Tag: cyber attack
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CISA Reports Spearphishing Attack Leading to Ransomware Impacting Pipeline Operations
February 18: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages asset owner operators across all critical infrastructure sectors to review the below threat actor techniques and ensure the corresponding mitigations […]
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Israeli Military Claim Hamas Hackers Tried to Seduce Soldiers Via Social Media To Spread Malware
February 16: The Israeli military on Sunday said it has thwarted an attempt by the Hamas militant group to hack soldiers’ phones by posing as young, attractive women on social […]
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US Emphasizes Concern Over Electronic Interference
February 14: Donald Trump has this week directed the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon, and the Commerce Department to minimise the amount of US systems dependent on GPS for […]
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Emotet Trojan Evolves To Spread Via WiFi Connections
Source: ZDNet / Catalin Cimpanu February 11: Without a doubt, the Emotet trojan is today’s top malware threat, in both terms of quantity (due to its huge spam campaigns) and […]
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FTC Warns of Ongoing Scams Using Coronavirus Bait
Source: Bleeping Computer / Sergiu Gatlan February 11: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns about ongoing scam campaigns that make use of the current Coronavirus global scale health crisis […]
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Mac Malware Increasing Rapidly
Source: ZDNet / Danny Palmer February 11: […] Researchers at cybersecurity company Malwarebytes analysed a year of data on cyber attacks targeting its customers and found that malware attacks and other malicious […]
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The Top Ten Software Flaws Used By Cyber Criminals
Source: ZDNet / Danny Palmer February 04: Over half of the most common security vulnerabilities exploited by criminals to conduct cyber attacks and distribute malware are more than a year old, and […]
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London Offshore Consultants Suffer Maze Ransomware Attack
December 30: UK marine engineering consultancy London Offshore Consultants (LOC) Group has been hacked by a group known as Maze. The company, with more than 400 employees, saw its computers […]
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Cybercrime Trends Include Mobile Banking Malware Up 50% in First Half of 2019
January 17: A new report from Check Point recaps the cybercrime trends, statistics, and vulnerabilities that defined the security landscape in 2019. In the last year, 28% of organizations were […]
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US CISA Alert: Potential for Iranian Cyber Response to U.S. Military Strike in Baghdad
January 06: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued Alert (AA20-006A) Potential for Iranian Cyber Response to U.S. Military Strike in Baghdad. The summary is herein included. […]
