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Recently, a fake Instagram email successfully bypassed Google’s email filters and made it into hundreds of employee inboxes used by a prominent US life insurance company based in New York. This was revealed in a report by Armorblox, a cybersecurity company specializing in stopping business email compromise (BEC) campaigns. According to its threat research team, …
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The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has shared their observations about a group of cybercriminals called Exotic Lily. This group has specialized itself as an initial access broker, which means they find a vulnerability in an organization’s defenses, exploit that vulnerability, and sell the access to the victim’s network to an interested party, several times …
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As war in Ukraine rages, new destructive malware continues to be discovered. In this short blog post, we will review IsaacWiper and CaddyWiper, two new wipers that do not have much in common based on their source code, but with the same intent of destroying targeted Ukrainian computer systems. IsaacWiper IsaacWiper was one of the …
In an ongoing effort to expand post-graduate opportunities for students, Miami Dade College (MDC) and University of West Florida (UWF) established a new “4+1” articulation agreement that allows MDC graduates with a bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity to seamlessly transfer to a master’s degree in cybersecurity at UWF. “We are very excited to expand our collaboration with UWF by providing …
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You didn’t really think that the ransomware wave was coming to an end, did you? You may be tempted to think so, given the decline in reports about massive ransomware campaigns. Don’t be fooled. Over the last five years, one of the primary attack vectors for ransomware attacks has been the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). …
The UK’s Online Safety Bill, a landmark piece of legislation that that aims to regulate the country’s online content, has just been introduced into Parliament after undergoing significant revisions. The bill has been in progress for about five years and its main objective is to regulate online content in the UK to make it the …
It’s been a long time coming. The worry over deepfake technology being used during times of major upheaval has been alluded to frequently over the last couple of years. The buildup to the US election was peppered by “any moment now…” style warnings of dramatic and plausible deepfake deployment. In the end, what we got …
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA), the country’s preeminent leader in one-to-one youth mentoring, has appointed Jana Brown, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Centurion Health, a leading national provider of healthcare for underserved populations, to its board. Brown brings extensive human resources and sales experience to the board. A former …
The FBI published a new FLASH alert on March 7, 2022, warning that the RagnarLocker ransomware family has compromised at least 52 organizations across 10 critical infrastructure sectors, including critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, ransomware attacks doubled in 2020, and doubled again in …
What is RagnarLocker? FBI Issues New Warning about Old Ransomware Family Read More »
