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Managing cyberattack fallout: Financial and operational damage

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Managing cyberattack fallout: Financial and operational damage 2024-07-12 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security, Ashley Harrington, Director of Cybersecurity at Aspida, discusses the impact of cyberattack on business operations and financial health. Beyond immediate disruptions and financial burdens, cyber incident can severely damage a company’s reputation among customers and partners. Can […]

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Using Authy? Beware of impending phishing attempts

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Using Authy? Beware of impending phishing attempts 2024-07-11 at 15:46 By Zeljka Zorz Do you use Authy for your multi-factor authentication needs? If you do, you should keep an eye out for phishing attempts, as well as implement defenses against SIM swapping attacks. What happened? On July 1, Twilio – the company that develops the

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How AI helps decode cybercriminal strategies

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How AI helps decode cybercriminal strategies 2024-07-11 at 07:32 By Help Net Security With terms like “AI washing” making their way into mainstream business consciousness, the hype surrounding AI is making it harder to differentiate between the true applications and empty promises of the technology. The quest for tangible business benefits is in full swing,

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Strengthening cybersecurity preparedness with defense in depth

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Strengthening cybersecurity preparedness with defense in depth 2024-07-11 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Chaim Mazal, Chief Security Officer at Gigamon, discusses cybersecurity preparedness measures for businesses, the impact of international inconsistencies on global operations, and the board’s role in cybersecurity. What are the top cybersecurity preparedness measures that businesses

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Travel scams exposed: How to recognize and avoid them

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Travel scams exposed: How to recognize and avoid them 2024-07-11 at 06:31 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Aaron Walton, Threat Intel Analyst at Expel, discusses travel scams. For the past 18 months, the Expel SOC team has observed a campaign targeting administrative credentials for Booking.com. The attackers create phishing emails

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Valuable insights for making the right cybersecurity decisions

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Valuable insights for making the right cybersecurity decisions 2024-07-11 at 06:01 By Help Net Security This article compiles excerpts from various reports, presenting statistics and insights that could be helpful for CISOs. CISOs becoming more comfortable with risk levels Netskope | The Modern CISO: Bringing Balance | June 2024 Contradicting legacy stereotypes of the CISO

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How AI-powered software spreads Russian disinformation on X

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How AI-powered software spreads Russian disinformation on X 2024-07-10 at 18:16 By Zeljka Zorz The US Justice Department (DoJ) has seized two US-based domains used by Russian threat actors to create fake profiles on X (formerly Twitter) that would spread disinformation in the United States and abroad. This bot farm was created and operated via

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Zero-day patched by Microsoft has been exploited by attackers for over a year (CVE-2024-38112)

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Zero-day patched by Microsoft has been exploited by attackers for over a year (CVE-2024-38112) 2024-07-10 at 15:46 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2024-38112, a spoofing vulnerability in Windows MSHTML Platform for which Microsoft has released a fix on Tuesday, has likely been exploited by attackers in the wild for over a year, Check Point researcher Haifei Li

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Diversifying cyber teams to tackle complex threats

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Diversifying cyber teams to tackle complex threats 2024-07-10 at 08:01 By Help Net Security Technologies such as GenAI, ML and IoT are giving threat actors new tools that make it easier to target consumers and organizations. From Savvy Seahorse which lures victims into investment scams, to a self-replicating AI worm that uses the likes of

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How companies increase risk exposure with rushed LLM deployments

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How companies increase risk exposure with rushed LLM deployments 2024-07-10 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Jake King, Head of Threat & Security Intelligence at Elastic, discusses companies’ exposure to new security risks and vulnerabilities as they rush to deploy LLMs. King explains how LLMs pose significant risks to data

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Microsoft fixes two zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112)

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Microsoft fixes two zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) 2024-07-09 at 22:31 By Zeljka Zorz For July 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released security updates and patches that fix 142 CVEs, including two exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) in Windows Hyper-V and Windows MSHTML Platform (respectively). Zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) CVE-2024-38080 is a

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Critical vulnerability in the RADIUS protocol leaves networking equipment open to attack

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Critical vulnerability in the RADIUS protocol leaves networking equipment open to attack 2024-07-09 at 15:01 By Help Net Security A new critical security vulnerability in the RADIUS protocol, dubbed BlastRADIUS, leaves most networking equipment open to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks. While the vulnerability can be difficult to exploit, the possible impact of an exploit is substantial.

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Chinese APT40 group swifly leverages public PoC exploits

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Chinese APT40 group swifly leverages public PoC exploits 2024-07-09 at 14:46 By Zeljka Zorz Chinese state-sponsored cyber group APT40 is amazingly fast at adapting public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for vulnerabilities in widely used software, an advisory released by intelligence and cybersecurity agencies from eight countries warns. The group, which is also known as Kryptonite Panda

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Microsoft’s cybersecurity dilemma: An open letter to Satya Nadella

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Microsoft’s cybersecurity dilemma: An open letter to Satya Nadella 2024-07-09 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Microsoft is suffering cybersecurity failures due to systemic problems with strategic leadership. The world is witnessing an alarming trend of cybersecurity issues with Microsoft products and services. Over the past several years, Microsoft has suffered several serious attacks with

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Exploring the root causes of the cybersecurity skills gap

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Exploring the root causes of the cybersecurity skills gap 2024-07-09 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Koma Gandy, VP of Leadership and Business at Skillsoft, addresses the critical aspects of the cybersecurity skills gap, the need for diverse talent and continuous upskilling in areas like AI and cloud computing. Gandy

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Shadow engineering exposed: Addressing the risks of unauthorized engineering practices

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Shadow engineering exposed: Addressing the risks of unauthorized engineering practices 2024-07-09 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Shadow engineering is present in many organizations, and it can lead to security, compliance, and risk challenges. In this Help Net Security video, Darren Meyer, Staff Research Engineer at Endor Labs, discusses why it causes issues and how

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TeamViewer: Network segmentation hobbled Midnight Blizzard’s attack

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TeamViewer: Network segmentation hobbled Midnight Blizzard’s attack 2024-07-08 at 20:31 By Zeljka Zorz TeamViewer, the company developing the popular remote access/control software with the same name, has finished the investigation into the breach it detected in late June 2024, and has confirmed that it was limited to their internal corporate IT environment. “Neither our separated

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Decryptor for DoNex, Muse, DarkRace, (fake) LockBit 3.0 ransomware released

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Decryptor for DoNex, Muse, DarkRace, (fake) LockBit 3.0 ransomware released 2024-07-08 at 13:01 By Zeljka Zorz A cryptographic weakness in the DoNex ransomware and its previous incarnations – Muse, fake LockBit 3.0, and DarkRace – has allowed Avast researchers to create a decryptor for files encrypted by all those ransomware variants. DoNex ransom note (Source:

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How nation-state cyber attacks disrupt public services and undermine citizen trust

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How nation-state cyber attacks disrupt public services and undermine citizen trust 2024-07-08 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Rob Greer, VP and GM of the Enterprise Security Group at Broadcom, discusses the impact of nation-state cyber attacks on public sector services and citizens, as well as the broader implications for

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