Data Breach Today

JULY 30, 2019

Researchers Detail use of Machine Learning to Find Phishing URLs JPMorgan Chase researchers have published a new paper describing their efforts at developing a novel "early warning" system based on artificial intelligence algorithms that can detect malware, Trojans and other advanced persistent threats before the phishing campaign that targets the (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. Secure web- phishing. In the first six months of 2020, CERT-GIB blocked a total of 9 304 phishing web resources, which is an increase of 9 percent compared to the previous year.

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Elie

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this paper, we present the first longitudinal measurement study of the underground ecosystem fueling credential theft and assess the risk it poses to millions of users. million potential victims of phishing kits; and 1.9 Over the course of March, 2016–March, 2017, we identify 788,000 potential victims of off-theshelf keyloggers; 12.4

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Microsoft report details the use of LLMs for each APT group, for instance, the Iranian nation-state actor Crimson Sandstorm (CURIUM) used its AI services to generate various phishing emails, to generate code snippets and for assist in developing code to evade detection.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 6, 2019

phishing emails every week. There’s plenty of advice on how to spot phishing scams , but without any real-world examples that explain how they work, it can be easy to see the threat as purely theoretical. That’s why we’ve decided to review phishing attacks in practice. Your employees receive an average of 4.8 What’s the lesson?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2021

“Over the past month, operators of one of the top Russian-language cybercrime forums have been running a “contest,” calling for the community to submit papers that examine how to target cryptocurrency-related technology.” ” reads a post published by Intel 471. The submissions were accepted over a 30-days period.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Experts say the changes should help defeat many types of phishing attacks and ease the overall password burden on Internet users, but caution that a true passwordless future may still be years away for most websites. A March 2022 white paper on the FIDO approach is available here (PDF). Image: Blog.google. A FAQ on it is here.

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Data Matters

JUNE 13, 2022

On 28 th April 2022, the UK’s Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum ( DRCF )—a body bringing together four UK regulators—published two papers on algorithmic processing which focus on the risk/benefit analysis and the ways in which algorithms can be audited and regulated. Key takeaways from the DRCF algorithm discussion papers.

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IT Governance

MAY 24, 2021

A successful phishing attack does one of two things. Meanwhile, if the attacker uses a phishing scam to plant malware, the same damage will occur but in a different way. You can find out more about phishing and the effects it has by enrolling on our Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. Get started. Ransomware.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

Interesting paper by Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, Daniel Gruss. The paper: " Practical Enclave Malware with Intel SGX.". The upshot is that both Intel and AMD have assumed that trusted enclaves will run only trustworthy code. Of course, that's not true. The results are predictable. The results are predictable.

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IT Governance

JULY 6, 2020

Phishing and malware were the most common tools for cyber crime – and the larger the organisation, the more likely they were to fall victim. Among small businesses, phishing attacks were successful 29% of the time and malware 20% of the time. Beaming’s Five Years in Cyber Security found that 1.5

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

But when the interested party inquires about the listing, they are sent a link to a site that looks like Airbnb.com but which is actually a phishing page. Airbnb could help by adding some type of robust multi-factor authentication, such as Security Keys — which would defeat these Airbnb phishing pages.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You’re most likely to access data on your work computer or via paper records, but information can be found in many places. Criminals are far more likely to compromise information with cyber attacks – such as malware intrusion or phishing scams – because it can be done online. Get started.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In most cases, cybercriminals, while attacking cryptocurrency exchanges, use traditional tools and methods, such as spear phishing, social engineering, distribution of malware, and website defacement. Spear phishing remains the major vector of attack on corporate networks. Crypto exchanges: in the footsteps of Lazarus .

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IT Governance

JUNE 17, 2020

Individuals will still have to be wary of phishing emails and other scams – particularly if password information has been compromised – but there is a less immediate threat of fraud. IT Governance regularly publishes webinars and green papers , providing free advice delivered by experts.

