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Phishing Campaigns Use SuperMailer to Evade Email Security A high-volume, credential-harvesting campaign is using a legitimate email newsletter program called SuperMailer to send phishing emails designed to evade secure email gateway (SEG) protections. This campaign’s monthly volume has more than doubled in three out of the past four months, accounting for a significant 5% of…
Risk Aggregation in Cybersecurity is a New Phenomenon that Needs a Data-Driven Approach The Concerns with Aggregate Cyber Risk Risk aggregation is the act of grouping compounded risks together to understand the total risk to an institution, region, or industry. Aggregate risk becomes catastrophic when multiple risks come together to create a single devastating incident…
Cybercriminals Double Size of Large-Scale Phishing Campaign with SuperMailer The use of legitimate tools for nefarious purposes is an age-old problem in cybersecurity. Recently, cybercriminals have been abusing the SuperMailer newsletter distribution app to launch a large-scale credential phishing campaign since January 2023, which has doubled in size each passing month. As per Cofense, this…
FBI Warns US Citizens of False Advertisements Leading to Labor Trafficking in Southeast Asia The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning US citizens who are either living or traveling in Southeast Asia to be mindful of fake job advertisements, which are causing labor trafficking leading to cryptocurrency investment fraud. The fraudsters, who are predominantly members…
Treasury Department Imposes Sanctions on Entities Linked to North Korean Cyber Activities The United States Treasury Department has issued sanctions against four entities and one individual for their involvement in malicious cyber activities that support North Korea and its weapons programs. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) coordinated with the Republic of Korea…
PyPI open-source code repository deals with manic malware maelstrom A recent cyber-attack on the PyPI open-source code repository platform highlights once again the cybersecurity risks that users face when interacting with community source code repositories. The repository serves as a fantastic source of free operating systems, applications, programming libraries, and developers’ toolkits that have done…
South Korean researchers develop DarkBERT for analyzing the Dark Web A team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology has developed a language model to analyze the Dark Web, a hidden bunch of websites with illegal activities that are difficult for conventional search engines to index. The system, named DarkBERT, has…
Network Security: Mikrotik Belatedly Patches RouterOS Flaw Exploited at Pwn2Own The Latvian network equipment manufacturer Mikrotik has recently shipped a patch for a security defect in its RouterOS, which had already been exploited five months ago at the Pwn2Own Toronto hacking contest. The issue affects devices running MikroTik RouterOS versions v6.xx and v7.xx with enabled…
Cybersecurity Awareness Training: Evolving to Address Risk in the Technology-driven Corporate World Introduction Cybersecurity awareness training has always been a critical component of organizational risk management. In recent years, the industry has witnessed a drastic transformation in the way organizations approach cybersecurity awareness training. The growing role of cyber-insurance providers and the rising cost of…
Bridgestone Americas CISO Offers Advice After Ransomware Attack Tom Corridon, the CISO of Bridgestone Americas, shared advice for organizations on handling a ransomware attack in an interview at Accenture’s virtual cybersecurity summit. According to Corridon, the most important advice for organizations is to designate key decision-makers for handling such crises before they happen. In the…