Webinars

When dealing with Ransom and Ransomware there are a lot of considerations that are vital yet rarely discussed in preparations and defenses. Having worked with many incidents in the past, we want to discuss the common mistakes, caveats, and considerations that you should make before you are faced with the crisis. This essential knowledge may be the difference maker for your ability to successfully resolve even the most difficult situation. This is a common sense advice to advanced topics from practical experience.

When you go on the Internet you are surrounded by fraud. Detecting fraud is not easy and losses to sophisticated schemes are soaring. We will tackle a number of currently potent fraud techniques to show you the emerging trends and give you skills to detect and combat fraud with corporate defenses.

Let’s do something unusual, let’s go to the Dark Web and navigate it to see what are the practical threats are emerging every single day from the cyber criminals. We will take a step-by-step journey to introduce you to the current threat landscape using very specific recent examples. You do not need to be scared or impressed. You need to be informed. Let’s go!

There is an invisible war that we have been slowly losing to cyber crime on several fronts. Dynamics of ransom and ransomware changed significantly along with exploitation of the supply chain. If you think that we have threats figured out, think again. Join us for this in-depth review of emerging threats and innovative defences.

COVID-19 impacted us all in different ways. In certain ways it made us stronger and more resilient but in some cases it highlighted our weaknesses. In my world of cybersecurity, I see cybercriminals prospering and cyber security professionals are struggling to stay abreast. I want to share my experiences and advice on how to keep your cyber security team strong so it can rise to an occasion in times of crisis.

Every year tens of thousands of individuals are getting recruited by cybercriminals for legitimately looking jobs of reshipping clerks, accounting specialists, and many other positions. This year, due to the pandemic, these work-from-home jobs got a new level of legitimacy and unprecidented demand. We will examine current schemes for stolen goods re-shipment, charity scheming, money laundering, and more. What your organization should be aware of, how you are impacted, what you should be doing to stay ahead of this ever-changing networks of money and goods mules.

Many years ago we decided that protecting our data just behind username and password authentication is a bad idea. Yet today, we are still heavily relying only on this technology. And, in turn, cybercriminals rely on stolen credentials to enter our realm to wreak havoc. Let’s take a look at how your credentials are valued today, how they are stolen and abused. Then let’s discuss available safeguards including not only MFA but other viable defenses for our society that still holds on to its P@ssword1!

After the recent Twitter account compromise many questions come into focus about security of our social media and events leading to account takeovers. Our investigations of similar cryptocurrency schemes show a pattern of abuse of people’s trust. However, the current Twitter incident is significantly more than meets the eye. The magnitude and impact do not match the financial gains. Sophistication of the breach of high-profile accounts pales in comparison to a sophomoric monetization scheme.

We often don’t realize the full impact of cyber crime, which then relapses us into repeating the same mistakes. Even large companies do not completely understand how their data and services are being abused. I want to take you on a journey of observing credit card fraud and abuse from stealing a credit card to trafficking of stolen goods. Learning about these vectors of abuse will help you and your organization to mitigate a number of common attacks and abuses.

In August 2019, Hold Security ran a table top exercise with Wisconsin Ingragard focusing on potential electronic tampering of the 2020 Wisconsin elections by foreign influences. We leveraged our insights in identifying and reporting Russian interference during the 2016 US election to derive critical lessons. The results were fascinating and scary. In this session, we will focus on the 2020 US election through our unique cybersecurity perspective focusing on current events and technical understanding to analyze use of social media manipulations, civil unrest, disinformation campaigns, cyber attacks, and more.