The EUs Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires major tech companies to make their products more open and interoperable in order to increase competition. Thanks to the DMA, iOS will soon permit third-party app stores to be installed on it, and major messaging platforms will need to allow communication with other similar show more ...
Episode 343 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast begins with news that Instagram is testing a tool to help tackle sextortion, or intimate image abuse. Following that, the team discuss how criminals are increasingly using A.I to defraud consumers out of their money. The last two stories look at X and ransomware. The show more ...
It turns out that a powerful security solution can double as even more powerful malware, capable of granting comprehensive access over a targeted machine.
Airbnb's Allyn Stott recommends adding the Human Maturity Model (HMM) and the SABRE framework to complement MITRE ATT&CK to improve security metrics analysis.
The local phone and business communications company said that attackers accessed unspecified PII, after infiltrating its internal networks.
The tech giant tosses together a word salad of today's business drivers — AI, cloud-native, digital twins — and describes a comprehensive security strategy for the future, but can the company build the promised platform?
SecOps highlights this week include the executive role in "cyber readiness;" Cisco's Hypershield promise; and Middle East cyber ops heat up.
Securing the presidential election requires vigilance and hardened cybersecurity defenses.
Malformed DOS paths in file-naming nomenclature in Windows could be used to conceal malicious content, files, and processes.
CryptoChameleon attackers trade quantity for quality, dedicating time and resources to trick even the most diligent user into handing over their high-value credentials.
A ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack, though it is unknown if a ransom was demanded or paid.
Chinese actors are ready and poised to do "devastating" damage to key US infrastructure services if needed, he said.
A new banking Trojan is targeting Korean users using obfuscation techniques that target the Android manifest, exploit vulnerabilities and take advantage of weaknesses in how Android apps interpret this file.
Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant is an open-source project that allows developers to learn to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in their code through an interactive game.
Researchers at the intelligence unit at the cybersecurity firm Sophos found 19 ransomware varieties being offered for sale or advertised as under development on four forums from June 2023 to February 2024.
Trust in cybersecurity tools has become one of the biggest challenges facing critical national infrastructure (CNI) providers as sophisticated nation-state attacks proliferate, according to a new report from Bridewell.
According to a joint advisory from the FBI, CISA, Europol's EC3, and the Netherlands' NCSC-NL, the Akira ransomware operation has breached the networks of over 250 organizations and raked in roughly $42 million in ransom payments.
Could a hacker seize control of America's dams, unleashing floods and chaos across vulnerable communities? Cybersecurity analysts and leading lawmakers warn it's possible.
A legitimate-looking Google Search advertisement for the crypto trading platform 'Whales Market' redirects visitors to a wallet-draining phishing site that steals all of your assets.
The figures come from the latest Egress report, which also suggests a notable decrease in attachment-based payloads, which halved from 72.7% to 35.7% over the same period.
That downward trend comes thanks to "enterprises large and small" being "increasingly able to withstand an encryption attack, and restore their operations without the need for a threat actor decryption key," Coveware said.
Select Ukrainian government networks have remained infected with a malware called OfflRouter since 2015. "The documents contained VBA code to drop and run an executable with the name 'ctrlpanel.exe,'" security researcher Vanja Svajcer said.
Most industries continue to run almost two or more months behind in patching software vulnerabilities, endpoints remain vulnerable to threats, and most enterprise PCs must be replaced to support AI-based technologies, according to a new report.
The attacker combines multiple social engineering techniques that involve contacting the potential victim (voice phishing) and pretending to be a LastPass employee trying to help with securing the account following unauthorized access.
The guidance offers a wide range of best practices, including that organizations adopt a zero trust mindset, actively monitor the AI model’s behavior, and require the primary developer of the AI system to provide a threat model for their system.
A rise in infostealer malware attacks over the past three years has enabled cybercriminal groups to turn credential stealing into a major money-making business, paving the way for new entrants in the field and sophisticated hacking techniques.
The guidance document details the latest tactics employed in foreign malign influence operations to shape U.S. policies, decisions, and discourse and could be used to target America’s election infrastructure.
A new info-stealing malware linked to Redline poses as a game cheat called 'Cheat Lab,' promising downloaders a free copy if they convince their friends to install it too.
