We cannot emphasise how important multi-factor authentication is to your cyber security – however, of course, the threat actors do have ways around it: Cookie stealing: the new perimeter bypass – Sophos News The threat is malware getting into your system and stealing session cookies that are associated with the …
Credential theft – where the threat actors start and some advice
Collecting (stealing) credentials is a favourite pastime of threat actors – either to break into accounts directly or to add them to their credential stuffing attacks (looking for those people who reuse passwords) or just to sell on the dark web! Here they are doing it to users of the …
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Credential thefts and Amazon’s AWS cloud
Threat actors have to host their malicious login stealing pages somewhere – why not in Amazon’s cloud: Hiding a phishing attack behind the AWS cloud
Tourist rebound after COVID-19 is an obvious target for phishing attacks
Research company Proofpoint, has shown that the threat actor, tracked as TA558, has increased it’s phishing campaigns targeted at hotel and travel companies, to coincide with the rapid increase in foreign travel as the pandemic decreases. Hackers target hotel and travel companies with fake reservations (bleepingcomputer.com) Threat actors are always …
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Phishing attacks are meant to deceive everyone…
Even someone like me and Dan Goodwin, who wrote the linked article – people who work in cybersecurity all the time. I’m a security reporter and got fooled by a blatant phish | Ars Technica It is worth reading to see what you are dealing with, when it comes to …
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