Cybersecurity Impact on CPA Firms Cybersecurity is a critical issue for businesses and organizations of all sizes and industries, and the accounting profession is no exception. In today’s digital age, sensitive financial data and information are increasingly at risk of being compromised by cybercriminals who seek to steal valuable data, commit fraud, or cause disruption …
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A new hacker identified as TA886 targets organizations in the US and Germany with the new custom malware tool “Screenshotter” to perform surveillance and data theft on infected systems. According to BleepingComputer, the previously unknown cluster of activity was first discovered by the US-based security firm Proofpoint in October 2022. The hacker appears to be …
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Hackers believed to work for Russia have started using a new code execution technique that relies on mouse movement in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to trigger a malicious PowerShell script. No malicious macro is necessary for the malicious code to execute and download the payload, for a more insidious attack. A report from threat intelligence company …
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*Alert*: Sniper Watch C3 – Inadequate cybersecurity posture continues to be a major leading cause to continued data breaches, disruption, and dismantling of corporate operations. In 2021, thousands of new cybersecurity incidents have been recorded and cyberattacks are continuing to rise. Cybersecurity insurance premiums are skyrocketing and most organizations are not properly protected from these …
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Attack The user names and passwords of Tokyo 2020 ticket holders and event volunteers were reportedly compromised, but government official claims the data leak was not large. The official told Kyodo news agency on condition of anonymity that the stolen credentials could be used to log on to websites for volunteers and ticket holders, compromising …
Clothing retailer Guess suffered a ransomware attack and data breach earlier this year that exposed personal information for an unspecified number of individuals. As Bleeping Computer first reported, citing a data breach notification letter issued by Guess to 1,304 affected Maine residents, Guess says criminal hackers accessed its systems from approximately Feb. 2 to Feb. 23 and that the …
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Collected data makes it easier for spammers, phishers and stalkers Data scraped from about 700 million LinkedIn profiles — more than 90% of the entire declared LinkedIn member base — is being offered for sale in an online cybercrime marketplace. The data includes full names, workplace email addresses, dates of birth, workplace addresses, mobile phone …
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The value of cryptocurrencies has fluctuated wildly, but the value is still high enough to garner a lot of attention, both legitimate and malicious. Most of the malicious activity we see is done for financial gain, and cryptocurrencies have provided attackers with a lucrative new avenue to pursue: cryptocurrency mining. Over the past year, we …
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The N.S.A.’s tools were most likely more useful than FireEye’s since the U.S. government builds purpose-made digital weapons. FireEye’s Red Team tools are essentially built from malware that the company has seen used in a wide range of attacks. Still, the advantage of using stolen weapons is that nation-states can hide their own tracks when …
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A key malicious domain name used to control potentially thousands of computer systems compromised via the months-long breach at network monitoring software vendor SolarWinds was commandeered by security experts and used as a “killswitch” designed to turn the sprawling cybercrime operation against itself, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds disclosed this week that a compromise of its …
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