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2020-10-13 Elizabeth Montalbano

Office 365: A Favorite for Cyberattack Persistence

Bad actors are leveraging legitimate services and tools within Microsoft’s productivity suite to launch cyberattacks on COVID-19 stay-at-home workers, new research finds.

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2020-10-13 Elizabeth Montalbano

Office 365: A Favorite for Cyberattack Persistence

Bad actors are leveraging legitimate services and tools within Microsoft’s productivity suite to launch cyberattacks on COVID-19 stay-at-home workers, new research finds.

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2020-06-25 Elizabeth Montalbano

Office 365 Users Targeted By ‘Coronavirus Employee Training’ Phish

Threat actors shift focus from COVID-19 to employee coronavirus training and current events like Black Lives Matter as cyber-attacks continue to rise.

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2020-06-08 Pat Cooper

Can Governments Defeat Nation-State Attacks on Critical Infrastructures?

The one cyber risk that governments are much better at controlling than we are is insider threats. Governments have been dealing with people threats for centuries and have powerful tools at their disposal for such investigations.

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2020-05-15 Elizabeth Montalbano

Paying Ransomware Crooks Doubles Clean-up Costs, Report

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2020-04-01 Elizabeth Montalbano

Top Email Protections Fail in Latest COVID-19 Phishing Campaign

An effective spoofing campaign promises users important information about new coronavirus cases in their local area, scooting past Proofpoint and Microsoft Office 356 ATPs.

2020-04-01 Elizabeth Montalbano

Top Email Protections Fail in Latest COVID-19 Phishing Campaign

An effective spoofing campaign promises users important information about new coronavirus cases in their local area, scooting past Proofpoint and Microsoft Office 356 ATPs.

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2020-03-10 Elizabeth Montalbano

Variant of Paradise Ransomware Targets Office IQY Files

Threat actors can easily infiltrate networks because attacks evade detection by typical security protections.

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2020-02-05 Tara Seals

WhatsApp Bug Allows Malicious Code-Injection, One-Click RCE

A high-severity vulnerability could allow cybercriminals to push malware or remotely execute code, using seemingly innocuous messages.

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2020-01-28 Elizabeth Montalbano

LoRaWAN Encryption Keys Easy to Crack, Jeopardizing Security of IoT Networks

New research from IOActive has found that “blindly” trusting the encryption of the widely adopted device protocol can lead to DDoS, sending of false data and other cyber attacks.