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The City of Durham shut down its network after Ryuk Ransomware attack

Security Affairs

According to the local media, the City of Durham was hit with a phishing attack aimed at delivering the Ryuk Ransomware on the victims’ systems. A few days ago EVRAZ , one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies, has been hit by the Ryuk ransomware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware. Here’s How to Do It Right.

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News alert: Beazley reports on how AI, new tech distract businesses as cyber risk intensifies

The Last Watchdog

Bantick “As the MOVEit hack has proved, the bad actors are always looking for new ways to attack with tactics ranging from third party supplier attacks to more sophisticated social engineering and phishing attack techniques. Yet, boardroom focus on cyber risk appears to be diminishing.

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Vietnam-linked Bismuth APT leverages coin miners to stay under the radar

Security Affairs

Since at least 2014, experts at FireEye have observed APT32 targeting foreign corporations with an interest in Vietnam’s manufacturing, consumer products, and hospitality sectors. Microsoft warns of Vietnam-linked Bismuth group that is deploying cryptocurrency miner while continues its cyberespionage campaigns.

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Episode 204: Josh Corman of CISA on securing the Vaccine Supply Chain

The Security Ledger

residents that it can mine for intelligence. But in the vital healthcare sector, nation state actors are just one among many threats to the safety and security of networks, data, employees and patients. How is the U.S. government responding to this array of threats? Episode 194: What Happened To All The Election Hacks?

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Group-IB presented latest cybercrime and nation-state hacking trends in Asia

Security Affairs

The threats that are notable for the Asian region are represented by a significant number of attacks aimed at manufacturing of chips, microprocessors and system control boards of different IT vendors, whose principal manufacturing operations are located in Asia. Web phishing, which is another popular attack vector, has grown globally.

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4 Best Antivirus Software of 2021

eSecurity Planet

Anti- phishing , anti-fraud and anti-spam features. Email phishing filter. In the very difficult MITRE testing , Bitdefender was one of just seven vendors to score 90% or greater, a strong result in very difficult testing and better than some well-known names. Protection against sophisticated malware and zero-day attacks. Encryption.