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Microsoft: Ransomware Attacks Growing More Dangerous, Complex

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Microsoft: Ransomware Attacks Growing More Dangerous, Complex

The number of attempted ransomware attacks on Microsoft customers globally have grown dramatically in the last year, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense report, released on Oct. 15. However, advancements in automatic attack disruption technologies have led to fewer of these attacks reaching the encryption stage. Microsoft reported 600 million cybercriminal and nation-state attacks occurring daily. While ransomware attempts increased by 2.75 times, successful attacks involving data encryption and ransom demands dropped by three-fold. The inverse…

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Cybersecurity Firm: What US Journalists Need To Know About The Foreign Hackers Targeting Them

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Cybersecurity Firm: What US Journalists Need To Know About The Foreign Hackers Targeting Them

Photo illustration of a computer hacker. getty In the days just before the January 6 attack at the US Capitol Building in 2021, a flurry of emails with seemingly anodyne subject lines started landing in the inboxes of White House correspondents and other journalists who cover national politics. Those subject lines, pulled from recent US news articles, read like quick blasts of news filtered through a distinctly partisan lens: US issues Russia threat to China….

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State-backed hackers targeted US-based journalists in widespread spy campaigns: report

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State-backed hackers targeted US-based journalists in widespread spy campaigns: report

State-sponsored hackers from China, North Korea, Iran and Turkey have been regularly spying on and impersonating journalists from various media outlets in an effort to infiltrate their networks and gain access to sensitive information, according to a report released on Thursday by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.  The report reveals that government-backed hackers used various tools to target journalists, including sending phishing emails to gain access to reporters’ work emails, social media accounts and networks. The report…

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Report highlights strange and unusual tactics scammers use to steal data

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Report highlights strange and unusual tactics scammers use to steal data

Cyber attackers are getting more creative as they choose their victims. For evidence, look no further than Proofpoint’s “Strangest Social Engineering Tactics of 2021,” released in early March. “They all gave us reason for concern,” said Ryan Kalember, the executive vice president of cybersecurity strategy at Proofpoint. “Just in terms of how much effort the attackers are putting into this, the labor that they use in order to do this, it means that their businesses…

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Silicon Valley Company Tracks Threat of Foreign Election Interference

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Silicon Valley Company Tracks Threat of Foreign Election Interference

One of the hotly debated topics of Thursday’s presidential debate had to do with Iran and Russia, after the FBI said that foreign operatives used stolen voter registration data to intimidate Democratic voters. Federal officials said the foreign operatives sent emails filled with disinformation to try to confuse and scare voters while posing as far-right extremists threatening to hurt Democratic voters if they didn’t vote for President Trump. In Silicon Valley, cyber security company Proofpoint…

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