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Employee cybersecurity awareness takes center stage in defense strategies

As cyberattacks intensify, more and more organizations recognize the need to have a strong security culture for all employees, according to Fortinet. Employee cybersecurity …

DBIR 2023
Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report: 74% of breaches involve human element

Verizon Business today released the results of its 16th annual Data Breach Investigations Report (2023 DBIR), which analyzed 16,312 security incidents and 5,199 breaches. …

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MOVEit Transfer hack fallout: BBC, Aer Lingus, Boots among the victims

The fallout of the MOVEit Transfer hack via CVE-2023-34362 by the Cl0p gang is expanding, as several UK-based companies have now confirmed that some of their data has been …

password
How fraudsters undermine text passcodes

Malicious bots are taking new forms – a burst of spam and scam text messages led to 18,000+ consumer complaints at the FCC last year. One of the newest scams – artificial …

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How defense contractors can move from cybersecurity to cyber resilience

As the world’s most powerful military and economic power, the United States also holds another, less impressive distinction: Cyber threat actors target the US more than any …

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Cybercriminals use legitimate websites to obfuscate malicious payloads

According to Egress, the evolving attack methodologies currently used by cybercriminals are designed to get through traditional perimeter security. “The evolution of phishing …

fighting ransomware
Fighting ransomware: Perspectives from cybersecurity professionals

Ransomware has become an ever-present threat to individuals, businesses, and even entire nations. In this Help Net Security round-up, we present parts of previously recorded …

phishing kits
Phishing campaigns thrive as evasive tactics outsmart conventional detection

A 25% increase in the use of phishing kits has been recorded in 2022, according to Group-IB. The key phishing trends observed are the increasing use of access control and …

email
Organizations spend 100 hours battling post-delivery email threats

Nearly every victim of a spear-phishing attack in the last 12 months saw impacts on their organization, including malware infections, stolen data, and reputational damage, …

Microsoft 365
Phishers use encrypted file attachments to steal Microsoft 365 account credentials

Phishers are using encrypted restricted-permission messages (.rpmsg) attached in phishing emails to steal Microsoft 365 account credentials. “[The campaigns] are low …

ransomware
New Buhti ransomware uses leaked payloads and public exploits

A newly identified ransomware operation has refashioned leaked LockBit and Babuk payloads into Buhti ransomware, to launch attacks on both Windows and Linux systems. Use of …

Legion AWS credential harvester
Legion AWS credential harvester and hijacker analyzed

Researchers from Cado Labs recently encountered an update to the emerging cloud-focused malware family, Legion. This sample iterates upon the credential harvesting features of …

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