Key Findings In Q3 2021, the financial sector was the most targeted seeing 22% of ransomware and 37% of APT detections Publicly reported cyber incidents in the financial sector increased 21% compared to Q2 2021 Nearly half of APT activity monitored appears to originate from Russian and Chinese backed groups Cobalt Strike attack suite abused […]
Excel is now a little safer for organizations to use as Microsoft is making a once optional setting that disables the usage of Excel 4.0 macros the default. According to a Tech Community blog, the setting—which was rolled out as an optional setting in July 2021—is now the default when users open Excel 4.0 macros. […]
Worldwide 3-D Secure transaction volume accelerates further, increasing 50% year-over-year BEDFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Please replace the graphic with the accompanying corrected graphic. The release reads: NEW OUTSEER FRAUD & PAYMENTS REPORT SHOWS GIANT INCREASE IN BRAND ABUSE CYBER ATTACKS, JUMPING 274% YEAR-OVER-YEAR Worldwide 3-D Secure transaction volume accelerates further, increasing 50% year-over-year Outseer, the leader in […]
It’s no secret that most major enterprises across the globe use Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for identity and access management. This ubiquity is also one of the predominant reasons AD is such a popular and attractive target for adversaries. What remains a mystery to many enterprises, however, is how adversaries – including the malicious actors […]
Many organizations that have valuable data or even come close to touching sectors of the U.S. government are likely fending off cyberattacks from nation-state countries, with Russia among the top such threats. Now, due to increasing tensions between Russia, Ukraine and western countries, IT and cybersecurity professionals should be on the lookout for sophisticated threat […]
A new report from Cisco Talos, the IT vendor’s security research team, details how hackers are increasingly using public cloud services like Azure and AWS that eliminates the need to host their own infrastructure. Specifically, researchers narrowed in on a fall 2021 campaign that utilized variants of known remote access trojans that were deployed and […]
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#Bitcoin–X-Meta, the brand-new crypto exchange powered by Binance Cloud which launched on 30th December 2021, will provide customers around the globe with an easy-to-use and highly secure crypto trading exchange service, offering a host of powerful and unique features. The exchange was developed as the main foundation of the Inflation Hedging Coin (IHC) […]
Threat actors are leveraging the comment feature in Google Docs and other Google collaboration tools to send malicious content, primarily to Outlook users. According to new research from cybersecurity firm Avanan, hackers have found a way to use these useful collaboration tools from Google to target Outlook users, hitting over 500 inboxes across 30 tenants, […]
The first Microsoft Pluton-powered PCs will become available later this year with Windows 11 as Lenovo and AMD announced during CES 2022 a new ThinkPad Z series laptops powered by AMD’s Ryzen-6000 Series processors which will integrate the Microsoft Pluton security processor. The Microsoft Pluton is a security processor first pioneered in Xbox and Azure […]
As IT professionals, your job is to help non-IT folks use technology to help them do their jobs and run an organization. However, most of those non-IT end users haven’t had the technical education and training you probably had—not to mention the many technology certifications you have added to your resume. That can create a […]
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