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WEEKLY CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER NO: 199
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1- 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2022
No one could have predicted the sheer chaos the cybersecurity industry would experience over the course of 2021. Record-annihilating numbers of ransomware attacks, SolarWinds’ supply-chain havoc and most recently, the discovery of Log4j by…Minecraft gamers. All of it would have sounded too wild for …
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2- That Toy You Got for Christmas Could Be Spying on You
Many adults found it charming when Mattel upgraded its classic Fisher-Price Chatter telephone for its 60th anniversary in October with actual Bluetooth capabilities, so grownups, too, can use it — and for actual mobile phone calls.
But flaws in the way the toy pairs with Bluetooth means that other p…
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3- Global Cyberattacks from Nation-State Actors Posing Greater Threats
The macro-trend I’m most alarmed by today is the fact that attackers don’t seem to care about getting caught anymore. We have seen an increase in temerity of attacks by nation-states, such as the Russian attack on SolarWinds, and seen their attack tactics shift from targeted, stealthy operations int…
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4- Threat Advisory: E-commerce Bots Use Domain Registration Services for Mass Account Fraud
While researching a recent large-scale bot campaign with CQ Prime Threat Research team lead, Dean Lendrum, we found attackers using domain parking and monetization services to register multiple domains, creating a large number of fake eCommerce accounts per domain.
TL; DR
Analysis of shopping-bot c…
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