December 19, 2023

How vulnerable is your company?

Many cyberattacks are successful due to following the path of least resistance by exploiting weak passwords or social engineering schemes. These basic attacks are no less destructive than those leveraged on a technical level. They often leave organizations scrambling to explain their negligence while mitigating the material damage in a cyberattack.

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You could expect larger corporations to have processes to ensure simple hacks are unsuccessful. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case.

Read Simple hacks that took down big companies.

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News roundup Mon, December 19, 2023

Stories, news, politics and events impacting the network security industry during the last week.

• Four US residents behind $80 million pig butchering campaign charged by Department of Justice
• New KV-Botnet discovered to be targeting firewalls and routers to launch attacks
• BazarCall attackers legitimizing phishing emails using Google Forms
• Victims have lost $1 billion in cryptocurrency to approval phishing scammers
• New cybercrime market OLVX utilizes SEO and exclusive toolkits to grow in popularity
• WordPress RCE vulnerability found in plug-in downloaded more than 90,000 times
• Lazarus Group continues to exploit Log4J bug with new RAT malware
• Millions of patients’ data stolen in ransomware attack against Norton Healthcare
• Interpol reports that human trafficking for cyber fraud is expanding globally
• Nearly 40% of Log4J apps are still vulnerable to security issues
• Read more

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