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Q&A: Crypto jackers redirect illicit mining ops to bigger targets — company servers

The Last Watchdog

It began when threat actors began stealthily embedding crypto mining functionality into the web browsers of unwitting individuals. Cryptojacking was born. One key bit of intelligence Bitdefender shares in a whitepaper is a breakdown of how EternalBlue has come into play, once again. Illicit crypto mining is advancing apace.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cyberattacks are on the rise, with cyber criminal trends and techniques becoming increasingly sophisticated and creative. Cyberattacks are on the rise, with cyber criminal trends and techniques becoming increasingly sophisticated and creative. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4

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Number of hacktivist attacks declined by 95 percent since 2015

Security Affairs

Researchers analyzed data collected by IBM’s X-Force threat intelligence unit between 2015 and 2019. “Yet amid all the concern, there is one threat trend that our data suggests has been on the decline: hacktivism — the subversive use of internet-connected devices and networks to promote a political or social agenda.”

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

eSecurity Planet

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9 billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2

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The 9th edition of the ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) report is out!

Security Affairs

I’m proud to announce the release of the 9th edition of the ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) on the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. The Europen Agency for cybersecurity ENISA releases its ENISA Threat Landscape 2021 (ETL) report, which is the annual analysis on the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape.