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Colonial Pipeline facing $1,000,000 fine for poor recovery plans

Many remember Colonial Pipeline #ransomware attack from last year. They paid attackers 4.4 M$ in bitcoin, but were unable to recover much of data. ⚠️ Now Colonial is also fined 1M$ for poor continuity planning. Read for more RaaS info >>

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13.5.2022

Phishing Scam Nets $23.5 Million From DoD, California Man Arrested Siphoning Money From Contractors

🦹 Mies hyökkäsi DoD:hen #phishing'huijauksella ja varasti 23 M$. Toimittajan työntekijänä hän tunsi maksujärjestelmän. Väärennettyjen sähköpostien ja lookalike URLien avulla hän varasti kirjautumistunnuksia ja ohjasi maksuja 💸 itselleen.

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13.5.2022

Phishing Scam Nets $23.5 Million From DoD, California Man Arrested Siphoning Money From Contractors

🦹 Man hit DoD with #phishing, stealing 23 M$ before caught. As jet fuel supplier employee, he knew the vendor payment system. Using fake GSA-emails and lookalike URLs, he stole vendor login creds and routed payments 💸 to shell company.

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13.5.2022

Password reuse is rampant among Fortune 1000 employees

Study of key sector employee cyber hygiene: 🔓 64% password reuse 📈 Spike in #malware infected devices 🙅 Extensive easy-to-guess pw's These are risks for employers and consumers, who rely on these businesses to safeguard their data.

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13.5.2022

Common LinkedIn scams: Beware of phishing attacks and fake job offers

Scammers often attack us when we're at our most vulnerable. LinkedIn is often perceived safe, but fraud there is soaring. Beware of these scams: 📧 Fake notifications for #phishing 💼 Bogus job offers 💰 Crypto investment offers

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13.5.2022

'A tragedy': Closure of 150-year-old college underscores toll of ransomware attacks

🏫 Lincoln College closes its doors Friday, becoming the 1st US higher edu institute to shut down partly due to #ransomware. Goodbye note on website said it survived both WW's and the Great Depression, but not Covid & severe cyberattack.

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13.5.2022

Mozilla: Lack of Security Protections in Mental-Health Apps Is ‘Creepy’

Mental-health apps can have good intentions, but harm users by exposing intimate data due to severe lack #privacy safeguards. Mozilla's team used avg. 8h's to investigate 32 apps each: 88% got slapped with a "Privacy Not Included" -label.

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6.5.2022

Deepfakes Are a Growing Threat to Cybersecurity and Society: Europol

Europol warns of deepfakes as #cybercrime's next big weapon for creating better scams. Deepfake tech uses AI techniques to alter existing or create new audio or video content. ⚠️ Study in 2019 showed 72% of people being unaware of them.

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6.5.2022

What’s behind the record‑high number of zero days?

Multiple research teams observed big growth in reported zero-days in 2021. Possible reasons are: ☁️ Move toward cloud hosting, mobile and IoT tech 🦹 Expanding exploit broker marketplace 🖥️ Better detection capabilities #cybersecurity

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6.5.2022