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Seven Key Ingredients to Effective Incident Response

With ransomware attacks on the rise, organizations need to upgrade their incident response processes to improve speed and precision.

Cybercrooks Frame Targets by Planting Fabricated Digital Evidence

The ‘ModifiedElephant’ threat actors are technically unimpressive, but they’ve evaded detection for a decade, hacking human rights advocates' systems with dusty old keyloggers and off-the-shelf RATs.

India-Linked Threat Actor Involved in Spying, Planting Evidence

For roughly a decade, a previously unknown advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been engaging in long-term surveillance operations against academics, activists, journalists, human rights defenders, and law professionals, SentinelOne reports.

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What CISOs Should Tell the Board About Log4j

It's time for a reset with the board of directors. Very few have a dedicated, board-level cybersecurity committee, which means cybersecurity isn't viewed as a critical executive function.

Cybersecurity Authorities Issue Advisory on Significant Increase in Ransomware Attacks

Cybersecurity authorities from Australia, the UK, and the US published a joint advisory on Wednesday warning of an increase in organized, high-impact ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure organizations across the world in 2021. The attacks targeted a broad range of sectors, including defense, emergency services, agriculture, government facilities, IT, healthcare, financial services, education, energy, charities, legal institutions, and […]

Credential-Stuffing Attacks on Remote Windows Systems Took Off in 2021

Password-guessing became last year's weapon of choice, as attackers attempted to brute-force vulnerable Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers, SQL databases, and SMB file shares.

CISA, FBI, NSA Issue Advisory on Severe Increase in Ransomware Attacks

Cybersecurity authorities from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. have published a joint advisory warning of an increase in sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure organizations across the world in 2021. The incidents singled out a broad range of sectors, including defense, emergency services, agriculture, government facilities, IT, healthcare, financial

Meta and Chime Sue Nigerians Behind Phishing Attacks

Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has filed a lawsuit with financial technology and digital banking company Chime against two Nigerian individuals who allegedly used Instagram and Facebook accounts to impersonate Chime and target users in phishing attacks. The two defendants, Arafat Eniola Arowokoko and Arowokoko Afeez Opeyemi, allegedly used a network of at least 5 […]

Experts: Several CVEs from Microsoft’s February Security Update Require Prompt Attention

Microsoft's release of relatively sparse vulnerability information makes it difficult for organizations to prioritize mitigation efforts, security experts say.

Linux Malware on the Rise

Ransomware, cryptojacking, and a cracked version of the penetration-testing tool Cobalt Strike have increasingly targeted Linux in multicloud infrastructure, report states.

Russian Law Enforcement Take Down Several Cybercrime Forums

Russian authorities this week announced that they have seized Ferum Shop, Sky-Fraud, and Trump’s Dumps, three well-known online shops for stolen payment card data.

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FBI Received 1,600 SIM Swapping Complaints in 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week announced that between 2018 and 2021 its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 1,900 complaints related to SIM swapping.

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