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­Stories from the SOC: Quishing – Combatting embedded malicious QR codes

James Rodriguez – Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Executive summary ­­Over the past several months, AT&T Managed Detection and Response (MTDR) security operations center (SOC) analysts have seen an increase in the usage of phishing emails containing malicious QR codes. In a recent example, a customer that was victimized by a phishing attempt provided the AT&T analysts […]

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New Threat Actor “Grayling” Blamed For Espionage Campaign

Symantec highlights distinctive DLL sideloading technique

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Magecart Hackers Hide in 404 Error Pages

Akamai spots new digital skimming campaign

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  • October 10, 2023

The undeniable benefits of making cyber resiliency the new standard

As a vice president at Symantec from 2000 to 2009, Rob Clyde witnessed repeated attacks on the cybersecurity company’s system that processed client requests for software updates. Constantly bombarded with illegitimate queries, the system could nevertheless handle the fraudulent volume and still process and respond to legitimate traffic. The company built the system in a […]

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  • October 10, 2023

5 practical recommendations implementing zero trust

Despite organizations upping their spend on cybersecurity technology, infrastructure, and services each year, threat actors are still finding ways to slip through the cracks. There are two main reasons for this: One, human error: Unfortunately, many users still don’t take security seriously. They’re visiting websites that they shouldn’t, clicking on things that they shouldn’t, and […]

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Magecart Hackers Hide in 404 Error Pages

Akamai spots new digital skimming campaign

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Magecart Hackers Hide in 404 Error Pages

Akamai spots new digital skimming campaign

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Private Internet Access VPN: A Comprehensive Review for 2023

When it comes to privacy and security, PIA VPN is among the best. Discover its features, performance, pricing and more with this in-depth review.

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  • October 10, 2023

Citrix Devices Under Attack: NetScaler Flaw Exploited to Capture User Credentials

A recently disclosed critical flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway devices is being exploited by threat actors to conduct a credential harvesting campaign. IBM X-Force, which uncovered the activity last month, said adversaries exploited “CVE-2023-3519 to attack unpatched NetScaler Gateways to insert a malicious script into the HTML content of the authentication web page to capture […]

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