Surging Cyberattacks Boost Latin America to Riskiest Region
The region is up against tactics like data-leak extortion, credential-stealing campaigns, edge-device exploitation, and attackers leveraging AI.
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The region is up against tactics like data-leak extortion, credential-stealing campaigns, edge-device exploitation, and attackers leveraging AI.
The threat actors are abusing the vulnerabilities to gain initial access, obtain credentials, and install malicious scripts on user devices.
The second zero-day vulnerability found in Windows NTLM in the past two months paves the way for relay attacks and credential theft. Microsoft has no patch, but released updated NTLM cyberattack mitigation advice.
Cybercriminals are selling credentials linked to the tournament on underground markets, with some geopolitics playing out in denial-of-service attacks.
Credential-stealing emails are getting past artificial intelligence's "known good" email security controls by cloaking malicious payloads within seemingly benign emails. The tactic poses a significant threat to enterprise networks.
The cyberattacks used the legitimate Salesforce.com domain by chaining the vulnerability to an abuse of Facebook's Web games platform, slipping past email protections.
Secure email gateways and end users alike are being fooled by a cyberattack campaign that's enjoying skyrocketing volumes against businesses in every industry, globally.
In next-gen, credential-harvesting attacks, phishing emails use cloud services and are free from the typical bad grammar or typos they've traditionally used (and which users have learned to flag).
Reddit code, internal documents, dashboards, and business systems were compromised in the cyberattack.
Half of a million passwords from the RockYou2021 list account for 99.997% of all credential attacks against a variety of honeypots, suggesting attackers are just taking the easy road.