{"id":4584,"date":"2023-11-17T18:03:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T05:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/2023\/11\/17\/news20231117\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:35:34","slug":"news20231117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/2023\/11\/17\/news20231117\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent news &#8211; November 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What&#8217;s been happening recently in our areas of interest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DP World Australia, a port operator in Australia, suffered a cyberattack that forced it to limit access to ports in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Fremantle for several days. Key incident response focus: (1) prioritize sensitive inbound freight (e.g.,stuff in the real world that perishes), and (2) determine the effect on its systems and data. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-11-11\/australian-authorities-meet-as-dp-world-shuts-ports-on-cyber-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IRONSCALES released the Fall 2023 update of its email security platform, with an emphasis on fighting image-based and QR code attacks that bypass text analysis. Internal data shows a 215% increase in phishing emails that incorporate images over the past six months. There are new automated simulation capabilities, too. <a href=\"https:\/\/ironscales.com\/company\/news-awards\/news\/ironscales-expands-platform-capabilities-to-fight-qr-code-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IRONSCALES<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>KnowBe4 published a new report on security behaviors of workers in the UK. Findings: attentiveness to cybersecurity concerns varies throughout the day, responding to emails while on a bio-break is a thing, and a  distracted worker is more likely to click on a suspicious link. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowbe4.com\/press\/more-than-4-in-5-workers-exhibit-poor-security-behaviours-knowbe4-tapped-out-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KnowBe4<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Egress released an integration with KnowBe&#8217;s Adaptive Security models, so that Egress users are automatically enrolled in role-relevant and risk-level appropriate training based on the threats arriving in their inbox. The intent: &#8220;<em>individualized security coaching that drives behavioral change and reduces overall risk<\/em>.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.egress.com\/partners\/integrations\/knowbe4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Egress<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A firm in New Zealand experienced an attempted BEC scam that included a deepfake video call in Microsoft Teams, although the scam emphasized the video lookalike only, not the voice soundalike. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/mind-blowing-sophistication-zuru-cfo-targeted-by-deepfake-video-version-of-his-boss-nick-mowbray-on-teams-call\/VZ4HTFFU6BD2HEPCBP6QTQQCY4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NZ Herald<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s been happening recently in our areas of interest, with news re DP World Australia, IRONSCALES, KnowBe4, Egress and KnowBe4, and a deepfake BEC scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384585,"featured_media":4759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[712027501],"tags":[712027529],"class_list":["post-4584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-roundup","tag-whats-going-down"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/news202311.jpg?fit=1100%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcHAk4-1bW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}