Evolving social engineering campaigns - including a significant rise in vishing attacks - continue to pose significant data security threats to healthcare and public sector entities, federal authorities warn, urging entities to take steps to avoid falling victim.
Expel is out with its latest quarterly threat report, which reveals that Identity-based attacks now account for 56% of incidents identified by Expel's SOC. Jon Hencinski shares highlights from the report and how to respond to BEC, ransomware and attackers who have found ways to defeat MFA.
Hackers looted Bitcoin ATMs of $16,000 in an attack manufacturer General Bytes says stems from a zero day vulnerability accidently introduced in 2020. An executive with the Czech company suggest attackers may have been motivated out of vengeance for its pro-Ukraine stance.
In the tit-for-tat world of advanced persistent threats, security measures set by Microsoft such as multifactor authentication are being met by Russian hacking group APT29 with circumvention techniques. Mandiant says it's seeing several new hacking methods by the group, also known as Cozy Bear.
Beleaguered spyware vendor NSO Group is attempting to reboot its corporate image by pledging to only sell its wares to NATO member countries, lay off 10% of its workforce and replace its CEO, as it seeks a buyer. But the company, which remains blacklisted by the U.S., faces an uphill battle.
Domain name registrars track domain name owners via "whois" data, which is a crucial tool for investigators combating cybercrime. But Kroll's Alan Brill says that since the EU General Data Protection Regulation went into effect, many registrars no longer publicly share such information, and that's a problem.
Implementation of security service edge technology has progressed over the past six months from early adopters to mainstream organizations, with requests for proposals around SSE projects now carrying tight deadlines rather than no deadline at all, says iboss co-founder and CEO Paul Martini.
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Researchers uncovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting automotive and chemical manufacturers across the Spanish-speaking nations of Mexico and Spain. The latest campaign began in June 2022, uses Grandoreiro banking Trojan and impersonates Mexican government officials, Zscaler ThreatLabz reports.
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Threat actors are using Amazon Web Services solutions to create phishing pages that bypass security scanners and scam victims into handing over credentials. Avanan researchers call the method of using legitimate services as a piggyback to land in the inbox "the Static Expressway."
Google detected and stopped one of the largest distributed denial-of-service incidents yet in a likely sighting of the Mēris botnet. Google is not releasing the identity of the victim, whose web servers faced 46 million https requests per second in the attack, which lasted for more than an hour.
The Identity Theft Resource Center's new report shows a 1,044% increase in social media account hijacking. Banking fraud is also rising, with scammers focusing on using stolen personal data to open new banking and credit card accounts in victims' names, says COO James Lee.
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