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Cisco this week announced that it has patched two actively exploited Salt vulnerabilities, but not before malicious actors leveraged the flaws to hack some of the company’s servers. [Read More]
NTT Communications, a subsidiary of Japanese tech giant NTT Corp, has disclosed a data breach that impacted hundreds of customers. [Read More]
The U.S. National Security Agency says a Russian military hacking group has been exploiting a major email server program since last August or earlier. [Read More]
Threat actors have targeted industrial suppliers in Japan and several European countries in sophisticated attacks that employed various techniques to make malware detection and analysis more difficult. [Read More]
The US state of Arizona filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Google of committing fraud by being deceptive about gathering location data. [Read More]
Researchers say they have found the real identity of a Brazilian hacker who defaced thousands of websites as part of hacktivist operations and who was also involved in profit-driven cybercrime. [Read More]
Recent versions of the Valak malware have been used in attacks targeting Microsoft Exchange servers at organizations in the United States and Germany. [Read More]
Google says an Iran-linked hacker group known as Charming Kitten has targeted healthcare and medical professionals, including WHO employees. [Read More]
Israel’s national cyber chief officially acknowledged the country had thwarted a major cyber attack last month against its water systems, an assault widely attributed to arch-enemy Iran. [Read More]
As more governments turn to tracing apps in the fight against the coronavirus, a deep-rooted tension between the need for public health information and privacy rights has been thrust into the spotlight. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Cybercrime
Many organizations are steadfast in their belief that dark web monitoring is a critical part of their security operations and the security industry is happy to fuel that belief.
Researchers have undertaken a deep dive into the shadowy, cyber world of those whose work involves abusing others online through trickery, extortion, fraud, and theft resulting from COVID-19.
CISA has recently designated many cyber security positions ‘essential roles', and our understanding of essential businesses and essential employees will continue to change as the pandemic evolves.
The barriers to entering the field of cybercrime have been significantly lowered, and for modest amounts of money, would-be scammers can buy high-quality phishing tools online.
Most of today’s cyber-attacks are front ended by phishing campaigns. So, what can organizations do to prevent their users from falling for the bait of these attacks?
Many of us are familiar with the two most common types of socially engineered attacks – phishing and spear-phishing – but there are many more to be aware of.
Although robocalls are a pain for many of us, action is being taken to bring the problem under control.
The holidays are also a bonanza for cybercriminals whose own sales and purchases of contraband on the dark web mirror the one-day-only specials of their consumer-facing counterparts.
Domain name typo-squatting is an established tactic in the world of cybercrime.
Intent-based segmentation, deception technology, and an integrated security fabric are essential tools in beating malware designed to avoid detection and analysis.
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