Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: March 2023

ChipMixer Crypto Laundromat Shut Down By German, US Authorities

The operation seized four servers, 7TB of data and 1909.4 Bitcoins (roughly $47.3m)

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UK Bank Limits Crypto Payments to Smother Fraud

NatWest warns of “life-changing” customer losses

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  • March 15, 2023

Are We Doing Enough to Protect Our Unstructured Data?

Organizations are coming under pressure to protect their data, but does all data need the same security? To secure it, you first need to know what and where it is.

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Palo Alto announces new SD-WAN features for IoT security, compliance support

Cybersecurity vendor Palo Alto has announced new software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) features in its Prisma SASE solution for IoT device security and to help customers meet industry-specific security compliance requirements. It has also announced advanced URL filtering for the prevention of unknown and evasive man-in-the-middle (MitM) and SaaS platform phishing attacks. SD-WAN for IoT […]

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  • March 15, 2023

SMBs Orgs Want Help, but Cybersecurity Expertise Is Scarce

Smaller firms are boosting cybersecurity budgets, but there’s a long way to go to address a deep lack of cyber preparedness among SMBs.

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  • March 15, 2023

Cybercriminals target SVB customers with BEC and cryptocurrency scams

Cybercriminals have started taking advantage of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) downfall to carrying out scams that can steal money, and bank account information, or infect customers’ systems with malware. SVB was shut down on March 10 by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, after the bank failed to raise capital to keep running. […]

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  • March 15, 2023

YoroTrooper Stealing Credentials and Information from Government and Energy Organizations

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed YoroTrooper has been targeting government, energy, and international organizations across Europe as part of a cyber espionage campaign that has been active since at least June 2022. “Information stolen from successful compromises include credentials from multiple applications, browser histories and cookies, system information and screenshots,” Cisco

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  • March 15, 2023

Why Security Practitioners Should Understand Their Business

The sooner CISOs become proactive in understanding the flip side of the organizations they protect, the better they’ll be at their jobs.

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  • March 15, 2023

Dell beefs up security portfolio with new threat detection and recovery tools

Dell Technologies has added a slew of in-house as well as partnered capabilities to its security portfolio in a bid to beef up its capabilities in areas including threat security, management, and incident response. “Through ongoing innovation and a powerful ecosystem of partners, we’re committed to helping organizations protect against threats, withstand and recover from […]

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