Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
27 June 2023
Europol on Tuesday announced that the takedown of EncroChat in July 2020 led to 6,558 arrests worldwide and the seizure of €900 million in illicit criminal proceeds.
The law enforcement agency said that a subsequent joint investigation initiated by French and Dutch authorities intercepted and analyzed over 115 million conversations that took place over the encrypted messaging platform between no
27 June 2023
Malvertising attacks are on the rise, with over 800 related attacks reported in 2023 alone. Malvertising often delivers infostealer malware that steals user credentials, which are then sold to ransomware actors for network infiltration.
27 June 2023
A new Android malware campaign has been observed pushing the Anatsa banking trojan to target banking customers in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since the start of March 2023.
"The actors behind Anatsa aim to steal credentials used to authorize customers in mobile banking applications and perform Device-Takeover Fraud (DTO) to initiate fraudulent transactions," ThreatFabric
27 June 2023
European organizations experienced a greater volume and frequency of BEC attacks over the last year, as compared to organizations in the United States, according to Abnormal Security.
27 June 2023
According to a U.S. Department of Justice announcement, the suspect, Milomir Desnica, is charged with facilitating $18 million in illegal drug transactions through his website.
27 June 2023
Fortinet has rolled out updates to address a critical security vulnerability impacting its FortiNAC network access control solution that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Tracked as CVE-2023-33299, the flaw is rated 9.6 out of 10 for severity on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as a case of Java untrusted object deserialization.
"A deserialization of untrusted data
26 June 2023
A new survey highlights that security professionals view misconfiguration of cloud platforms or improper setup ranks as the most significant security threat.
26 June 2023
"Cryptographic computations performed by the CPU change the power consumption of the device which affects the brightness of the device's power LED," researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Cornell University said in a study.
26 June 2023
Despite security concerns about generative artificial intelligence, businesses are looking to implement the technology within their organizations.
26 June 2023
The district says their investigation determined in mid-May that some personal information from current and former employees, their dependents, students, and families, was potentially accessed by attackers from the district's network.
26 June 2023
In what's an ingenious side-channel attack, a group of academics has found that it's possible to recover secret keys from a device by analyzing video footage of its power LED.
"Cryptographic computations performed by the CPU change the power consumption of the device which affects the brightness of the device's power LED," researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Cornell
26 June 2023
A MOVEit cyberattack has exposed sensitive data on around 45 thousand New York City Public School students - as well as Department of Education staff and service providers.
26 June 2023
Cybercriminals tend to strike highly profitable companies, those holding abundant cash, and organizations that spend generously on advertising, according to an American Enterprise Institute study of cyberattacks from January 1999 until January 2022.
26 June 2023
Unit 42 researchers uncovered a modified version of the Mirai botnet that is actively abusing at least 22 security flaws in devices manufactured by the likes of D-Link, Arris, Zyxel, TP-Link, Tenda, Netgear, and MediaTek. The attackers aim to take control of these devices and utilize them to carry out DDoS attacks. Notably, this Mirai variant lacks the feature to brute force telnet/SSH login credentials.
26 June 2023
The attack lasted for more than 10 hours and was mitigated late on Sunday, according to Activision Blizzard’s statement on Twitter. Blizzard has not yet identified the hacker group behind it and no one has yet come forward to claim responsibility.
26 June 2023
Trigona ransomware is a relatively new family that targets compromised MSSQL servers and has been detected mainly in the technology and healthcare industries in countries such as the US, India, and Israel.
26 June 2023
Forty percent of consumers are skeptical of organizations' ability to protect their data adequately according to a report by Object First.
26 June 2023
Elastic Security Labs, which is monitoring the intrusion set under the name REF9134, said the attack led to the installation of Swiftbelt, a Swift-based enumeration tool inspired by an open-source utility called SeatBelt.
26 June 2023
A new infographic reveals the top 10 risky behaviors that employees have engaged in on their work devices.
26 June 2023
The company says it has taken measures to mitigate the attack and informed the authorities of the situation. At the same time, it expects transactions with customers and suppliers to be negatively impacted until the incident is resolved.