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Cybercriminals use Azure Front Door in phishing attacks
Resecurity, Inc. (USA) has identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. The identified resources in …
48% of security practitioners seeing 3x increase in alerts per day
Panther Labs surveyed 400 active security practitioners, primarily, security analysts and security engineers, to reflect the “boots on the ground” perspective for security …
Week in review: Log4Shell exploitation, DevSecOps myths, 56 vulnerabilities impacting OT devices
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: QNAP NAS devices hit by DeadBolt and ech0raix ransomware Taiwan-based QNAP …
What stolen info can be bought off the dark web, and for how much?
Privacy Affairs researchers concluded criminals using the dark web can get a complete set of a person’s account details, enabling them to create fake IDs and forge private …
iPaaS: The latest enterprise cybersecurity risk?
iPaaS apps are vulnerable because they transport highly sensitive data from core systems, include many different third-party apps in the process, and often lack security tools …
How companies are prioritizing infosec and compliance
New research conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), examines the impact of the compliance budget on security strategy and priorities. It describes areas for …
Risky behavior reduced when executives put focus on identity security
Managing identities accessing enterprise resources has become significantly more complicated over the last several years. Between the increasing number of identities, the …
Despite known security issues, VPN usage continues to thrive
VPN usage is still prevalent among 90% of security teams who have highlighted cost, time, and difficulty as reasons to not move forward with ZTNA adoption, according to a new …
Conti effectively created an extortion-oriented IT company, says Group-IB
In slightly more than a month, the Conti ransomware collective compromised more than 40 companies worldwide, and the fastest attack took only three days, Group-IB’s noted in …
Inside a large-scale phishing campaign targeting millions of Facebook users
In this video for Help Net Security, Nick Ascoli, VP of Threat Research, PIXM, discusses a massive phishing campaign has successfully stolen an estimated five million Facebook …
Attack methods using hybrid bots enable criminals to open mule accounts at scale
During the first half of 2022, BioCatch data reveals that money mule accounts represent up to 0.3 percent of accounts held by financial institutions, and an estimated $3 …
Rate of IT security incidents grows with company size
The rate of IT security incidents increases the more Microsoft 365 security features are used, according to Hornetsecurity. Organizations using Microsoft 365 and that use 1 or …
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