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Threat Actor

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2020 State of the Phish

Our sixth annual State of the Phish report again brings you critical, actionable insights into the current state of the phishing threat. You’ll learn about: • The end-user awareness and knowledge gaps that could be hurting your cybersecurity defenses The impacts information security professionals are experiencing because of phishing attacks and the ways they’re trying to combat these threats • How Proofpoint customers are approaching phishing awareness training, and the ways we’re helping them measure program success

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Added: March 29, 2020
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2019 Website Threat Research Report

Our 2019 Threat Research Report is a deep dive into our logs, experiences, and collected analysis. It summarizes and identifies the latest tactics, techniques, and procedures seen by the Malware Research team, Vulnerability Research team, Threat Intel Research team and Remediation Groups at Sucuri/GoDaddy.

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Added: March 29, 2020
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2020 Global Threat Report

If there’s one thing this year’s Global Threat Report really brings home, it’s that there’s never been a better time to get involved in cybersecurity. The stakes are high, and rising every day. Those that read and share this report are helping to educate themselves and others to better protect themselves and their communities, both at work and at home.

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Added: March 29, 2020
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Threat Landscape Report Q4 2019

This is the threat landscape report from Fortinet for the 4th quarter of 2019. It goes into changes in this quarter, including threat detection changes and attack changes.

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Added: March 15, 2020
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M-Trends 2020

FireEye has been detecting and responding to cyber attacks every day for over 15 years. The release of M-Trends® 2020 marks 11 years of providing the cyber security community with insights gained from the frontlines of those attacks.

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Added: March 1, 2020
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State of the Internet / Security Vol. 6: Financial Services — Hostile Takeover Attempts

This is the 6th annual SOTI from Akamai. The Key findings are: • Between November 2017 and October 2019, more than 40% of the unique DDoS targets were in the financial services industry • Traditional logins (username and password) still account for the majority (74%) of access methods to applications and services • From May to October 2019, credential stuffing attacks targeting the financial services industry have targeted APIs, often accounting for 75% or more of the total login attacks against financial services

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Added: March 1, 2020
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2019 Year in Review: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of ICS Cybersecurity

This report - compiled from the engagements performed throughout 2019 in customer environments by our threat hunting, penetration testing, incident response, tabletop exercise, and assessments teams

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Added: March 1, 2020
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2019 Year in Review: The ICS Landscape and Threat Activity Groups

This report anticipates activity targeting and affecting ICS to increase into 2020 and further. It expects to see more adversaries expand their focus to additional criticalinfrastructure and industrial environments, which willlikely align with activity associated with military orgeopolitical conflict. Although defenders continue to gaininsight through OT-specific detection and monitoringplatforms, it is imperative people continue to improvevisibility into activities and threats impacting criticalinfrastructure.

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Added: March 1, 2020
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2019 Year in Review: ICS Vulnerabilities

The findings in this report are a comprehensive look at ICS vulnerability statistics, including how they affect industrial control networks and whether appropriate mitigation is provided alongside the published advisories. Dragos identifies errors in the vulnerability scores associated with public reports, a critical part of our vulnerability assessments. By identifying and updating errors in vulnerability scores, Dragos vulnerability assessments help asset owners and operators better prioritize and manage patching and update procedures.

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Added: March 1, 2020
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Analysis: Pricing of Goods and Services on the Deep & Dark Web

The survey results and relevant observations are as follows: The inner workings of this underground economy havecome to play an influential role in many of the cyberand physical risks facing organizations today. Toenhance the context within which these illicit goodsand services are obtained, abused, and ultimatelycontribute to such risks, Flashpoint analysts conducteda survey of the prices for various offerings listed forsale across the Deep & Dark Web. While analysts’findings should be interpreted as case studies andgeneral observations rather than precise statistics, thisreport can and should serve to inform the security andrisk strategies of organizations across all sectors.

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Added: February 18, 2020
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The New Mafia: Gangs and Vigilantes

This guide was constructed with insight from a global panel of Malwarebytes experts and external experts from a variety of disciplines. It also features a brief review of cybercrime history, the emergence of new participants and the impact on businesses and individuals.

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Added: February 18, 2020
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2019 Cyber Threatscape Report

Accenture details trends in cyber threats in 2019. It narrows it down to five key features of the 2019 Trendscape: 1. New threats are occuring from technology evolution and disinformation. 2:Cybercriminals adapt, hustle, diversify, and are looking more like states. 3: hybrid motives pose new dangers of ransomware defense and response 4:Improved ecosystem hygiene is pushing threats to the supply chain

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Added: February 17, 2020
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Global DDoS Threat Landscape Q4 2017

Imperva outlines trends in the DDoS threat landscape in 2017, including that the number of attacks has doubled, that crypto-currency continues to be targeted, and that persistent attacks are growing more common.

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Added: February 17, 2020
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Costs and Consequences of Gaps in Vulnerability Response

Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the findings of the second study on vulnerabilityand patch management. As shown inthis research, the severity and volume ofcyberattacks is increasing. However, mostorganizations are not comparably enhancingtheir abilities to prevent hackers fromexploiting attack vectors. In fact, it’s takinglonger to detect and longer to patch criticalvulnerabilities than last year. The cost andconsequences of this failure are myriad.

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Added: February 17, 2020
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2019 Internet Crime Report

This year’s Internet Crime Report highlights the IC3’s efforts to monitor trending scams such as Business Email Compromise (BEC), Ransomware, Elder Fraud, and Tech Support Fraud. As the report indicates, in 2019, IC3 received a total of 467,361 complaints with reported losses exceeding $3.5 billion. The most prevalent crime types reported were Phishing/Vishing/Smishing/Pharming, Non-Payment/Non-Delivery, Extortion, and Personal Data Breach. The top three crime types with the highest reported losses were BEC, Confidence/Romance Fraud, and Spoofing. More details on each of these scams can be found in this report.

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Added: February 17, 2020
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Cisco 2018 Annual Cyber Security Report: At-a-Glance - Cloud Security

A focused subset of Cisco’s 2018 full Cyber Security Report, focusing on cloud security practices.

Added: February 17, 2020
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X-Force Threat Intelligence Index

X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) compiled IBM Security software and security services analyses from the past year, which show that 2019 was a year of reemerging old threats being used in new ways.

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Added: February 14, 2020
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2019 Threat Report

A long form narrative on several threat trends seen in recent months.

Added: February 14, 2020
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Cloud Threat Report: Putting the Sec in DevOps

2020 edition of the Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report, ourteam of elite cloud threat researchers focused theirattention on the practices of DevOps. The research aimedto uncover where cloud vulnerabilities are surfacing.DevOps teams are shortening the time to productionusing infrastructure as code (IaC) templates. But the IaCtemplates themselves are not the issue. It’s the flawedprocess by which they are being created.

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Added: February 14, 2020
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Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques: The 2019 State of Healthcare

In this special CTNT report on healthcare, wefocus on the top threat categories and familiesthat plagued the medical industry over the lastyear, as well as the most common attack methodsused by cybercriminals to penetrate healthcaredefenses. In addition, we highlight the securitychallenges inherent to organizations, from smallprivate practices to enterprise health maintenanceorganizations (HMOs), as well as the reasons whyhackers look to infiltrate their defenses. Finally,we look ahead to future biotech innovations andthe need to consider security in their design andimplementation.

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Added: February 12, 2020
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2nd Annual Penetration Risk Report 2019

This report covers penetration prevention in the last year. It covers changes in penetration prevention such as the levels of risk incurred by applications, the way the shift to the cloud affects risk, and how the size of the business affects risk.

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Added: February 12, 2020
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