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AIIM

MARCH 12, 2020

Digitize Everything that Moves: One of the key challenges to remote working is getting access to paper or other physical documents. Even if something is required to be retained in paper or physical format, it can still be digitized and made available to remote workers. Best practices for avoiding phishing and other attacks.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2020

Phishing scams. You can find an introduction on how to do this by reading our free green paper: Managing Remote Workers: With a Mind to Mental Health. Our COVID-19 – A challenge to business green paper outlines the problems you are likely to face as the lockdown continues and explains the steps you can take to address them.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The FTC also held both a panel of three research papers, and a separate presentation, on Algorithms. The final panel addressed a unique set of privacy risks affecting the Internet infrastructure arising during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the increased prevalence of phishing attacks and rapid spread of COVID-19 misinformation.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Threat actors launched spear-phishing attacks using emails with malicious attachments often disguised as PDF files. The attachments are “industrial-themed,” they include white papers, power plant diagrams, and quote requests for blueprints of facilities.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 4, 2019

Really interesting paper calculating the worldwide cost of cybercrime: Abstract: In 2012 we presented the first systematic study of the costs of cybercrime. In this paper,we report what has changed in the seven years since. The move to the cloud means that system misconfiguration may now be responsible for as many breaches as phishing.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

As noted above, people often reuse passwords to make recall easier, and many others use simple passwords or write passwords down on paper. People can be tricked into downloading malicious software through phishing or even through malicious apps. This method can be difficult to counter with technology. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The first phishing campaigns have already been sent and more will be coming that try to trick you into clicking on a variety of links about blood drives, charitable donations, or "exclusive" videos. The reports show that ransomware incidents have increased from 17% to 19%, often spread through phishing emails and malware.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 14, 2020

Employees have been forced to work with pen and paper, severely delaying the few processes that could still be performed, while several UK banks that work with the company have had to turn away customers who wanted to order foreign banknotes. The ransomware will then display a message demanding that the victim make a payment to regain access.

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IT Governance

JUNE 26, 2019

The most common form of social engineering is phishing. Although most phishing attacks are email messages, similar tactics are also common on social media and in text messages. Even if networks are resilient, the malware is frequently planted in attachments in phishing emails, which often sneak past security mechanisms unnoticed.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

. “Victims of the analyzed campaigns fit into the pattern preferred by this actor, such as air transport and government sectors in the Middle East,” reads the researcher paper published by the experts. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Paper Copy. Hackers launched phishing attacks aimed at bypassing Gmail, Yahoo 2FA at scale. The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Once again thank you! Patch it now!

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2023

The major breakthrough came in 2017 with the publication of the paper “Attention Is All You Need,” in which Google researchers set forth the transformer model. Also read: ChatGPT Security and Privacy Issues Remain in GPT-4 How LLM Technology Works in Security The core technology for LLMs is fairly new.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 26, 2020

They added: “Anyone could phish or contact any person that indicates telephone and email on his social network profile description in the same way even without the existence of the database.”. green papers , providing free expert website. I would appreciate it if you could ensure that this is made clear.”.

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IT Governance

JULY 29, 2019

Two of the biggest threats organisations face are phishing and ransomware , both of which exploit human error. If employees who receive phishing emails (which often contain ransomware) are unable to spot them, the whole organisation is at risk.

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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. Web phishing, which is another popular attack vector, has grown globally.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Unlike the other attacks listed here, phishing attacks target human weaknesses as opposed to technological vulnerabilities. You can learn more about these and other threats by reading our free green paper: Cyber incident response (CIR) management – An introduction. Cyber incident response.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Managing vendor risks includes putting pen to paper. Organizations are increasingly susceptible to risks outside their controlled IT infrastructure as they engage third-party vendors to manage online platforms and process data.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2020

Phishing scams. This included 471 fake online shops that were selling fraudulent virus-related items, 555 sites that distributed malware and 200 phishing scams. To help you manage these risks, we’ve created a series of free resources that address a variety of issues, including phishing emails and BYOD (bring your own device) policies.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2019

Paper Copy. Crooks abuse GitHub platform to host phishing kits. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition. Once again thank you! 60 Million records of LinkedIn users exposed online. INPIVX hidden service, a new way to organize ransomware attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Some 91 percent of the respondents agreed that passwordless authentication was important to stop credential theft and phishing. The legacy approach requires maintaining an expanding array of detection technologies put in place under the assumption that the password layer is paper thin.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The most common techniques are malware infection , ransomware and phishing. This could be as simple as grabbing someone’s bag when they’re not looking, or as complex as blagging their way into your premises and accessing paper records or a company computer. Cyber criminals do occasionally target specific organisations. Insider threat.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

Paper Copy. New phishing campaign targets bank customers with WSH RAT. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition. Once again thank you! Bella Thorne published her private nude photos before a hacker that was threatening her. NYT Report: U.S.

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