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Tenable®, Inc., la compañía de Cyber Exposure, publicó un estudio de la industria global que reveló que el 74 % de los líderes de seguridad y negocios mexicanos atribuyen los recientes ataques cibernéticos que afectan a los negocios* a la tecnología implementada durante la pandemia. Los datos provienen de ‘Más allá de los límites: El futuro de la ciberseguridad en el nuevo mundo laboral’, un estudio que se aplicó a más de 1.300 líderes de…

Eighty percent of security and business leaders said their organizations have more exposure to risk today as a result of remote work Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, published a global industry study that revealed 74% of organizations attribute recent business-impacting* cyberattacks to vulnerabilities in technology put in place during the pandemic. The data is drawn from ‘Beyond Boundaries: The Future of Cybersecurity in the New World of Work,’ a commissioned study of more than…

Extortion, and especially “sextortion” emails, are becoming more frequent, and they can be extremely alarming when received. Such emails work by using threats to extort money, evoking intense fear. This type of correspondence comes in many guises and features various elements, but essentially, they work in the same way. These activities can refer to real-life experience such as cheating on a partner or online behaviors such as visiting porn sites. They are called sextortion scams…

Authored by Anuradha M McAfee Labs have observed a new phishing campaign that utilizes macro capabilities available in Microsoft PowerPoint. In this campaign, the spam email comes with a PowerPoint file as an attachment. Upon opening the malicious attachment, the VBA macro executes to deliver variants of AgentTesla which is a well-known password stealer. These spam emails purport to be related to financial transactions.   AgentTesla is a RAT (Remote Access Trojan) malware that has been active since…

Retribution by hacking back might make you feel better, but experts urge caution and explain why it’s a bad idea. Image: xijian / Getty Images Throughout history, acts of revenge, retaliation, retribution and reciprocation have been used to deter further deeds by a perceived wrongdoer. Michael McCullough, a professor of psychology at the University of Miami, suggested to Jennifer Breheny Wallace in her Washington Post article Why getting even may make you feel worse in…