Credential harvesting campaigns target governments and cybersecurity companies

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Threat analysts at Cyjax have uncovered multiple mass credential harvesting campaigns that have recently been targeting cybersecurity companies, government entities, and organisations in a range of other sectors. Reverse engineering these campaigns revealed the attacker’s infrastructure and stolen data store. Throughout July and August 2020, we detected two separate credential harvesting campaigns targeting accounts for …

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2020 Mid-Year CISO Report

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Introduction It is imperative to understand the threats and vulnerabilities facing one’s organisation to mitigate the associated risk of a cyberattack. We are regularly asked to define the biggest cybersecurity challenges. Inevitably, they are the same: vulnerability management to reduce the attack surface; phishing attacks (which still account for over 90% of initial compromise and …

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Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 1 June 2020

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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update The UK’s fraud and cybercrime reporting site, Actionfraud, has released figures stating that so far 2,057 victims have lost a combined total of over £4.6 million to coronavirus-related scams. Different types of scams have been used to steal money from users, including, courier fraud, online shopping and auction fraud, computer software service …

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Winning with Cyber Threat Intelligence: Taking a More Personal View

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In the final article of our trilogy (see the previous articles here and here), we investigate how a cyber threat intelligence (CTI) analyst and programmes associated with this specialism, provide insight about physical and cyber threats to your organisation. The value of these insights is reflected in the ‘wins’, which come as a result of …

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Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 18 May 2020

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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update The Financial Times reports that Chinese threat actors are targeting coronavirus research in the United States. This comes at a time of escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing over the pandemic. The FBI and CISA are investigating the “targeting and compromise” of US research groups by China and its affiliates and warned …

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Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 27 April 2020

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COVID-19 cybersecurity update In the face of the continuing coronavirus pandemic, individual cybercriminals and groups have re-geared their operations to use coronavirus lures. Recent research revealed a 148 per cent month-on-month increase in ransomware attacks from February to March, alongside a spike in attacks on financial institutions. Over a dozen state-sponsored threat groups have been …

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