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The future of cybersecurity: Anticipating changes with data analytics and automationIn this Help Net Security interview, Mick Baccio, Staff Security Strategist at Splunk SURGe, discusses the future of cybersecurity, emphasizing the importance of data analytics and automation in addressing evolving threats. Rise in cyberwarfare tactics fueled by geopolitical tensionsIn this Help Net Security interview, Matt Shelton, Head of Threat Research and Analysis at Google Cloud, discusses the latest Threat Horizons Report, which provides intelligence-derived trends, expertise, and recommendations on threat actors to help inform cloud customer security strategies in 2024.
The number of senior business executives stymied by an ongoing phishing campaign continues to rise with cybercriminals registering hundreds of cloud account takeovers since spinning it up in November. In addition to the hundreds of ATOs, "Dozens" of Azure environments were also compromised, Proofpoint said.
Highly targeted phishing campaigns against specific individuals or types of individuals are known as spear phishing. While phishing is generalized in that one phishing email may be sent to millions of people, spear phishing is highly targeted.
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to the "democratization" of the phishing ecosystem owing to the emergence of Telegram as an epicenter for cybercrime, enabling threat actors to...
New phishing attacks abuse Microsoft Teams group chat requests to push malicious attachments that install DarkGate malware payloads on victims' systems. The attackers used what looks like a compromised Teams user to send over 1,000 malicious Teams group chat invites, according to AT&T Cybersecurity research.
One of the best defenses against credential-stealing phishing attacks is multifactor authentication. MFA introduces several extra security factors in the authentication process, including: something you know, something you have and/or something you are.
A widespread Facebook phishing campaign stating, "I can't believe he is gone. I'm gonna miss him so much," leads unsuspecting users to a website that steals your Facebook credentials. The phishing campaign started around a year ago, with Facebook having trouble blocking the posts as they continue to this day.
The threat actor tracked as TA866 has resurfaced after a nine-month hiatus with a new large-volume phishing campaign to deliver known malware families such as WasabiSeed and Screenshotter. The...
The Russia-linked threat actor known as COLDRIVER has been observed evolving its tradecraft to go beyond credential harvesting to deliver its first-ever custom malware written in the Rust...
In a seizure warrant application, the U.S. Secret Service sheds light on how threat actors stole $34,000 using fake antivirus renewal subscription emails. The now-executed seizure warrant was submitted by Special Agent Jollif of the United States Secret Service to recover funds stolen in a fake Norton subscription renewal email that led to the threat actor gaining access to a victim's PC and bank account.