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2020: The year of fake news
1 January 2021
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Fake news home office

2020: The year of fake news, corona-related scams and ransomware. This year the coronavirus has got a grip on both the real world and the cyber world. Other topics include home office, deep fakes, phishing attacks, mobile adware and stalkerware. Avast, a global leader in digital security and privacy solutions, looks back on some of the most recognizable cyber threats of the year. 2020 was dominated by the coronavirus that hit the whole world, including the cyber world. As Avast has found, cyber criminals took advantage of the pandemic, targeting scams and launching phishing attacks in order to ...

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New VMRay Platform 4.0
22 December 2020
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Report: Expectations vs. Reality in Third Party Risk Assessments

Fight advanced threats with precision and speed. New VMRay Platform 4.0 for malware analysis and detection, as well as protection against phishing through link detonation. VMRay, the German security specialist for automated analysis and detection of malware, offers with version 4.0 of its VMRay platform extensive new security features, in particular to protect against malicious links. The heart of VMRay is a sandboxing technology developed in Germany that is unique on the market. This acts invisibly for evasive malware and thus leverages evasive and concealment tactics by attackers. Hypervisor-based monitoring approach Many sandboxes are based on emulation or hooking and therefore require ...

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Christmas business: Cybercrime is on the rise
16 December 2020
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B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Online shops and stores have prepared for the onslaught of the high-volume pre-Christmas business. But this business is not only extremely lucrative for companies, the cloud security specialist from Hanover Hornetsecurity warns of a drastic increase in cyber crime: Phishing, DDoS attacks and ransomware are causing immense damage right now. In the past few years, customers were often affected by phishing campaigns from November to mid-December. Hornetsecurity expects a significant increase again this year. Phishing emails are mainly sent on behalf of the online giant Amazon. Unbeatable offers entice unsuspecting recipients to reveal your data….

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Employee test with phishing simulation
8 December 2020
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Spam phishing simulator

With the G DATA phishing simulation, employees can be made aware of dangerous emails. Phishing emails such as fake applications or invoices are still one of the greatest threats to IT security. Attackers consistently exploit human behavior to copy critical data or infiltrate networks. So that companies can measure the IT security status of their employees, G DATA CyberDefense is now expanding its current security awareness training to include a phishing simulation. G DATA CyberDefense is now providing a phishing simulation. With this, companies can sensitize their employees to dangerous phishing emails ...

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220% phishing attacks from COVID-19
2 December 2020
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F5 Phishing Fraud report

F5 Labs' Phishing and Fraud Report shows: COVID-19-related scams and increasingly sophisticated attacks are exacerbating global threats. Phishing attacks increase by 19 percent due to COVID-220. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to lead to significantly increased phishing and fraud attempts, as a current analysis by F5 Labs shows. According to the fourth edition of the Phishing and Fraud Report released today, phishing incidents rose 220 percent year-on-year at the height of the global pandemic. Based on the data from the Security Operations Center (SOC) from F5, the number of phishing incidents in 2020 will be ...

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4,5 million phishing attacks via Facebook
10 November 2020
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Kaspersky_news

Phishing in companies: 4,5 million registered attacks via Facebook. A Kaspersky analysis shows that social networks, messengers and external cloud services are used by both employees and cyber criminals. Current Kaspersky research shows that employees of small and medium-sized businesses most frequently access YouTube, Facebook, Google services and WhatsApp during their working hours. Some of these services are used by cyber criminals to sniff out data. Employees also access the company Popular cloud services are popular with employees as well as cyber criminals. The latter can use phishing as a gateway into the company. For example, the app ...

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FIN11 hacker group continues to phish
5 November 2020
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Fireeye News

The relatively newly discovered hacker group FIN11 specializes in ransomware and extortion. In recent months, she has increasingly targeted German and German-speaking companies. The hackers are believed to be operating out of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). “In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in aggressive ransomware attacks on businesses; Mandiant responded to nearly 2019 percent more ransomware attacks in 300 than the year before." So says Genevieve Stark, analyst at Mandiant Threat Intelligence. Hacker group FIN11 exemplifies this trend, with cybercriminals more likely to use ransomware to steal their…

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5 myths about simulated phishing messages
3 November 2020
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Phishing network awareness

Why cybersecurity awareness increases awareness of security issues and IT security in companies with fake phishing campaigns. Lucy Security Solves: The Five Biggest Myths About Simulated Phishing Messages. The benefits of cybersecurity awareness, especially phishing simulations, are currently being widely discussed. Theoretical studies are said to have found that simulated phishing campaigns are said to have a negative influence on the working atmosphere, the culture of trust and error. This is also said to have worsened the relationship of trust with corporate management. Online Study Cybersecurity Awareness 2020 In a global online study entitled "Benefits and challenges of Cybersecurity Awareness 2020" in June 2020, the Swiss company Lucy Security ...

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Phishing emails are dangerous even without a link
15 October 2020
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SophosNews

So far it was clear: an email with a strange link - hands off! But now the phishing gangsters have come up with a new trick to deceive users without any links. But even these fraud attacks can be identified and neutralized in good time with a little attention. It is the eternal “game” between security specialists and cyber crooks: who is faster, more creative and has the longer breath. True to this motto, the internet villains have come up with something new again: phishing emails without a link. Most phishing emails are built on three main components An email with ...

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Top 5 phishing attacks
September 25, 2020
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Phishing attack company

Phishing attacks are booming. This not only affects the individual consumer, companies are also increasingly feeling the consequences of these cyber attacks. With e-mails and other messages as “Trojan horses” for malware, hackers are increasingly able to get company and customer data, extort ransom for them and even paralyze entire businesses. The phishing attacks are becoming more and more obscure: they manage to appear very authentic under the guise of bills, business e-mails or private messages. Many managers are desperate and are even ready to pay ransom in the millions to save their business….

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