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Enterprises Remain Riddled With Overprivileged Users -- and Attackers Know It Attackers commonly focus on finding users with too much privileged access as their ticket to network compromise. What can companies do? Recent breaches have underscored the dangers of overprivileged user accounts and software processes, highlighting the need for companies to discover and mitigate the privileged accounts that could be used by attackers to further compromise important systems and applications.  Last month, the breach of an administrative account at video service provider Verkada left the firm's custo...

CISA Orders Agencies to Recheck for Exchange Compromises Twitter Get Permission The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is ordering federal executive branch agencies to rescan and recheck their networks by Monday for any signs of compromise related to unpatched vulnerabilities in on-premises Microsoft Exchange email servers. In addition, the agencies have until June 28 to implement CISA's recommended steps to harden their infrastructure against attacks. Exchange Server Flaws Microsoft patched the four vulnerabilities in the on-premises version of Exchange Server on March 2. Aro...

Global Survey Finds 71% of Cloud Users Suffered on Average Seven Malicious Account Takeovers in Last Year Vectra AI released its global survey of 1,112 security professionals working in mid to large sized organizations using Microsoft Office 365. The results confirm that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud migration and digital transformation amongst 88% of companies and that 71% of Microsoft Office 365 deployments have suffered an account takeover of a legitimate user’s account, not once, but on average seven times in the last year. The fact that 3 in 4 companies have experienc...

71 percent of Office 365 users suffer malicious account takeovers New research from network detection and response company Vectra AI shows that 88 percent of companies have accelerated their cloud and digital transformation projects due to COVID-19. But it also finds that 71 percent of Microsoft Office 365 deployments have suffered an account takeover of a legitimate user's account, not just once, but on average seven times in the last year. Worryingly only one in three security professionals believe they could identify and stop an account takeover attack immediately, the majority expecting t...

'); //]]>//--> By Jack M. Germain Feb 16, 2021 5:00 AM PT Some cybersecurity experts agree with a report by Cybersecurity Ventures and expect financial damages from cybercrime to reach $6 trillion by the end of this year. Industry studies show that cyberattacks are among the fastest-growing crimes in the United States. Cyberattacks are absolutely on the rise. Based on everything we know and every single analyst we have spoken with, there is no doubt that attacks are increasing, according to Robert McKay, senior vice president, risk solutions at Neustar. "Cybersecurity experts predict that in ...