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November 10, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Twitter Hack Only Took 24 Hours from Start to Takeover

A report from the New York Department of Financial Services covering the high-profile Twitter account hack from earlier in the year reveals how little time an attack takes to be ...

November 10, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

BEC Incidents Intent on Invoice or Payment Fraud Increase 155% Across All Industries

Business Email Compromise appears to be back in the saddle again, as attackers use simple social engineering and domain impersonation to trick victims into paying up.

November 10, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Ryuk Ransomware Takes a Single Victim for $34 Million in Ransom

A new report from Security Researcher Vitali Kremez puts the spotlight on exactly how the group behind Ryuk ransomware is successful in infecting and obtaining payment from its victims.

November 10, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Threat Actors Use Fake Sites for Espionage

Researchers at Volexity report that the Vietnamese threat actor OceanLotus has been using phony news and bogus activist websites to track users, or to trick them into downloading malware. ...

November 9, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Fake Microsoft Teams Updates to Infect Systems

According to Bleeping Computer, ransomware operators are using malicious fake ads for Microsoft Teams updates to infect systems. The infection would deploy Cobalt Strike to compromise the ...

November 9, 2020 Roger Grimes

The Most Common Password Frustrations

We all know the well-worn adage to make our passwords long and complex. Sometimes trying to do so can be completely frustrating.

November 9, 2020 Javvad Malik

Cyber Security Awareness Month is Over... Now What?

October was Cyber Security Awareness Month, the month during which many organisations and individuals contributed their ideas, shared content and helped educate each other on the ...

November 9, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Malicious Macros Remain Highly Effective

Microsoft Office documents with malicious macros are still one of the top choices for attackers of all skill levels, according to Craig Williams from Cisco Talos. On the CyberWire’s ...

November 5, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercriminals Target Brazilian Government in a Ransomware Attack

The bad guys managed to fully encrypt Brazil's Superior Court of Justice (SCJ), Ministry of Health, and Government of the DF this week. Technicians from SCJ discovered that there was a ...

November 5, 2020 Roger Grimes

6 Lessons I Learned from Hacking 130 MFA Solutions

I was fortunate enough to write Wiley’s Hacking Multifactor Authentication. It’s nearly 600-pages dedicated to showing attacks against various multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions ...

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