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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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  • March 15, 2023

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2023 Edition

Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to quash at least 74 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and software. Two of those flaws are already being actively attacked, including an especially severe weakness in Microsoft Outlook that can be exploited without any user interaction. The Outlook vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) affects all versions of Microsoft Outlook from […]

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Software supply chain attacks are on the rise — are you at risk?

Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Sysdig. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Attacks targeting the software supply chain are on the rise and splashed across the news. SolarWinds raised awareness about the risk. More recent events, like the Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency breach, […]

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  • March 14, 2023

Deepfakes, Synthetic Media: How Digital Propaganda Undermines Trust

Organizations must educate themselves and their users on how to detect, disrupt, and defend against the increasing volume of online disinformation.

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Final Three Sentenced in £70m Money Laundering Case

London-based group also illegally obtained COVID relief funds

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  • March 13, 2023

Warning: AI-generated YouTube Video Tutorials Spreading Infostealer Malware

Threat actors have been increasingly observed using AI-generated YouTube Videos to spread a variety of stealer malware such as Raccoon, RedLine, and Vidar. “The videos lure users by pretending to be tutorials on how to download cracked versions of software such as Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Autodesk 3ds Max, AutoCAD, and other products that are licensed […]

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