Government entities in the Middle East have been targeted as part of a previously undocumented campaign to deliver a new backdoor dubbed CR4T. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said it discovered the activity in February 2024, with evidence suggesting that it may have been active since at least a year prior. The campaign has been codenamed
Attackers are increasingly making use of “networkless” attack techniques targeting cloud apps and identities. Here’s how attackers can (and are) compromising organizations – without ever needing to touch the endpoint or conventional networked systems and services. Before getting into the details of the attack techniques being used, let’s discuss why
Threat actors behind the Akira ransomware group have extorted approximately $42 million in illicit proceeds after breaching the networks of more than 250 victims as of January 1, 2024. "Since March 2023, Akira ransomware has impacted a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure entities in North America, Europe, and Australia," cybersecurity agencies from the Netherlands and the U.S.,
Technology, research, and government sectors in the Asia-Pacific region have been targeted by a threat actor called BlackTech as part of a recent cyber attack wave. The intrusions pave the way for an updated version of modular backdoor dubbed Waterbear as well as its enhanced successor referred to as Deuterbear. "Waterbear is known for its complexity, as it
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Source: www.bitdefender.com – Author: Graham Cluley February’s crippling ransomware attack against Change Healthcare, which saw prescription orders delayed across the United States, continues to have serious consequences. The cybercriminal group RansomHub published a portion of what it claims to be the show more ...
Source: www.exponential-e.com – Author: Graham Cluley The international hotel chain Omni Hotels & Resorts has confirmed that a cyberattack last month saw it shut down its systems, with hackers stealing personal information about its customers. In the aftermath of the attack, hotel guests reported that they show more ...
Source: www.tripwire.com – Author: Graham Cluley Police have successfully infiltrated and disrupted the fraud platform “LabHost”, used by more than 2,000 criminals to defraud victims worldwide. A major international operation, led by the UK’s Metropolitan Police, has seized control of LabHost, show more ...
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley Take That’s Gary Barlow chats up a pizza-slinging granny from Essex via Facebook, or does he? And a scam takes a sinister turn – for both the person being scammed and an innocent participant – in Ohio. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Bill Toulas A new info-stealing malware linked to Redline poses as a game cheat called ‘Cheat Lab,’ promising downloaders a free copy if they convince their friends to install it too. Redline is a powerful information-stealing malware capable of show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan American telecom provider Frontier Communications is restoring systems after a cybercrime group breached some of its IT systems in a recent cyberattack. Frontier is a leading U.S. communications provider that provides gigabit Internet speeds over a show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Bill Toulas The Hospital Simone Veil in Cannes (CHC-SV) has announced that it was targeted by a cyberattack on Tuesday morning, severely impacting its operations and forcing staff to go back to pen and paper. CHC-SV is an important medical establishment in France, show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan According to a joint advisory from the FBI, CISA, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), and the Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL), the Akira ransomware operation has breached the networks of over 250 organizations show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Lawrence Abrams A legitimate-looking Google Search advertisement for the crypto trading platform ‘Whales Market’ redirects visitors to a wallet-draining phishing site that steals all of your assets. Whales Market is a decentralized OTC trading platform show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan A preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024, a volume-licensed and perpetual version of Office for commercial customers, is now available for Windows and macOS users. This Microsoft Office Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) commercial preview comes with the show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Bill Toulas LastPass is warning of a malicious campaign targeting its users with the CryptoChameleon phishing kit that is associated with cryptocurrency theft. CryptoChameleon is an advanced phishing kit that was spotted earlier this year, targeting Federal show more ...
Source: www.databreachtoday.com – Author: 1 Cybercrime , Finance & Banking , Fraud Management & Cybercrime New Malware SoumniBot Exploiting Legitimate Android Process Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • April 18, 2024 Image: Shutterstock A new banking Trojan is targeting Korean users using show more ...
Source: www.databreachtoday.com – Author: 1 Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Experts See Groups Shoot Themselves in the Foot by Yet Again Swindling Affiliates Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 18, 2024 Fewer victims are paying extortion demanded by ransomware groups, says Coveware. show more ...
Source: www.databreachtoday.com – Author: 1 Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , Ransomware Christopher Budd on the Rise of Junk Gun Ransomware Variants Christopher Budd • April 18, 2024 Since June 2023, Sophos X-Ops has discovered 19 junk gun show more ...
