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How business email compromise attacks emulate legitimate web services to lure clicks

Tech Republic Security

New BEC cyberattacks use phishing with a legitimate Dropbox link as a lure for malware and credentials theft. The post How business email compromise attacks emulate legitimate web services to lure clicks appeared first on TechRepublic.

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More than one-third of cloud environments are critically exposed, says Tenable

Network World

It cited the MGM Resorts data breach, the Microsoft email hack, and the FBot malware targeting web servers, cloud services, and software-as-a-service, which achieves persistency and propagates on AWS via AWS IAM (identity and access management) users as three examples of how the keys could be abused.

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AWS Used By Bad Guys: SolarWinds Hackers Used Elastic Compute Cloud

CTOvision

Amazon Web Services admitted Thursday that hackers used its systems in the SolarWinds campaign but reiterated the cloud computing giant wasn’t itself infected with malware. The actors used EC2 [Amazon Elastic […].

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Amazon Web Services bans accounts linked with Pegasus spyware

The Verge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has banned NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware program. When we learned of this activity, we acted quickly to shut down the relevant infrastructure and accounts,” an Amazon Web Services spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. AWS wasn’t the only service NSO apparently used.

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Why Multi-Factor Authentication is Key to Modern Cybersecurity

CIO Business Intelligence

And if their device has been infiltrated by malware? Rocket’s MFA solutions do this by providing web service APIs that allow secure and simple integration with MFA server functionality, enabling the solution to integrate with terminal emulators and other applications within the mainframe. It’s trusted, too.

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Buyer’s guide: Data protection for hybrid clouds

Network World

Here are the key factors driving the need for data protection platforms in hybrid environments: Ransomware: Unlike other forms of malware designed to bring down the network, ransomware attacks specifically target data. And 80% of enterprises have adopted a hybrid computing model.

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Microsoft says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded

The Verge

It also exceeds the peak traffic volume of 2.3Tbps, the previous largest attack, which was directed at Amazon Web Services last year. DDoS attacks are typically used to force websites or services offline, thanks to a flood of traffic that a web host can’t handle. Image: Microsoft.

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