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Typically used to steal money, BEC involves threat actors compromising email accounts at target companies and then targeting employees in charge of making payments with fraudulent emails that instruct them to wire transfer large amounts of money to bank accounts controlled by the attackers. In the attacks targeting the food and agriculture sector, however, the […]

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In a November 14 post on the Full Disclosure mailing list, the researcher said they had been in contact with the vendor, but claimed they did not receive a satisfactory response within a given timeframe. “As the attack complexity is low and exploits have already been published by a third party there must be no […]

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The protocol used by Microsoft for email encryption has a weakness that can leak information meant to stay secret, warns cybersecurity company WithSecure. Electronic Code Book encrypts repeated blocks of information with the same ciphertext – meaning that in the supposedly impenetrable gibberish encryption uses to protect information from prying eyes, patterns may emerge. “You […]

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