Nathan Eddy Nathan Eddy is a Berlin-based filmmaker and freelance journalist specializing in enterprise IT and security issues, health care IT and architecture.
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Lockbit Ransomware Dominant Even as Overall Attack Rates Fall
With victims from 23 countries, Lockbit continues to be the most prolific ransomware group in the early months of 2023, even as an 11% decrease in ransomware victims was reported in January. These were among the findings from GuidePoint Security’s monthly ransomware threat report, which found the total number of ... Read More
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Adaptable ‘Swiss Army Knife’ Malware a Growing Threat
There is a worrying rise in multipurpose malware, which can perform a variety of malicious actions and is adept at evasion, lateral movement and data encryption. These were among the findings of a report from Picus, a security company specializing in simulating the attacks of cybercriminal gangs, which analyzed more ... Read More
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Organizations Struggle With CCPA, CPRA, GDPR Compliance
The vast majority—92% of companies across all verticals, states and business sizes—are still unprepared for compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), while a similar percentage (91%) are unprepared for GDPR compliance. A report from Cytrio revealed these organizations are still using time-consuming ... Read More
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White House Bans TikTok on Federal Devices
Federal agencies have 30 days to remove the popular Chinese social media app TikTok from federal government devices, according to a guidance memorandum issued by the White House. The memo, written by Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young and first seen and reported on by Reuters, applies to ... Read More
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Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks Persist
Email security is often overlooked on a macro level, even as business email compromise (BEC) attacks continue to pose a critical threat to business operations. Reports from Abnormal Security and At-Bay revealed the extent of the risk—Abnormal’s report revealed the median open rate for text-based BEC attacks was nearly 28%. The ... Read More
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Multi-Cloud Strategy is Appealing, but Security Confidence Lags
The use of multi-cloud architectures continues to grow among organizations, but many businesses are not well prepared to meet the security risks that come with multi-cloud strategies. In addition, few companies have the tech talent and confidence they need to put in place a comprehensive security infrastructure across multiple clouds, ... Read More
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Threat Actors Turn to AiTM to Bypass MFA
Threat actors have started moving away from authenticating via legacy protocols to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA) in Microsoft 365, according to an Expel report on cybersecurity trends. Instead, malicious actors are adopting frameworks such as Evilginx2 to facilitate adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing attacks to steal login credentials and session cookies for ... Read More
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Cybercriminals Cause Heartbreak on Valentine’s Day
Nathan Eddy | | cybercriminals, Phishing, pig butchering, Pig Butchering Scams, Spam, valentine's day
Many people look for love or companionship online, and Valentine’s Day presents the perfect opportunity for digital crooks to take advantage of vulnerable lonely hearts. A report from Bitdefender found Valentine’s Day-themed spam has dramatically spiked in recent days, using the promise of love, discounts on merchandise and gifts from ... Read More
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Third-Party Breaches Grow More Destructive
Today’s cybersecurity landscape is riskier, costlier and more complicated than ever before, with bad actors capitalizing on global disruption and vulnerability with destructive third-party breaches, allowing them to compromise multiple victims in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, according to a Black Kite report, the magnitude of the problem is growing worse, ... Read More
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Third-Party Breaches Impact Vast Majority of Organizations
Third-party breaches are extremely common and impact the vast majority of organizations, suggesting an attack surface spans beyond just the technology that an organization owns or controls. These were among the chief findings of a SecurityScorecard report which revealed that 98.3% of organizations have a relationship with at least one third ... Read More
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