CyberSecurity in the News

CyberSecurity in the News Articles

“Akamai Explores the Present Ransomware Scenario”(2023), the first quarter of 2023 Akamai’s report refers to the new trend of extorting and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities used by ransomware hackers. The groups of victims include the companies associated with the manufacturing sector and financial sphere. The analysis is supported by statistical data, demonstrating how the number of victims has risen within the last six months. The report provides comparative data about ransomware groups’ activity in different sectors. The key measures that organizations must take to prevent cyber threat incidents, in particular, network segmentation and managing vulnerabilities (“Akamai Explores the Present Ransomware Scenario”, 2023).

The content was published by a team of Hacker News presenting analytics of the newest trends in the field of cybersecurity. The material was located in the Cyware Social web resource that provides an analysis of Cyware products and threats. The date of publication, 11 August 2023, shows the relevance of the material, and reference to Akamai’s latest report provides accuracy of presented facts. The article's purpose and objectivity correspond to the requirements of the analytical research.

The article “Fenix Cybercrime Group Poses as Tax Authorities to Target Latin American Users" (2023) is devoted to the issues of phishing scams. The mechanism of cyber scams is based on uploading fake security tools. The target auditory of cybercrimes includes taxpayers in Mexico and Chile. The phishing operation differs from previous options by redirecting users to the cloned official portals in Mexico and Chile to get access to sensitive data such as credentials and crypto wallets (“Fenix Cybercrime Group Poses as Tax Authorities to Target Latin American Users,” 2023).. Since the vulnerable web resources become the targets of Fenix scam tools, to avoid and prevent cyber threats it is reasonable to control the websites and applications providing monetization, typosquatted domains, etc. (Vayansky, & Kumar, 2018).

The article was presented by online security/ malware analytics on the website The Hackers News specialized in cybersecurity issues. The material was published on July 26, 2023, which shows its relevance. Facts' accuracy is supported by statistics, and data referring to the latest Metabase Q's researchers - Corona and Vidal. The purpose and objectivity of the article are supported by an analysis of the current challenges of phishing scams. 

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