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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2023

IT Governance

Welcome to our September 2023 catches of the month feature, which examines recent phishing scams and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. Storm-0324’s phishing lures “typically reference invoices and payments, mimicking services such as DocuSign, Quickbooks, and others”.

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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. Technological tactics.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cisco Umbrella , analyzing the threat environment for 2022, found that 86% of organizations experienced phishing, 69% experienced unsolicited crypto mining, 50% were affected by ransomware, and 48% experienced some form of information-stealing malware. Phishing attacks continue to dominate cyber threats. Ransomware.

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

The Last Watchdog

The report outlines how cyber hacking groups are becoming more specialised and diversified, with some groups now using SME’s security systems as a training ground for new hackers to learn their trade.

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New Linux Malware Shikitega Can Take Full Control of Devices

eSecurity Planet

The infamous XMRig mines Monero cryptocurrency that is known to be anonymity-focused, as it’s particularly hard to trace back. Employees should be trained against various social engineering and phishing attacks, as it’s a classic vector used by cybercriminals to deploy malware. Shikitega installs XMRig version 6.17.0

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Weekly podcast: Reports galore and more cryptojacking

IT Governance

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. In all industries and across all regions, the greatest obstacle to security was found to be a lack of appropriately trained and skilled personnel. Here are this week’s stories. It was a paltry $24.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

which involve feeding training adversarial data to the classifier. The most common attack type we observe is model skewing, where the attacker attempts to pollute training data in such a way that the boundary between what the classifier categorizes as good data, and what the classifier categorizes as bad, shifts in his favor.

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