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Cyber News Rundown: 2017 Year in Review
As 2017 comes to a close, we’re looking back at the 10 most significant (or simply the most devastating) cybersecurity stories of the year.
Check out the full list of attack, data breaches, and other security-related events.
10 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2018
It has been a turbulent year of devastating ransomware attacks (e.g. NotPetya) and gut-wrenching breaches (e.g. Equifax). Undoubtedly, the question on everyone’s mind is, “what’s in store for us in the New Year?”
Webroot’s top 10 cybersecurity predictions for 2018 covers everything from ransomware and breaches to mobile, cryptocurrency, and government.We’ve grouped our predictions to help you navigate this glimpse into one possible cybersecurity future.
See all 10 predictions.
Phishing Attacks on Bitcoin Wallets Intensify as Price Goes Higher and Higher
It was only natural that the Internet's cyber-criminal element would turn its gaze towards the Bitcoin ecosystem after the cryptocurrency's price has surged from $11,000 on Monday to almost $17,500 over the weekend.
During the past week, several phishing attempts against Bitcoin-related sites and Bitcoin users have been reported. For example, CheckPhish, a service that keeps track of recent phishing pages against high-profile brands, has spotted five phishing domains targeting the Blockchain wallet service, one of the largest on the market. In addition to the CheckPhish reports, several security researchers have also identified numerous others.
Learn more.
Poor USB security leaves enterprises at risk
Security policies for USB devices are frequently outdated and inadequate, and enterprises are often failing to monitor their use, according to a new survey.
Apricorn surveyed over 400 employees across a range of industries. It discovered that USB drives are seen as an important tool, with roughly 70 percent of employees surveyed maintaining that USB drives improve the efficiency of their organizations' IT operations and increase their productivity.
BetaNews has all the info.
Organizations Getting Better at Detecting Breaches: Report
Organizations have become slightly better at detecting cyber intrusions, but malicious actors are constantly working on improving their tactics and techniques, according to CrowdStrike’s 2017 Cyber Intrusion Services Casebook.
In more than one-third of attacks, hackers gained access to the targeted organization’s systems using web server, web application or web shell exploits, or file uploaders. Other commonly seen attack vectors were remote access via RDP or VPN (23%), supply chain compromise (12%), social engineering and phishing (11%), and cloud-based service exploits (11%).
Get all the details of the report.
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