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Phishing Attacks and Social Engineering: Recognizing the Signs and Preventing Exploitation

In today's digitally connected world, cybersecurity is no longer optional—it's a necessity. At Inception Security, we know that the only...

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Understanding the Dark Web: What Every Business Owner Needs to Know

The Dark Web can be daunting and mysterious, often associated with criminal activity and hidden dangers. As a business owner, it's...

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Play Ransomware Group

The Play ransomware group has been making headlines recently due to its use of a new method to exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft...

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Forensic Friday - Jump Lists

What are Jump Lists? Jump Lists are windows features introduced with Windows 7, and they contain information about recently accessed...

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Cyber Insurance Benefits

What is Cyber Insurance? A cyber insurance policy is commonly called "cyber risk insurance" or "cyber liability insurance" coverage. It...

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Forensic Friday - Profile Lists

What are Profile Lists? Windows keeps track of user-profiles and their locations in the registry. The profile location is stored under...

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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR or BC/DR) is a collection of processes and procedures that assist a company in recovering...

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Forensic Friday - Prefetch

What is Windows Prefetch? Windows Prefetch creates files when a user opens an application on a Windows host. The Windows Operating system...

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Emotet Changing Techniques

Phishing attacks remain the number one technique used in cyberattacks. Some of the most common phishing attacks leveraged attachments to...

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Spring4Shell

A critical vulnerability CVE-2022-22965 (Spring4Shell or SpringShell) was found on March 29, 2022, in an open-source Java framework while...

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RPC Vulnerability (CVE-2022-26809)

On patch Tuesday, April 12, 2022, Microsoft released patches for CVE-2022-26809. A vulnerability that is a zero-click exploit targeting...

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Cyberattacks On The Rise

As we look across the landscape, we see that cyberattacks continue to succeed in all business sectors. In the cases we have observed, the...

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Importance of EDR

Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) A critical task for most organizations has become setting up advanced threat protection as...

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What is Qbot / Qakbot

QBot, also known as Qakbot or pinkslipbot, is an information stealer that has been active since 2007. It is malware software that can...

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An Encounter with Pandora

Pandora ransomware came into the spotlight in March of 2022 after posting some high-profile victims on its leak site. The ransomware...

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How are your Backups?

Producing and preserving copies of data to safeguard businesses against data loss is referred to as backup and recovery. The data from...

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Lessons Learned from Conti leaks

A Russian-based Conti Ransomware gang chat leak has started a new debate. The massive chat leak from inside has provided a clearer...

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5 Reasons you should not pay ransomware attackers

Ransomware is the type of suspicious software Cybercriminals use to encrypt your data, rendering it unusable. As a result, the attackers...

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What is Incident Response?

Incident response is a method for dealing with various forms of security events, cyber threats, and data breaches in an organized manner....

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Proxyshell Vulnerabilities

In Microsoft Exchange, the three known vulnerabilities that threat actors use to get initial access are often referred to collectively as...

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