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Acronis researchers have concluded that ransomware continues to be the number one threat to large and medium-sized businesses, including government organizations. This Help Net Security video highlights why organizations and businesses need a more holistic approach to cybersecurity.
Traffers are generally organized as teams and compromise websites in order to hook the traffic and bring the visitors to malicious content. The typical organization for such a team is pretty straightforward: One or several team administrators lead traffers but also handle the malware licenses and the analysis and selling of the logs collected by the traffers.
In this interview for Help Net Security, Katie Taitler, Senior Cybersecurity Strategista at Axonius, talks about cyber threats in the energy sector and what should be improved to make sure this sector is properly guarded. What are the reasons the energy sector is so unprepared for these growing cyber threats?
It can brute force passwords in the 9-12 character range too, if attackers just complement its speed with a few basic rules, masks, and dictionaries. Threat actors could still crack a decent share of passwords, given enough dwell time and contextual information from a compromised environment.
Amongst those frameworks, Sliver appeared in 2019 as an open-source framework available on Github and advertised to security professionals. Sliver supports several different network protocols to communicate between the implant and its C2 server: DNS, HTTP/TLS, MTLS, and TCP might be used.
Targeted attacks on Twilio and Cloudflare employees are tied to a massive phishing campaign that resulted in 9,931 accounts at over 130 organizations being compromised. Roberto Martinez, senior threat intelligence analyst at Group-IB, said the scope of the attacks is still an unknown.
While digital acceleration and work-from-anywhere strategies may have been driven by the uncertain times brought about by the global pandemic, they remain essential for any organization competing in today's digital marketplace. That network transformation has also expanded the attack surface organizations need to protect, much of it in new, vulnerable edges.
Acronis researchers have concluded that ransomware continues to be the number one threat to large and medium-sized businesses, including government organizations. Nearly one percent of all emails contain malicious links or files, and more than one-quarter of all emails were delivered to the users inbox and then were removed by Acronis email security.
Abnormal Security released a report which explores the current email threat landscape. This Help Net Security video provides insight into the latest advanced email attack trends.
In this Help Net Security video, Kevin Holvoet, Cyber Threat Intelligence Instructor, SANS Institute, discusses ransomware and Ransomware as a Service (Raas) attacks, and illustrates how...