Displaying items by tag: credential theft

Morphing Meerkat spoofs over 100 brands and steals credentials

COMPANY NEWS:  Most businesses struggle with identity verification and have concerns over ability to protect against AI

Based on a recent survey and their own research, Trend Micro has announced that the current cyber risk level has dropped from ‘elevated’ to ‘moderate’ and that five organisations in six expect a successful cyber attack in the coming year.

Ransomware Remains One of the Greatest Cybercrime Threats to Organisations

The cyberthreat landscape has reached a new level of commercialisation and convenience for would-be attackers, with nearly all barriers to entry for committing cybercrime removed through the expansion of cybercrime-as-a-service, according to a new report from one cybersecurity company.

Identity detection and response specialist Attivo Networks' new TheatStrike technology is said to hide real credentials from attacker tools and bind them to their applications, while showing decoy credentials as bait for threat intelligence gathering.

Company News: Attivo Networks, the industry experts in lateral movement attack detection and privilege escalation prevention, announced today a new integration for the Attivo EDN Suite with SentinelOne's Singularity XDR platform. With an uptick in the number of human and machine entities to secure, the attack surface is expanding, making it challenging for organisations to protect their networks from credential-based attacks.

Security attacks taking advantage of concerns over the coronavirus outbreak have seen attackers leverage conspiracy theory-based fears around purported unreleased cures for the virus and campaigns that abuse perceived legitimate sources of health information to manipulate users, according to a global security firm.

Global security company Symantec has released a new solution — email threat isolation — designed to block advanced email attacks on end user devices by helping to protect users against spear phishing, credential theft, account takeover and ransomware attacks.