🎋Jingle Bells with a Side of Cybersecurity News

Monthly Bulletin View Online Winter holidays - such a beautiful and joyful time for everyone! However, the holiday spirit can also be the perfect time for cybercriminals to trick your employees and deliver phishing emails, malware, or even ransomware, putting your company in jeopardy. Now that December has arrived, we feel like it's that time of the year when we need to have "the talk". Over the years, we have seen that cybercrime, in particular ransomware attacks, increase during the holiday season. As IT teams are usually short-staffed over Christmas and New Year's, organizations have their guards down, and for various seasonal reasons, December makes a perfect month for cybercriminals to strike and cause serious damage. The good news is that there are steps everyone can take to protect themselves this holiday season from cyber threats: never clicking on suspicious links or downloading attachments, using hard-to-guess passwords and MFA systems, having a solid contingency plan in place, keeping all systems up to date and scanning them for vulnerabilities regularly, and so on. However, November has also been an interesting month, so let's go ahead and take a look at the most intriguing occurrences: Cybersecurity Month in Review News Denmark: Most Cyber-Secure Country in the World Denmark is one of the most digitalized countries globally, with technologies used in the private and public sectors. Hence, it is also a target with a generous and attractive attack surface for threat actors. VENUS RANSOMWARE IS TARGETING HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS According to a warning issued last month by the HHS, healthcare businesses across the country are being targeted by Venus ransomware attacks. Malicious Extension Granted Hackers Remote Access to Google Chrome Researchers discovered a new Chrome browser botnet that uses malicious extensions to steal user credentials, record keystrokes, inject malicious JS code, and ads, and even perform DDoS attacks. Australia Forms a Team to Combat Cybercrime Australia's Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security declared in an interview that they are not going to sit back while the citizens of Australia are treated this way by cyber criminals. CYBERSECURITY BASICS DNS Best Practices: How to Prevent Privilege Escalation Attacks? As cyber threats become more sophisticated, enterprises need to make sure they implement adequate security measures to stay one step ahead of the malicious actors. Check out this article and discover some of the best practices for preventing privilege escalation attacks. Heimdal® Launches Broad Investigation into Russian Cybercrime Trend Heimdal has recently launched an ample investigation into the Russia-linked cybercrime wave. Based on the data gathered from internal and external sources, Heimdal has discovered that the phenomenon is expanding, both in magnitude and frequency. MAJOR EVENTS IN NOVEMBER Heimdal® Announces Revolutionary New Product The product will empower security leaders and teams with an advanced threat-centric view of their entire IT landscape with granular telemetry to enable swift decision-making using built-in hunting and remediation capabilities – all managed from a single unified platform. Heimdal® Recognized as Top Cybersecurity Software by Software Advice in 2022 Last month, we announced that Heimdal® Threat Prevention has been recognized as a Top Cybersecurity Software in Software Advice's latest FrontRunners report, earning an incredible overall rating of 4.8 (out of 5). New video on YouTube – Intermittent Encryption Check out our newest video focusing on intermittent encryption, a new technique that makes it easier for threat actors to avoid discovery and corrupt victims' files more quickly. Most Inspiring Women In Cyber Awards 2022 We are happy to share that one of Heimdal's many fantastic women, Adelina Deaconu (XDR Powered SOC Team Lead), has been nominated by IT Security Guru for the Most Inspiring Women In Cyber Awards 2022 Heimdal® Threat Prevention Named Emerging Favorite in Capterra Shortlist For Cybersecurity Software 2022 We are proud to announce the mention of our Threat Prevention solution as an Emerging Favorite in the 2022 Shortlist for Cybersecurity Software by Capterra, a free online service that helps organizations find the right software. COMING SOON... The Resilient End of Year Review: A glimpse of 2023 with Heimdal's CEO Have you ever wanted to ask a cybersecurity company CEO a few questions, or even have a short debate on topics related to the current cyberthreat landscape? You'll be happy to hear that Heimdal's December webinar will focus on this exact point: a fireside chat with our CEO, Morten Kjaersgaard. Save your seat here. Tell us more about yourself and help us provide you with quality content that best fits your needs and interests. FILL OUT THE FORM →

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