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New research by Recorded Future provides insight into how advanced and sophisticated the threat group Marko Polo has become since launching in 2022. Marko Polo is of particular interest due to their rapid progress in advancing their operations.

Industry analysis of the domains used behind phishing and brand impersonation attacks show financial institutions are being leveraged at an alarming rate. It’s one thing to see your industry at the top of some “state of” cybersecurity report, but it’s entirely different to learn that 68% of all phishing web pages identified in a single quarter are from your industry. That’s exactly what we find in Akamai’s latest analysis of websites across the Internet.

A new “so-phish-ticated” attack uses phone calls, social engineering, lookalike domains, and impersonated company VPN sites to gain initial access to a victim network. This is one of the most advanced initial access attacks I’ve seen. Security analysts at GuidePoint Security have published details on a new attack that tricks users into providing the attacker with credentialed access.

This recent article on how a hacker used genealogy websites to help better guess victims' password reset answers made it a great time to share a suggestion: Don’t answer password reset questions with real answers! It’s not Jeopardy! You don’t have to answer the questions correctly. In fact, you’re putting yourself at increased risk if you do. Instead, give a false question to any required password reset answer.

When Walt Disney first unveiled the Magic Kingdom, he made a decision that would revolutionize theme park design - and inadvertently offer a valuable lesson for cybersecurity professionals. Instead of pre-determining where visitors should walk, Disney let guests create their own paths. Only after observing these "desire paths" did Disney pave the official walkways. This approach, seemingly simple, carries profound implications for how we should approach security in our organizations.

The recent cyber attack on Dick's Sporting Goods makes it clear that email played a critical role and emphasizes the need for better security controls. Dick’s Sporting Goods is a $12 billion company with more than 800 stores across the United States. That measure of success made the retailer the target of a recent cyber attack. A filing with the U.S.

Yubico has published a survey of 20,000 people from 10 countries around the world, finding that 40% of respondents have never received cybersecurity training from their employer. Additionally, 70% of respondents said they’ve been exposed to cyber attacks in their personal lives within the past 12 months, and 50% faced cyber attacks at work.

The criminal prosecution of the threat actors behind the "OTP Agency" has highlighted an ingenious new tactic that cybercriminals can use to bypass multi-factor authentication. The OTP Agency launched back in November of 2019. Their service was simple: if you have a compromised credential, their service would call the credential owner and pose as the website the account was for citing fraudulent activity, and ask the owner to verify themselves by providing the one-time password (OTP) sent to them via SMS.

The number of ransomware attacks around the world increased by 73% in 2023, according to a new report by the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force (RTF). These attacks opportunistically target organizations across all industries, but the hardest-hit sectors over the past two years have been construction, hospitals and health care, government, IT services and consulting, and financial services.