Source: www.cyberdefensemagazine.com – Author: Stevin By Roger Spears, Schneider Downs Whenever the new year rolls around, resolutions—to achieve a goal, improve a behavior or continue good practices—abound. And, while many resolutions center personal goals such as fitness or financial goals, the increased show more ...
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Joao Correia PHP Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) allows you to continue using older versions of PHP while still receiving security updates for the language, without introducing breaking changes to your application. The first and obvious question might be, “Why would I show more ...
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Wajahat Raja In light of cookie stealing attacks and to ensure Chrome browser protection, Google has recently piloted its new Chrome DBSC. The device-bound session credentials (DBSC) are aimed at protecting users against cookie theft that threat actors may carry out using show more ...
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Shmuel Cohen Endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions have become a key component of many enterprise endpoint security strategies, resulting in a forecasted market value close to $17 billion by 2030. This is due in no small part to the increase in remote work show more ...
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Max Aulakh The world advances based on innovation, and innovation can come from anywhere. The trouble is that the current capitalist economic system encourages large corporations to play conservatively with their products and their budgets while working to secure their show more ...
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Nathan Eddy The number of AI-related Zero Days has tripled since November 2023, according to the latest findings from Protect AI’s huntr community of over 15,000 maintainers and security researchers. In April 2024 alone, a whopping 48 vulnerabilities have already been show more ...
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Headlines about ransomware in recent years have focused on the most prolific gangs like LockBit, BlackCat, and Cl0p and the rise of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), where affiliates pay a fee to use ransomware developed by another group and share the money show more ...
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: AJ Starita When looking for sensitive information and other valuable assets, attackers rarely access their target directly. Instead, they find vulnerabilities in other components and use them to weave through the system and escalate privileges where they can. Because show more ...
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Marc Handelman Security Bloggers Network Home » Security Bloggers Network » USENIX Security ’23 – NRDelegationAttack: Complexity DDoS attack on DNS Recursive Resolvers by Marc Handelman on April 18, 2024 Authors/Presenters: *Yehuda Afek and Anat Bremler-Barr, show more ...
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Aaron Linskens The latest webinar in Sonatype’s DevOps Download series, presented in partnership with The New Stack, offered an in-depth exploration into how DevOps pioneers are catalyzing significant shifts within organizations. *** This is a Security Bloggers Network show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Dark Reading Staff 1 Min Read The UN City building located in Copenhagen, DenmarkSource: BERK OZDEMIR via Alamy Stock Photo The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) became the victim of a cyberattack in late March, which also impacted the IT infrastructure of the show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer Source: II.studio via Shutterstock A highly sophisticated phishing campaign may have led some LastPass users to give up their all-important master passwords to hackers. Password managers store all of a user’s passwords — for show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Jeffrey Schwartz, Contributing Writer Source: Dzmitry Skazau via Alamy Stock Photo Sorting the false positives from the true positives: Ask any security operations center (SOC) professional, and they’ll tell you it’s one of the most challenging aspects of show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Shawn Henry Shawn Henry, Chief Security Officer, CrowdStrike April 19, 2024 3 Min Read Source: thinkx2 via Alamy Stock Photo COMMENTARY Foreign adversaries have attempted to disrupt the US elections for years through various methods. This includes espionage and “hack show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Tara Seals, Managing Editor, News, Dark Reading Source: Robert Adrian Hillman via Alamy Stock Vector BLACK HAT ASIA – Singapore – A known issue associated with the DOS-to-NT path conversion process in Windows opens up significant risk for businesses by allowing show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Dark Reading Staff 1 Min Read A blue whale breaching out of the oceanSource: Kerry Hargrove via Alamy Stock Photo Texas-based Frontier Communications, which provides local residential and business telecom services in 25 states, has shut down its operations in the wake of a show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer Source: Maurice Norbert via Alamy Stock Photo A creative exploit of Palo Alto Networks’ extended detection and response (XDR) software could have allowed attackers to puppet it like a malicious multitool. In a briefing at Black Hat show more ...
Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer Source: Peach Shutterstock via Shutterstock The cybersecurity industry has no shortage of problems: Attackers are using automation to shorten their time to exploit, patching software is burdensome, establishing defenses such as segmentation show more ...
