Blog Posts Tagged with "spear-phishing"
How to Protect SMBs Against Phishing Attacks via Social Engineering
November 06, 2018 Added by:Timur Kovalev
Attackers are constantly changing tactics, so ensuring that you are armed against the latest threats is critical.
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Artificial Intelligence: A New Hope to Stop Multi-Stage Spear-Phishing Attacks
November 07, 2017 Added by:Asaf Cidon
Artificial intelligence to stop spear phishing sounds futuristic and out of reach, but it’s in the market today and attainable for businesses of all sizes, because every business is a potential target.
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Beyond Phishing: What You Need to Know About Whaling
June 13, 2016 Added by:Dan Lohrmann
Just when you thought you had seen it all regarding online phishing scams, along comes a new round of deceptive emails, phones calls, instant messages and even traditional printouts from your fax machine.
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Chinese cyber attack against the White House
October 02, 2012 Added by:Plagiarist Paganini
The news is circulating on the internet creating great concern once again that Chinese hackers have hit the infrastructure of a foreign state, and once again we are speaking of cyber espionage, but this time they were able to access the White House Military Office...
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FireEye Advanced Threat Report: The Inadequacy of Defenses
September 12, 2012 Added by:Plagiarist Paganini
The security firm FireEye has released an interesting report that provides an overview of the current threat landscape, evolving malware, advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics, and the level of infiltration seen in organizations’ networks today. The report presents an alarming scenario ...
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Cyberheists: Biggest Threat Facing American Businesses
August 28, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
It is no myth that there is plenty of money and digital assets on networks worldwide. Those that want to secure those assets need to safeguard them. This book is written specifically for smaller to medium size businesses that often lack the staff and budget necessary to ensure effective information security...
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Mahdi Trojan Employed in Middle Eastern Cyber Espionage
July 18, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"It is still unclear whether this is a state-sponsored attack or not. The targeted organizations seem to be spread between members of the attacking group by giving each victim machine a specific prefix name, meaning that this operation might require a large investment and financial backing..."
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Harvesting Credentials with the Social Engineering Toolkit
July 09, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
The Social Engineering Toolkit included with Backtrack 5 is a great way for penetration testers to see how well their network and users would stand up to Social Engineering attacks. In this tutorial I will demonstrate how SET can be used to set up a realistic looking website to harvest e-mail usernames and passwords...
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Google's Worst Security Idea Ever
June 06, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
Google announced that it will notify a subset of its Gmail customers if they're the victim of a State-sponsored attack. Google's advice is FUD-inducing for people who aren't targets and insufficient for those who are. I have to wonder what Google was thinking when it created this awful program...
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US Gas Pipeline Companies Under Major Cyber Attack
May 07, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Analysis of the malware and artifacts associated with these cyber attacks has positively identified this activity as related to a single campaign from a single source. It goes on to broadly describe a sophisticated 'spear-phishing' campaign..."
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Nine Tips for CSOs to Get a Fresh Start this Spring
April 13, 2012 Added by:Jason Clark
With everything in the threat landscape changing so frequently, it’s important to reassess your current status and plan for the coming year, whenever we can come up for air. So, I came up with the following nine tips to help you get a fresh start this spring...
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Disclosures: How Much Sharing is Too Much?
February 15, 2012 Added by:Jack Daniel
What is the point of telling you I was compromised by spear phishing, SQL injection, cross site scripting, cross site request forgery, default credentials, or anything else we’ve know about for years? If you are ignoring all of the well-known risks, it is a waste of time...
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MSUpdater Trojan Smuggles Data as Windows Update Traffic
February 01, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"We don't have information about the people behind those attacks, however as all of them are targeting government-related organizations, it is highly reasonable to suspect that the attackers are high profile, maybe even a country..."
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Symantec: Chinese Connection to Attacks on Defense Contractors
January 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The data Symantec published reinforces evidence from an earlier investigation conducted by AlienVault, which described an orchestrated sprear-phishing campaign most likely targeting information on US drone technology which utilized malware-infected PDF documents to deliver the Sykipot payload...
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Federal Agencies Tap Online Trust Alliance for Training
November 17, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“Authentication is the front line defense... This program, supported by the White House, will help stem the tide of malicious and deceptive email. This is a great example of the public and private sector working together to increase end-to-end trust of our nation’s critical infrastructure..."
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Steam Attack Puts Users at Risk of Spear Phishing
November 15, 2011 Added by:Josh Shaul
A good implementation of salting before hashing can yield very secure results – however weak implementations that used fixed salt are not all that unusual, and those are quite easy to break. The stored credit card numbers were encrypted. It’s likely that these will be difficult to extract...
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