Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
16 January 2024
A report found that 68% of IT workers feel overwhelmed by the number of technical resources that are required to access the data they need to work.
16 January 2024
The U.S. Secret Service executed a seizure warrant to recover $34,000 stolen through a fake Norton antivirus renewal email scam. The scam tricked victims into granting remote access to their computers, and then transferring money from their accounts.
16 January 2024
The scheme involved phishing pages to trick users into connecting their wallets with the attackers' infrastructure, resulting in over $87 million in illicit profits from more than 137,000 victims.
16 January 2024
OAuth attacks are on the rise, and organizations must implement strong access controls, fortify identity security for user accounts, and monitor third-party app activity to prevent unauthorized access to SaaS resources.
16 January 2024
According to the Allianz Risk Barometer, cyber incidents (ransomware, data breaches and IT disruptions) are the top global concern of 2024.
16 January 2024
A cloud services firm returned patient data stolen in a ransomware attack by the LockBit gang to a New York hospital alliance. The hospitals had sued LockBit as a legal maneuver to force the storage firm to return the data.
16 January 2024
The evolution of phishing techniques, including the use of advanced AI-driven tools, has led to a surge in highly personalized and convincing phishing attacks, posing a significant challenge to traditional email security solutions.
16 January 2024
The National Defense Industrial Strategy focuses on resilient supply chains, workforce readiness, flexible acquisitions, and economic deterrence to improve defense industrial ecosystem.
16 January 2024
Over 178,000 SonicWall firewalls exposed over the internet are exploitable to at least one of the two security flaws that could be potentially exploited to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition and remote code execution (RCE).
“The two issues are fundamentally the same but exploitable at different HTTP URI paths due to reuse of a vulnerable code pattern,” Jon Williams, a senior security
16 January 2024
The remote access trojan (RAT) known as Remcos RAT has been found being propagated via webhards by disguising it as adult-themed games in South Korea.
WebHard, short for web hard drive, is a popular online file storage system used to upload, download, and share files in the country.
While webhards have been used in the past to deliver njRAT, UDP RAT, and DDoS botnet malware, the
16 January 2024
The Russia-affiliated hacktivist group, Anonymous Sudan, claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the London Internet Exchange (LINX) as a response to Britain's support for Israel and airstrikes on Yemen.
16 January 2024
The threat actor 'wangfei19860902055' advertised the sale of a database related to Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) on the dark web, containing 552,900 records with personal information. GEICO has not officially confirmed the breach.
16 January 2024
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16 January 2024
Attackers can exploit these vulnerabilities to force affected firewalls into maintenance mode, impacting their standard functionality and VPN access to corporate networks.
16 January 2024
Tsurugi Linux offers a user-friendly interface with a logical sequence of forensic analysis tools, including support for live forensics, post-mortem analysis, digital evidence acquisition, malware analysis, OSINT, and computer vision activities.
16 January 2024
The LockBit ransomware group has targeted two new victims, Maisons de l’Avenir in France and Shinwa Co in Japan, with a deadline set for February 4, 2024, raising concerns due to the disparate geographical locations of the targeted companies.
16 January 2024
The new National Cyber Director Harry Coker said that the White House intends “to reduce unnecessary barriers” federal contractors face in filling cybersecurity jobs, like requirements for four-year college degrees.
16 January 2024
The surge in activity was attributed to the use of cheap or free cloud and hosting servers by attackers to create botnet launch pads. These new botnets focused on scanning global internet ports and showed signs of potential email server exploits.
16 January 2024
The Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy at the State Department is facing challenges in clarifying roles and responsibilities, particularly in the absence of a global agreement on cyber diplomacy.
16 January 2024
The cybercriminal gang Rhysida claimed responsibility for the attack, which affected patient services and IT systems. The attack also impacted a California-based hospital chain.