Plus: Samsung launches a new security feature that protects users from malware-infected image files
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Google has stated that the number of Russian cyberattacks against Ukraine is increasing at an alarming rate. The tech giant claims there has been a 250% increase. More: - According to security researchers, there have been more cyber attacks launched against Ukraine during the first four months of 2022 than in the previous eight years.
- Most of these cyber attacks were launched at the beginning of the Russian invasion military campaign.
- The number of phishing attacks targeting NATO countries increased by 300% during the same period.
- Researchers stated that regardless of the many cyberattacks that Russia has launched, it has failed to bring down Ukraine's digital infrastructure so far.
- Some of the key actors involved in the efforts include
- Sandworm,
- APT28,
- COLDRIVER,
- FROZENVISTA,
- UAC-0098,
- TrickBot, etc.
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Law enforcement in France and Israel have arrested members of a hacker group, seizing over $40.5M in the process. The group breached French citizens. More: - The hacker group used business email compromise as a threat vector.
- The group's leader was located in Israel.
- Investigations showed that the hacker group had accomplices in Croatia, Portugal, and Hungary who tried to launder the money by depositing it in local banks.
- The funds were laundered in Europe and China before being sent to Israel.
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Twitter has announced that SMS two-factor authentication is now available only for Twitter Blue subscribers. More: - The company stated that users who have not subscribed to Blue that use SMS-based 2FA have time until March 20, 2023, to switch to an alternative method.
- According to Twitter, only 2.6% of all active accounts have enabled at least one form of 2FA.
- SMS authentication makes up 74.4% of these accounts.
- Authenticator apps are second at 28.9%, with security keys at 0.5%.
- Accounts can have multiple forms of 2FA enabled at one time.
- SMS-based 2FA authentication is considered the least secure method of MFA, a sentiment that Twitter's CEO Elon Musk has also shared publically.
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Samsung has launched a new security feature that protects users from malware-infected image files. The feature will be named Samsung Message Guard. More: - Samsung Message Guard checks the file bit by bit and processes it in a controlled environment to ensure it cannot infect the rest of your device.
- If the file is deemed harmless, it is then allowed to be accessed normally by the user. If not, it is disposed of.
- Samsung Message Guard runs silently and largely invisibly in the background and does not need to be activated by the user.
- The feature is currently being rolled out on Galaxy S23 series devices.
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Microsoft has launched a watermarking feature for Azure Virtual Desktop. Only clients that support watermarking can connect to the session host. More: - Users will be able to identify themselves by scanning a QR code.
- The feature is not accessible remotely for security reasons.
- If connected to a session host directly using the Remote Desktop Connection app (mstsc.exe), watermarking is not applied.
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- Lenovo is reportedly going to invest at least seven figures in establishing the Lenovo Cybersecurity Innovation Center in cooperation with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.
- Fraud prevention cybersecurity company Autohost has raised a pre-seed funding round. The round was led by Mistral Venture Partners.
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