR 0day in attacks against embassies

Security Affairs

The threat actors used a lure document (“DIPLOMATIC-CAR-FOR-SALE-BMW.pdf”) containing images of a BMW car available for sale to diplomatic entities. “In the context of this particular attack, a script is executed, generating a PDF file featuring the lure theme of a BMW car for sale.

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New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

Krebs on Security

A large cache of more than 500 documents published to GitHub last week indicate the records come from i-SOON , a technology company headquartered in Shanghai that is perhaps best known for providing cybersecurity training courses throughout China. i-SOON CEO Wu Haibo, in 2011. i-SOON CEO Wu Haibo, in 2011. Image: nattothoughts.substack.com.

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Phorpiex botnet sent millions of phishing emails to deliver LockBit Black ransomware

Security Affairs

” To defend against ransomware campaign like this one, NJCCIC provided the following recommendations: Security Awareness Training : Engage in security awareness training to enhance defense mechanisms and recognize potential signs of malicious communications. All associated emails were blocked or quarantined.”

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Retail giant Home Depot agrees to a $17.5 million settlement over 2014 data breach

Security Affairs

Hackers compromised the company point-of-sale (PoS) systems with malware that was designed to steal payment card data. . Home Depot also agreed to implement and maintain additional security practices in the future to prevent similar attacks. ” .

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