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2024 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Cyber Threats to the Retail Sector

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2024 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Cyber Threats to the Retail Sector 2024-10-29 at 15:17 By As the holiday shopping season approaches, the 2024 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Retail Sector reveals that cybercriminals have sharpened their tactics, utilizing ransomware and phishing attacks that exploit well-known online brands to target retailers and consumers directly. This article is an […]

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Hooked by the Call: A Deep Dive into The Tricks Used in Callback Phishing Emails

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Hooked by the Call: A Deep Dive into The Tricks Used in Callback Phishing Emails 2024-10-21 at 17:33 By Katrina Udquin Introduction Previously, Trustwave SpiderLabs covered a massive fake order spam scheme that impersonated a tech support company and propagated via Google Groups. Since then, we have observed more spam campaigns using this hybrid form of cyberattack

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Combating Misinformation and Cyber Threats to Secure the 2024 US Election

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Combating Misinformation and Cyber Threats to Secure the 2024 US Election 2024-10-15 at 16:01 By Karl Sigler As we near the 2024 election, safeguarding the integrity of our democratic process is of paramount importance. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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Strengthening Email Security: DOJ Disrupts Russian Spear-Phishing Campaign

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Strengthening Email Security: DOJ Disrupts Russian Spear-Phishing Campaign 2024-10-09 at 16:02 By The need for an iron-clad email security solution is once again making headlines. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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Protecting the US Election by Adopting Basic Cybersecurity Protocols

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Protecting the US Election by Adopting Basic Cybersecurity Protocols 2024-10-04 at 18:31 By In a joint advisory issued on September 18, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reported that Iranian actors have increased their activity attempting to influence the 2024

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Critical Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited One Day After PoC Release

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Critical Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited One Day After PoC Release 2024-10-02 at 13:31 By Ionut Arghire A critical-severity vulnerability in Zimbra has been exploited in the wild to deploy a web shell on vulnerable servers. The post Critical Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited One Day After PoC Release appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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Trustwave Adds a Twist to Cybersecurity Awareness Month: More Security!

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Trustwave Adds a Twist to Cybersecurity Awareness Month: More Security! 2024-09-30 at 16:01 By October 1 marks the start of Cybersecurity Awareness Month and traditionally Trustwave has discussed the general security concepts highlighted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCSA). However, this year Trustwave will take a slightly different approach. In the same

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2024 Election Threats: Misinformation, Deepfakes, and Cybersecurity

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2024 Election Threats: Misinformation, Deepfakes, and Cybersecurity 2024-09-27 at 16:01 By Karl Sigler As the intensity of a critical election year builds, the greatest threat isn’t necessarily the security of ballot machines. Instead, it lies in misinformation, amplified by social media, biased algorithms, and the spread of fake news. During the 2020 U.S. presidential election,

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Shedding Light on Election Deepfakes

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Shedding Light on Election Deepfakes 2024-09-25 at 16:01 By Pauline Bolaños Contrary to popular belief, deepfakes — AI-crafted audio files, images, or videos that depict events and statements that never occurred; a portmanteau of “deep learning” and “fake” — are not all intrinsically malicious. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source React to

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HTML Smuggling: How Blob URLs are Abused to Deliver Phishing Content

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HTML Smuggling: How Blob URLs are Abused to Deliver Phishing Content 2024-09-24 at 16:01 By Mike Casayuran HTML smuggling techniques have been around for quite some time. A previous Trustwave SpiderLabs’ blog discussed its use in distributing malware by storing binaries in immutable blob data within JavaScript code that gets decoded on the client-side browser, eventually delivering

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Why Do Criminals Love Phishing-as-a-Service Platforms?

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Why Do Criminals Love Phishing-as-a-Service Platforms? 2024-09-23 at 13:01 By Rodel Mendrez Phishing-as-a-Service (PaaS) platforms have become the go-to tool for cybercriminals, to launch sophisticated phishing campaigns targeting the general public and businesses, especially in the financial services sector. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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ALPHV BlackCat Ransomware: A Technical Deep Dive and Mitigation Strategies

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ALPHV BlackCat Ransomware: A Technical Deep Dive and Mitigation Strategies 2024-09-17 at 16:01 By ALPHV, also known as BlackCat or Noberus, is a sophisticated ransomware group targeting critical infrastructure and various organizations, including being the most active group used to attack the financial services sector. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original

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Spam With A Political Twist: Fraudsters Are Exploiting The Election Season

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Spam With A Political Twist: Fraudsters Are Exploiting The Election Season 2024-09-17 at 16:01 By The US election is less than 70 days away and threat actors are busy crafting malicious spam that uses candidate names and political themes as social engineering tools to convince recipients to open their emails. This article is an excerpt

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EasyDMARC Lands $20M for Email Security Authentication Tech

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EasyDMARC Lands $20M for Email Security Authentication Tech 2024-09-16 at 18:46 By Ryan Naraine EasyDMARC lands venture capital funding after finding traction in the email security and authentication business. The post EasyDMARC Lands $20M for Email Security Authentication Tech appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source

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Transforming IT Security with Microsoft Defender Suite

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Transforming IT Security with Microsoft Defender Suite 2024-09-16 at 16:04 By IT teams are the unsung heroes of today’s fast-paced digital world, tirelessly toiling behind the scenes to keep data safe and systems running smoothly. One tool that’s presented a major shift for many IT departments is the Microsoft Defender Suite. Let’s explore how this powerful

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How Phishing-as-a-Service Exposes Financial Services to Extensive Threats

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How Phishing-as-a-Service Exposes Financial Services to Extensive Threats 2024-09-12 at 16:01 By Phishing remains the favored and most successful method of obtaining an initial foothold in a targeted organization. So it should come as no surprise that threat actors have developed turnkey solutions that enable even low-skilled hackers to conduct successful email attacks. This article

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Trustwave Data Reveals HTML Attachments, QR Codes, and BEC as Top Email Attack Vectors

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Trustwave Data Reveals HTML Attachments, QR Codes, and BEC as Top Email Attack Vectors 2024-08-26 at 16:01 By The Trustwave SpiderLabs team regularly collects a trove of data while protecting clients from email-based attacks. HTML attachments, malicious QR codes, and business email compromise (BEC) are the favored attack methods. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog

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The Power of Multifactor Authentication and a Strong Security Culture

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The Power of Multifactor Authentication and a Strong Security Culture 2024-08-22 at 16:01 By The business mantra “employees are our number one asset” is true for many reasons. Including helping protect an organization from cyber threats. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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Unlocking the Front Door: Phishing Emails Remain a Top Cyber Threat Despite MFA

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Unlocking the Front Door: Phishing Emails Remain a Top Cyber Threat Despite MFA 2024-08-14 at 18:16 By Kevin Townsend SecurityWeek spoke with Mike Britton, CISO at Abnormal Security, to understand what the company has learned about current social engineering and phishing attacks. The post Unlocking the Front Door: Phishing Emails Remain a Top Cyber Threat

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Microsoft 365 anti-phishing alert “erased” with one simple trick

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Microsoft 365 anti-phishing alert “erased” with one simple trick 2024-08-08 at 16:01 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers looking for a way into organizations using Microsoft 365 can make an alert identifying unsolicited (and thus potential phishing) emails “disappear”. “When an Outlook user receives an e-mail from an address they don’t typically communicate with, Outlook shows an

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