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How to improve employee phishing awareness
PRIVACY PRIVACY The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. Social engineering has long been a popular tactic among cybercriminals. Relying exclusively on information security tools does not guarantee the safety…
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Over 900,000 MikroTik Routers Exposed to Critical Bug
PRIVACY PRIVACY Attackers could covertly gain remote control of devices Read More
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Industry Coalition Calls For Enhanced Network Resilience
PRIVACY PRIVACY Alliance wants to improve visibility and patching Read More
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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?
PRIVACY PRIVACY Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort, which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking…
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Decoy Dog Malware Upgraded to Include New Features
PRIVACY PRIVACY Decoy Dog used DNS for C2 and is suspected to be employed in ongoing nation-state cyber-attacks Read More
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North Korean Cyber Group Suspected in JumpCloud Breach
PRIVACY PRIVACY Mandiant said the compromise resulted from a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign Read More
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Critical Flaws Found in Microsoft Message Queuing Service
PRIVACY PRIVACY FortiGuard Labs described the vulnerabilities in an advisory published on Monday Read More
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Scammers Follow the Rebranding of Twitter to X, to Distribute Malware
PRIVACY PRIVACY Authored by: Vallabh Chole and Yerko Grbic On July 23rd, 2023, Elon Musk announced that the social networking site, Twitter was rebranding as “X”. The news propelled Twitter and X to gain headlines and become the top trending topics on popular social media platforms. Scammers pounced on this opportunity and started renaming various…
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UK Government Report Finds Cybersecurity Skills Gap Stagnant
PRIVACY PRIVACY A new report shows that 50% of all UK businesses have a basic cyber security skills gap, and 33% have an advanced skills gap Read More
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New York Using AI to Detect Subway Fare Evasion
PRIVACY PRIVACY The details are scant—the article is based on a “heavily redacted” contract—but the New York subway authority is using an “AI system” to detect people who don’t pay the subway fare. Joana Flores, an MTA spokesperson, said the AI system doesn’t flag fare evaders to New York police, but she declined to comment…