Holiday Cybercrime: Retail Risks and Dark Web Kicks
This year, we will discuss the most common alerts we have sent to our retail clients, how these digital risks affect consumers as the holiday season approaches, and peek into the cybercriminal...
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To Pay or Not to Pay: A Large Retailer Responds to DDoS Extortion
Fans of The Sopranos or Goodfellas are well-versed in the world of extortion. Whether it is paying off Tony Soprano ...
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WEEKLY: COVID-19 Third Party App Risks, Zoom, And DarkHotel Hackers
Coming to you from Dallas this week - we have Kacey, Harrison, Alex, and Charles. This week the team talks through third party app risks as they relate to COVID-19, as well as touch on security...
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NSA Vulnerability Disclosure, Ransomware News, And Iran Updates
Kacey, Charles, Alex, and Harrison host this week’s threat intelligence update from Dallas. We kick off with vulnerabilities from the week. This includes both the NSA CVE and Citrix CVE. The team...
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Third Party Risk: 4 ways to manage your security ecosystem
Don’t assume your data is safe because you’ve completed a vendor risk questionnaire, or the third-party has a promising risk score. Data finds a way online. Find a way to detect it when it does.
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2020 Cybersecurity Forecasts: 5 trends and predictions for the new year
In this blog, we discuss several significant trends and events that have helped shape the cyber threat landscape, all of which will almost certainly continue through 2020.
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Iranian Cyber Threats, Travelex Ransomware Attack, And Exploit Forum Updates
Viktoria hosts this week and introduces the episode bringing Sammy on to provide some regional insight and context around the Iranian cyber threat and discusses whether a cyber response is likely.
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Black Friday Deals on the Dark Web: A cybercriminal shopper’s paradise
Criminals are conducting Black Friday sales amongst themselves, many of which are on the dark web.
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The Closure of Market.ms: A Cybercriminal Marketplace Ahead of Its Time
While it may be challenging to assess what went wrong for market[.]ms conclusively, this blog examines some potential reasons behind its demise, as well as looking at the extraordinary professionalism
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Forums are Forever – Part 2: Shaken, but not Stirred
Part 2 looks at cybercriminal forum users’ resistance to moving away from the forum model.
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Forums are Forever – Part 1: Cybercrime Never Dies
The survival of the cybercriminal forum in the face of new, more secure technologies and constant pressure from law enforcement does not come as a surprise to researchers at Digital Shadows.
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Threat Intelligence: A Deep Dive
Welcome to our deep dive on threat intelligence: intended to help security professionals embarking on creating and building a ...
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Cybercriminal credit card stores: Is Brian out of the club?
In this blog, we determine whether this targeted attack on BriansClub will impact the wider cybercriminal credit carding landscape, and speculate whether it could galvanize the community to push anoth
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Dark Web Overdrive: The Criminal Marketplace Understood Through Cyberpunk Fiction
How can the modern network of .onion marketplaces be understood through novels about a cyberpunk dystopia? The answer is in how dark web marketplaces grow and die.
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