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Enterprises Pay $1,200 Per Employee Annually to Fight Cyberattacks Against Cloud Collab Apps

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Enterprises are spending nearly $1,200 a year per employee to address the risk that cloud-based workforce collaboration apps bring to their business. It's a well-known reality at this point that with...
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DraftKings Account Takeovers Frame Sports-Betting Cybersecurity Dilemma

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The popular online betting platform DraftKings has been targeted by credential-stuffing attacks — allowing cyberthieves to make off with around $300,000 in ill-gotten funds so far.One of its rivals,...
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Google Releases YARA Rules to Disrupt Cobalt Strike Abuse

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Cobalt Strike, a popular red-team tool for detecting software vulnerabilities, has been repurposed by cyberattackers so frequently that publisher Fortra instituted a system for vetting potential buyers. In response,...
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Luna Moth’s Novel, Malware-Free Extortion Campaign Takes Flight

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Researchers have spotted a threat actor that has managed to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last few months from mostly small and midsize businesses — without...
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Name That Toon: Fall Cleanup

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Hardhats, not caps, may be the better headgear of choice if the trees are shedding electronic devices. What's going on in the caption above? Come up with a cybersecurity-related caption...
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Australia’s Hack-Back Plan Against Cyberattackers Raises Familiar Concerns

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The Australian government's defiant proclamation recently that it would hack back against hackers that sought to target organizations in the country represents a break from the usual cautious manner...
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DEV-0569 Ransomware Group Remarkably Innovative, Microsoft Cautions

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It generally starts with malvertising and ends with the deployment of Royal ransomware, but a new threat group has distinguished itself by its ability to innovate the malicious steps...
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Instagram Impersonators Target Thousands, Slipping by Microsoft’s Cybersecurity

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Cyberattackers have targeted students at national educational institutions in the US with a sophisticated phishing campaign that impersonated Instagram. The unusual aspect of the gambit is that they used a...
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MITRE Engenuity Launches Evaluations for Security Service Providers

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A new set of evaluations for managed security service providers that MITRE Engenuity has released can potentially give enterprise decision-makers a handy resource to consult when selecting a provider....