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Free Unsolicited Smartwatch in the Mail and I’m in the Military? What Could Possibly Go Wrong???

KnowBe4

From the “shaking our heads” files comes the story of how threat actors compromised military personnel mobile devices, credentials, accounts and more.

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State-Sponsored Russian Phishing Campaigns Target a Variety of Industries

KnowBe4

APT28 has been tied to Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU. Researchers at IBM X-Force are monitoring several ongoing phishing campaigns by the Russian state-sponsored threat actor ITG05 (also known as “APT28” or “Fancy Bear”).

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It’s Time to Combine Security Awareness and Privacy Awareness

KnowBe4

With bad guys like this, it’s hardly any surprise that our good guys proudly don the honorable mantle of law enforcement or military, and use an abundance of military language to describe their work, from defending the perimeter to threat vectors and so on.

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Blocking Social Engineering by Foreign Bad Actors: The Role of the New Foreign Malign Influence Center

KnowBe4

military, law enforcement, intelligence, and diplomatic agencies. government created a new office to block disinformation. The new Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) oversees efforts that span U.S.

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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

IoT devices help remotely control our household appliances, power plants, smart buildings, factories, airports, shipyards, trucks, trains and military. This is why it is important to build employee training for consumer IoT devices into security awareness training programs.” And we’re just getting started.

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

One of the most single-minded of these security vendors is startup CyCognito. The company was launched in Tel Aviv in 2017 by a couple of former Israeli military cyber ops attack specialists, Rob Gurzeev and Dima Potekhin. That’s a major step forward.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #14 [Eyes on the Prize] How Crafty Cons Attempted a 36 Million Vendor Email Heist

KnowBe4

Security solutions will help stop most attacks, but for those that make it past scanners, your users need to play a role in spotting and stopping BEC, VEC and phishing attacks themselves – something taught through security awareness training combined with frequent simulated phishing and other social engineering tests.

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