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Cybercriminals capitalizing on our reliance on the cloud
90% of cyberattacks on cloud environments in the last 12 months involved compromised privileged credentials, according to a research from Centrify. Most cloud environments …

New phishing campaign targets taxpayer credentials
A new phishing campaign is targeting U.S. taxpayers with documents that purport to contain tax-related content, but ultimately deliver NetWire and Remcos malware – two …

Credential exposure trends: You need a better password
SpyCloud researchers recovered more than 4.6 billion pieces of personally identifiable information and nearly 1.5 billion stolen account credentials from 854 breach sources in …

Rampant password reuse puts companies and customers at risk
25.9 million business account credentials and over 543 million breach assets tied to employees in the Fortune 1000 are readily available on the criminal underground, SpyCloud …

Credential spill incidents nearly doubled since 2016
The number of annual credential spill incidents nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020, according to F5 research. There was a 46% downturn in the number of spilled credentials …

Retail and hospitality sector fixing software flaws at a faster rate than others
The retail and hospitality sector is fixing software flaws at a faster rate than five other sectors, a Veracode analysis of more than 130,000 applications reveals. The ability …

2020 set the stage for cybersecurity priorities in 2021
It’s safe to assume that pretty much everyone is ready to move on from 2020. Between the COVID-19 pandemic, political battles, and social unrest, this has been a stressful …

Explosion in digital commerce pushed fraud incentive levels sky-high
A rise in consumer digital traffic has corresponded with a rise in fraud attacks, Arkose Labs reveals. As the year progresses and more people than ever are online, …

Healthcare organizations are sitting ducks for attacks and breaches
Seventy-three percent of health system, hospital and physician organizations report their infrastructures are unprepared to respond to attacks. The survey results estimated …

Researchers discover POS backdoor targeting the hospitality industry
ESET researchers have discovered ModPipe, a modular backdoor that gives its operators access to sensitive information stored in devices running ORACLE MICROS Restaurant …

Fraudsters increasingly creative with names and addresses for phishing sites
COVID-19 continues to significantly embolden cybercriminals’ phishing and fraud efforts, according to research from F5 Labs. The report found that phishing incidents rose 220% …

63 billion credential stuffing attacks hit retail, hospitality, travel industries
Akamai published a report detailing criminal activity targeting the retail, travel, and hospitality industries with attacks of all types and sizes between July 2018 and June …
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