A targeted attack refers to a type of threat in which threat actors actively pursue and compromise a target entity’s infrastructure while maintaining anonymity. These attackers have a certain level of expertise and have sufficient resources to conduct their schemes over a long-term period. They ...
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Cyber security covers various aspects of confidentiality, integrity, availability, and other related concepts for organizations and individuals. With the increase in web services, Internet enabled devices, and the amount of data generated, we see a huge
Global financial phishing attack share 2023, by company type Chinese websites affected by phishing in 2011 Websites affected by phishing in China in 2012, by type Cyber crime types committed against the financial sector in Hungary 2019 U.S. SME ransomware unleashing 2016 Reaction to simulated phis...
Cybercriminals use targeted ransomware attacks because they know that the organization contains vulnerabilities. If this attack hits a company, it’s highly likely to succeed. Cybersecurity experts state that cybercriminals usually attack companies with an insecure RDP connection....
Patel's example isn't isolated, either; KrebsonSecurity has details on a very similar attack that happened to a crypto hedge fund owner identified by his first name, Chris, as well as a security researcher identified as Ken. In Chris' example, the attack persisted for several days, and al...
Unfortunately, the attack is not the only problem. After all, it shows that there are various vulnerabilities hackers can exploit. Also, it shows that cybersecurity is no longer just an option, especially fordecentralized social networks. After all, they allow us to control our data, move betw...
the installation on the target system might be detected by a dedicated host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS). Each of the models helps to plan network defense measures as well as illustrates some data providers that are promising to use in an attack detection system. This is the reason...
This is highly targeted attack. Kaspersky Lab observed indicators of attacks against government organizations and commercial entities in the US, Germany, South Korea and Uzbekistan. Some of the targets from 2014 include the White House and Department of State in the US. ...
The critical infrastructure systems we rely on to deliver water, electricity, fuel and other essential services are under siege. Increasingly, ransomware is becoming cyber criminals’ attack method...