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A Decade-Long Landscape of Advanced Persistent Threats: Longitudinal Analysis and Global Trends
An advanced persistent threat APT refers to a covert, long-term cyberattack, typically conducted by state-sponsored actors, targeting critical sectors and often remaining undetected for long periods. In response, collective intelligence from around the globe collaborates to identify and trace...
Privacy predictions 2023
Our last edition of privacy predictions focused on a few important trends where business and government interests intersect, with regulators becoming more active in a wide array of privacy issues. Indeed, we saw regulatory activity around the globe. In the US, for example, the FTC has requested...
TA505 Gang Is Back With Newly Polished FlawedGrace RAT
The TA505 cybercrime group is whirring its financial rip-off machinery back up, pelting malware at a range of industries in what was initially low-volume waves that researchers saw spiral up late last month. They do bad things, but they’re so tricky that tracking them is a ton of fun, said Sherro...
New Call to Regulate IoT Security By Design
A Washington, D.C. think tank whose mission is critical infrastructure security has joined the call for lawmakers to consider regulating the security of connected devices. In a report published this week, the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology pinned the blame for a rash of Mirai...
Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Deposit Notification Email Messages on September 23, 2013
Medium Alert ID: 30941 First Published: 2013 September 23 14:17 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank transfer notification for the recipient. The message attempts to persuade the recipient to open the...
Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Document Sharing Email Messages on July 3, 2013
Medium Alert ID: 29948 First Published: 2013 July 5 13:18 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain documents for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient ...