Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The encrypted messaging app Telegram has become a veritable marketplace for bad actors who want to launch effective phishing campaigns...
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Tax Season is Upon Us, and So Are the Scammers – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt It’s still relatively early in the year, but bad actors are already targeting accounting and finance organizations as well as...
Most Ransom Groups Now Using Extortion, Delinea Survey Finds – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The ransomware landscape continues to evolve, with attackers now more likely to exfiltrate data and threaten victims with selling or...
Insurance Broker Keenan Says 1.5 Million Affected by Data Breach – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Insurance broker Keenan and Associates is notifying more than 1.5 million people that their personal information may have been stolen...
QR Code Scammers are Changing Tactics to Evade Detection – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Check Point researchers last year saw a 587% increase between August and September of phishing attacks enticing unsuspecting targets to...
AI Will Fuel Rise in Ransomware, UK Cyber Agency Says – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The accelerating innovation of generative AI will increase the risks of ransomware and other cyberthreats over the next two years...
Organizations are Embracing Cyber Insurance, But It’s Not Easy: Survey – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The growing number and sophistication of cyberattacks and the financial impact such incidents can have a company’s financial picture are...
Jason’s Deli Restaurant Chain Hit by a Credential Stuffing Attack – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The personal information of more than 340,000 customers of popular restaurant chain Jason’s Deli may have been victims of a...
SEC X Account Hack is a Case of SIM Swapping – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The bad actor who hacked into the X account of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this month gained...
Chinese Espionage Group Has Exploited VMware Flaw Since 2021 – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt A Chinese espionage group spotted last year by Mandiant researchers abusing a flaw that affected VMware virtualization tools has been...
PixieFail Bugs in UEFI Open Source Implementation Threaten Computers – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt A collection of security vulnerabilities found within the de facto open source implementation of the UEFI specification could expose systems...
DDoS Attackers Put Environmental Services Firms in Their Crosshairs – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Environmental services websites are becoming significant targets for threat groups launching distributed denial-of-services attacks, with researchers at Cloudflare noting a...
FCC Asks Carmakers, Carriers How They’re Protecting Abuse Survivors – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The Federal Communications Commission is pressing automakers and wireless service providers to say how they are protecting victims of domestic...
Survey: Election Workers Feel Unprepared for Upcoming Cyberthreats – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The issues of outside interference in U.S. elections and the security of the systems behind them have been talked and...
NIST: Better Defenses are Needed for AI Systems – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The accelerating development and expanding deployment of AI systems is creating significant security and privacy risks that aren’t being mitigated...
Nest Wallet CEO Loses $125,000 in Wallet Draining Scam – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The co-founder and CEO of a startup cryptocurrency wallet said he lost $125,000 in crypto in a scam, becoming among...
Embattled LastPass Enforcing 12-Character Passwords for All – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Password manager vendor LastPass, beset by high-profile data breaches from 2022 that affected millions of users, is strengthening the security...
GKE Case Highlights Risks of Attackers Chaining Vulnerabilities – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Palo Alto Network’s cybersecurity recently outlined two vulnerabilities it found in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that, individually, don’t represent much...
Web Injection Campaign Targets 40 Banks, 50,000 Users – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Dozens of banks around the word are in the crosshairs of a threat group using JavaScript web injections to steal...
International Investigations Target Financial Cybercrime – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt International authorities took two big swipes at cybercriminals this week, with Interpol and others rounding up almost 3,500 suspects in...
Attackers Finding Novel Ways to Abuse GitHub: ReversingLabs – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Threat actors are finding new ways to take advantage of GitHub in hopes of tricking developers into putting malicious code...
Play Ransomware Has Hit 300 Entities Worldwide: FBI – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The Play ransomware group, which was behind such high-profile attacks as those on the city of Oakland, California, and Dallas...
Controversial SEC Cyber Disclosure Rules Take Effect – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt They’ve been detailed, debated, and fretted about for months, but as of today, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new set...
Google, Yahoo to Put Tighter Spam Restrictions on Bulk Senders – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Email giants Google and Yahoo are putting tighter requirements on bulk email senders in hopes of reducing the massive amounts...
CISA and NSA Offer MFA and SSO Guidelines for Developers, Vendors – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Developers and tech vendors need to improve multifactor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) tools and make them easier for...
Two Campaigns Drop Malicious Packages into NPM – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The popular NPM code registry continues to be a target of bad actors looking to sneak their malicious packages into...
AWS’ MadPot Honeypot Operation Corrals Threat Actors – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Engineers with Amazon Web Services more than a decade ago began developing tools to better collect intelligence on the cyberthreats...
Threat Groups Accelerating the Use of Dual Ransomware Attacks – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Ransomware groups are shrinking the time between attacks on the same victim, sometimes targeting the same company twice within 48...
CISA Rolls Out a HBOM Framework to Secure Hardware Components – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt The federal government for the past few years has focused on protecting the software supply chain in the wake of...
Lawsuit Filed Against Google, Meta, H&R Block for Sharing Taxpayer Data – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Jeffrey Burt Meta, Google, and giant tax preparer H&R Block are being accused of conspiring to illegally use spyware from the tech...