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"Infostealer Malware Threat Grows as MFA Fatigue Attacks Spread"According to research conducted by the Cyber Threat Intelligence team at Accenture, infostealer malware grew in underground criminal networks in 2022, while multi-factor authentication (MFA) fatigue attacks increased. Infostealers are malicious software…
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"2023 Workforce Predictions: Lack of Talent Will Haunt Firms as Leadership Comes Under Scrutiny"The skills gap in cybersecurity that has plagued the security community for several years will not close soon. Eighty percent of firms suffered at least one data breach in the past year due to a lack of cybersecurity talent or awareness, according to…
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"Nearly 50% Of Phishing Attacks in 2021 Aimed at Government Employees Were Attempted Credential Theft"Lookout's 2022 Government Threat Report shows that mobile phishing and device vulnerability risk is rising among US government agencies. In 2021, nearly half of all phishing attacks against government personnel would target employee credentials, up from…
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"Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Organizations on the Rise"From 2016 to 2021, ransomware attacks on healthcare delivery organizations increased, exposing the Protected Health Information (PHI) of roughly 42 million patients, according to a report published online by JAMA Health Forum on December 29. Hannah T.…
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"Data Breaches Could be Even More Expensive in 2023"Security researchers at Acronis have claimed that data breaches could be even more expensive next year. The researchers collected data from more than 750,000 unique endpoints, distributed worldwide, and now estimate that the average cost of a data…
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"The Password Isn't Dead Yet. You Need a Hardware Key"Earlier this year, Cloudflare was one of hundreds of targets in a criminal phishing campaign that successfully breached a number of technology organizations. While some Cloudflare employees fell for the phishing emails, the attackers were unable to…
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"Code-Generating AI Can Introduce Security Vulnerabilities, Study Finds"According to a new study, software developers that employ code-generating Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are more likely to introduce security flaws into the applications they write. The report from Stanford University-affiliated researchers…
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"What Is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Fatigue and How Do You Defend Against Attacks?"Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a commonly employed security approach that requires the usage of two or more distinct authentication factors to verify the user's identity. Inadvertently, as MFA has become more prevalent in the commercial world, it…
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"Adobe, Apple, Cisco, Microsoft Flaws Make Up Half of KEV Catalog"In November 2021, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog to help federal agencies and critical infrastructure organizations identify and remediate vulnerabilities that are…
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"Linux Backdoor Malware Infects WordPress-Based Websites"The Information Technology (IT) security solutions vendor Dr. Web has identified Linux malware that compromises WordPress-based websites. It exploits 30 flaws in various plugins and themes for this platform. If websites use outdated versions of such add-…
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"Ireland to Examine Twitter Data Breach That May Affect 400M+ Users"Ireland's privacy regulator has declared that it will investigate a recently discovered data leak that could affect over 400 million Twitter users. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) is already probing the company for an earlier data breach. In the…
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"Netgear Fixes a Severe Bug in Its Routers"Multiple Wi-Fi router models, including Wireless AC Nighthawk, Wireless AX Nighthawk (Wi-Fi 6), and Wireless AC router models, were affected by a flaw that Netgear has now addressed. The company stated that the vulnerability is a pre-authentication…