How well do you really know your environment, your security practices and policies? Do you know the tools, techniques, and procedures that cyberattackers use to exploit your vulnerabilities?
Join Cisco Umbrella cybersecurity expert Ryan Poppa exposes the inner workings of a crafty cyberattack.
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Any and every one is a target for nation-state grade cyber attacks, especially during a global crisis. During times of crisis there is a shift in focus which allows cyber-attacks to grow and intensify, and a large portion of them are nation-state grade. The private sector, all verticals and industries, have always...
A fresh round of phishing attacks is relying on using trusted services and a well-designed social engineering scheme to trick users into enabling malware to bypass an end point's security protocols, says Aaron Higbee of the security firm Cofense.
The Emotet botnet, which recently surged back to life after a months-long hiatus, is now delivering the Qbot banking Trojan to victims' devices, security researchers say. So far, they've identified about 800,000 malicious emails attempting to spread the botnet.
A 21-year-old Cypriot man, who is accused of hacking into websites and stealing personal data to extort his victims, has been extradited to the U.S. to face charges of wire fraud and computer hacking.
Companies can use data analytics and artificial intelligence to help mitigate the risk of collusion between their employees and vendors, says Amine Antari, managing director at the consultancy Kroll.
Following Twitter's admission that cryptocurrency scammers socially engineered its employees to gain control of 45 high-profile accounts, one reaction has been: Why didn't anyone crack Twitter sooner? Unfortunately, the answer is that they have, especially if you count nation-states bribing insiders.
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two Chinese nationals with hacking into the systems of hundreds of organizations in the U.S. and abroad. The suspects' activities allegedly included probing for vulnerabilities in systems at companies developing COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and testing tech.
The British government was underprepared for Russia's alleged attempts to influence the outcomes of the Brexit referendum in 2016 and the 2017 general election and failed to conduct adequate investigations, according to a report by the U.K. Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and two other Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the FBI this week requesting a classified briefing on a "concerted foreign interference campaign" targeting lawmakers ahead of the November election.
This on-demand discussion with experts from ESG, Microsoft, and vArmour explores the latest hybrid cloud security challenges keeping your peers up at night, along with effective strategies for reducing risk across complex, hybrid environments.
In today's digital-first world, businesses subject to KYC requirements must find a way to create onboarding and authentication processes that achieve compliance and inhibit fraud, without alienating good customers. Time and again, research shows that overly cumbersome and time consuming processes turn good customers...
The number of new in-branch account openings was already on a sharp decline before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the shift to digital onboarding is full-bore.
For banks, it's not enough to simply try to clone the in-branch experience and "move it online." Instead, banks must consider how technology can optimize and...
Twitter says attackers who hijacked more than 130 high-profile Twitter accounts used social engineering to bypass its defenses, including two-factor authentication on accounts. Experts say companies must have defenses in place against such schemes, which have long been employed by fraudsters.
A group of spoofed cryptocurrency trading apps is targeting devices running macOS to install malware called Gmera, security firm ESET reports. The malware can steal users' data as well as their cryptocurrency wallets.
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