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Avoiding spam traps with email list hygiene
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(Guest Opinion)
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... marketing best practices. They are also sometimes referred to as "honeypots" due to the nature of how they operate.
A spam trap is an email address that is not assigned to a normal email user. Instead, ...
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Created on 23 January 2023
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Chinese 8220 Gang targets public clouds and vulnerable applications
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(Guest Research)
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... and evade detection. But it is not perfect and was caught attempting to infect one of Radware's Redis honeypots.
Big picture
According to the 2022 Radware Threat Report, Redis was the fourth most scanned ...
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Created on 20 January 2023
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Nozomi Networks Labs report finds ruin vs. ransom dominates 2022 threat landscape
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(Guest Research)
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... honeypots found:
• Attacks spiked in July, October and December with more than 5,000 unique attacks in each of those months.
• The top attacker IP addresses were associated with China, the United States, ...
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Created on 19 January 2023
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Proofpoint signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Illusive
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(Deals)
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... assets with Illusive Shadow: unlike other deception technologies that deploy agents or honeypots which can tip off or be exploited by the attacker, Illusive Shadow’s agentless architecture prevents attacker ...
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Created on 13 December 2022
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Nozomi Networks Labs report: Wipers and IoT botnets dominate the threat landscape – manufacturing and energy at highest risk
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(Guest Research)
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... activity was on the rise and growing in sophistication. Nozomi Networks Labs set up a series of honeypots to attract these malicious botnets and capture their activity in order to provide additional insights ...
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Created on 04 August 2022
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New report reveals evolving techniques targeting cloud native environments
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(Guest Opinion)
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... wild, researchers utilised honeypots that lure attackers and trick them into conducting their activities in an environment that’s controlled and monitored by researchers. This approach allows them to collect ...
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Created on 09 May 2022
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Aqua Security reveals native technologies used in Russia-Ukraine cyber attacks
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(Guest Opinion)
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... requests to UDP in port 53, and aimed against Russian banks.
Attacks in the wild
As part of our research efforts, we regularly deploy honeypots, ie misconfigured cloud native applications, based on ...
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Created on 23 March 2022
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How an active defence strategy can boost your organisation’s cyber resilience
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(Guest Opinion)
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... direction.
One example of these tactics that are being used involves the establishment of so-called honeypots within an IT infrastructure. These are systems or databases that are not actually being ...
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Created on 21 February 2022
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Logging library flaw opens software from different vendors to RCE
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(Security)
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... said he was seeing widespread exploitation against his honeypots. "...intriguingly, [there was] an attempt against an Apache box before details of this became public," he added.
The vulnerability was ...
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Created on 13 December 2021
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Trickbot trojan, poor security led to FireEye intrusion: claims
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(Security)
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... of both FireEye and Mandiant."
Asked how he differentiated between emulators/honeypots and genuine infections, Kruse replied that he did not do so.
Lets see how this evolves. We won't publish any ...
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Created on 11 December 2020
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Remote control: how an attacker’s actions are manipulated by deception
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(Guest Opinion)
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... is not just a fancy honeypot. Security researchers first introduced honeypots in the ’80s and served as a useful function for understanding who was attacking an organisation from outside the network.
Commercial ...
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Created on 11 August 2020
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Sophos warns against keeping Windows machines on Net with RDP exposed
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(Security)
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Windows machines which have the remote desktop protocol enabled received login attempts within a day of being exposed on the Internet, the British security firm Sophos says, adding that the 10 honeypots ...
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Created on 18 July 2019
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Cyber threats up, but no increase in ransomware: ISACA
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(Security)
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... also found that nearly 4 out of 10 respondents (39%) are not at all familiar or only slightly familiar with active defence strategies (e.g., honeypots and sinkholes), and of those who are familiar with ...
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Created on 06 June 2018
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Artificial Intelligence gets top billing in strategic tech trends for 2018: Gartner
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(Strategy)
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Artifiical Intelligence heads the list of the world’s top 10 strategic technology trends for 2018, with analyst firm Gartner predicting that creating systems that learn, adapt and potentially act autonomously ...
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Created on 06 October 2017
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Malwarebytes says in 2016 threat reality caught up with hype
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(Security)
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... June 2016 through November 2016. In the six months studied, nearly 1 billion total malware detections/incidences were reported. Data was also obtained from Malwarebytes’ internal honeypots and collection ...
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Created on 10 March 2017
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Not all Android VPNs protect users' privacy
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(Security)
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... or search terms used etc.).
82% request permissions to access sensitive resources including user accounts, text messages, contacts, calendar, emails and system logs – they are VPN honeypots to trap user ...
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Created on 26 January 2017
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Deception – the best offence against cyber attack
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(Security)
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... responses have yielded solutions based on behavioural analytics and machine learning — which generate an extremely high rate of false positives — or honeypots, which have a high level of false negatives. ...
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Created on 20 July 2016
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Harnessing your inner SIEM
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(Security)
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... enables an automated response or a semi-automated response with a sophisticated approval process.
Employ Honeypots for an Adaptive and Proactive Response
Honeypots are isolated systems such as web ...
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Created on 21 March 2016
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Highly advanced Locky ransomware hits Australia
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(Security)
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... one point over 200,000 emails per hour were hitting Trustwave SpiderLab’s honeypots. “Locky already covers a big chunk of the infections in the two weeks of its existence. It also surpassed TeslaCrypt ...
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Created on 11 March 2016
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Chinese hackers hack fake US water system
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(Security)
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... Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that his company has been busy setting up 'honeypots' in order to catch hackers.
The malware used, and other characteristics, were unique to APT1, which security company ...
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Created on 05 August 2013
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Websense 2010 Threat Report: Advanced, Blended Threats Laser-Focused on Attacking Business and Infrastructure
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(Sponsored Announcements)
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... including honeyclients, honeypots, reputation systems, machine learning, and advanced grid computing systems to parse through more than 1 billion pieces of content daily, searching for security threats. ...
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Created on 11 November 2010
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Websense Unveils First Internet Security "Honeygrid" To Discover and Classify Web 2.0 Conten
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(Vendor submitted release)
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... the world’s first “Internet HoneyGrid™” melds both honeypots and advanced grid computing systems to parse through more than one billion pieces of content daily searching for security threats. The new ...
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Created on 27 March 2008