A recent wave of spear-phishing campaigns leveraged weaponized Windows 11 Alpha-themed Word documents with Visual Basic macros to drop malicious payloads, including a JavaScript implant, against...
“We can’t do this alone,” the new CISA director told attendees in a keynote at Black Hat USA today. BLACK HAT USA 2021 – Las Vegas – Jen Easterly, the...
Dubbed Safety Mode, the feature will temporarily block authors of offensive tweets from being able to contact or follow users. Twitter has unveiled a new feature...
The well-known and widely-used encryption library OpenSSL released a security patch earlier this week. Annoyingly for those who like lean, modern, sans serif typefaces, the new version is OpenSSL...
You must have had that happy feeling (happiest of all when it’s still a day or two to payday and you know that your balance is...
In my first nearly 90 days since joining Cisco, I’ve spoken with customers from around the world. And one thing that I continue to hear? The shift to a more distributed workforce is...
The C-suite in any organisation is entrusted with the responsibility of spearheading innovation, progress, and company direction. Additionally, C-level executives hold a greater responsibility in maintaining...
WhatsApp has been fined €225m (£193m) by Ireland’s data watchdog for breaching privacy regulations. It is the largest fine ever from the Irish Data Protection Commission,...
The operators of the Mozi IoT botnet have been taken into custody by Chinese law enforcement authorities, nearly two years after the malware emerged on the...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added single-factor authentication to the short list of “exceptionally risky” cybersecurity practices that could expose critical infrastructure as...
Your company’s stock price nosedives by 15% in a single day. You get a flood of messages from concerned family and friends about your company. Your...
Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 are obsessed with protecting the workforce endpoints as critical vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity and...
For years, security professionals have recognized the need to enhance SaaS security. However, the exponential adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications over 2020 turned slow-burning embers into...
Law enforcement authorities with the Interpol have apprehended a threat actor responsible for targeting thousands of unwitting victims over several years and staging malware attacks on...
Notorious North Korean APT impersonates Airbus, General Motors and Rheinmetall to lure potential victims into downloading malware. The notorious Lazarus advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been identified...
Purchase automation software delivered shortened URLs without protections. Baby clothes retailer Carter’s inadvertently exposed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of its customers, dating back...
Nearly all of the leaked data was for owners or wannabe owners of the automaker’s luxury brand of Audis, now at greater risk for phishing, ransomware...
Author: Ravie Lakshmanan Instagram has patched a new flaw that allowed anyone to view archived posts and stories posted by private accounts without having to follow...
Even as a massive data breach affecting Air India came to light the previous month, India’s flag carrier airline appears to have suffered a separate cyber...
Raspberry Pi-powered prototype proves 95% accurate, 100% private, claim boffins Researchers at the University of Michigan have proposed a way to have your privacy cake and...
Criminal operators emerged from woodwork just as COVID hit the West The Nefilim ransomware gang might not be the best known or most prolific online extortion...
As local search engines stop providing results on crypto-keywords China’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies has reached a new crescendo, with the nation’s Ministry of Public Security on...
‘Surprise stealing mechanics’ made short work of network perimeter security Gareth CorfieldFri 11 Jun 2021 // 12:25 UTC EA Games, publisher of Battlefield, The Sims and FIFA, has admitted to a “recent incident of intrusion into...
7-Year-Old Polkit Flaw Lets Unprivileged Linux Users Gain Root Access A seven-year-old privilege escalation vulnerability discovered in the polkit system service could be exploited by a...
Hackers Can Exploit Samsung Pre-Installed Apps to Spy On Users Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in Samsung’s pre-installed Android apps, which, if successfully exploited,...
‘Fancy Lazarus’ Cyberattackers Ramp up Ransom DDoS Efforts The group, known for masquerading as various APT groups, is back with a spate of attacks on U.S....
Attackers accessed a VPN account that was no longer in use to freeze the company’s network in a ransomware attack whose repercussions are still vibrating. It...
Researchers have disclosed a new type of attack that exploits misconfigurations in transport layer security (TLS) servers to redirect HTTPS traffic from a victim’s web browser...
Chinese Cyber Espionage Hackers Continue to Target Pulse Secure VPN Devices Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity researchers from FireEye unmasked additional tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) adopted by...
Your Amazon Devices to Automatically Share Your Wi-Fi With Neighbors May 31, 2021Ravie Lakshmanan Starting June 8, Amazon will automatically enable a feature on its family...
