Category: Security

August 11, 2022

Cisco has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack, caused by the login credentials of an employee being compromised. While Cisco says it suffered no major consequences from the May 2022 incident, the threat actor, who was able to linger around the […]

August 11, 2022

Ransomware operators may have given victims a slight respite over the summer, but this now seems to have come to an end as attacks rise once again, new research has suggested. The Q2/2022 Threat Report from Avast claims the number […]

August 10, 2022

Today’s web has made hackers’ tasks remarkably easy. For the most part, hackers don’t even have to hide in the dark recesses of the web to take advantage of people any longer; they can be found right in plain sight […]

August 10, 2022

The first ever incident possibly involving the ransomware family known as Maui occurred on April 15, 2021, aimed at an unnamed Japanese housing company. The disclosure from Kaspersky arrives a month after U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies issued an advisory […]

August 8, 2022

Open redirects, a classic weakness found in many of the world’s biggest web pages, are reportedly being used to steal login credentials(opens in new tab) for Microsoft 365 accounts. According to experts from security firm Inky, the method was used […]

August 3, 2022

Microsoft wants to solve one of the biggest cybersecurity problems for today’s enterprises – vulnerable endpoints(opens in new tab) flying under the security radar. The company has announced Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, which looks to give IT teams […]

August 3, 2022

One of the potential encryption algorithms that was a serious candidate to be used in the quantum computing world has been defeated worryingly simply. The algorithm in question is called SIKE (Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation), and made it through the […]

August 3, 2022

The summer of 2022 is continuing to be a bit of a nightmare for cryptocurrency users after yet another hack resulted in the theft of at least $4 million worth of tokens. This time around, it’s not a blockchain bridge […]

August 2, 2022

If there’s one thing people with iPhones and Android phones can agree on, it’s this: Robocalls suck. Personally speaking, robots call me more than my own mother does. A very concerned “Cynthia Arnold” gets in touch every week or so […]

July 29, 2022

Now that macros in downloaded Microsoft Office files are officially dead(opens in new tab), it was only a matter of time before hackers came up with a new scheme. According to cybersecurity experts Proofpoint, they’ve found not one, not two, […]

July 29, 2022

It’s getting harder for ransomware operators to get the victims to pay up, but once they do – they pay more than they did a year ago. A new report from Coveware claims that although the number of payments dropped, […]

July 28, 2022

Security researchers have discovered two major flaws in FileWave’s endpoint(opens in new tab) management software which could have given threat actors a way to circumvent authentication measures and completely take over the affected devices. The flaws affected more than 1,100 […]

July 27, 2022

Data breaches are costlier and more impactful than ever before, a wide-ranging study by IBM has found. Surveying 550 organizations from all over the world, the company claims that the global average cost of a data breach has now hit […]

July 26, 2022

Making sure you have strong passwords has been common security advice for some time, but Google Chrome is now looking to go a step further with its latest update. The browser is reportedly working on a new feature which will […]

July 25, 2022

Several schools and other educational organizations are having to restrict usage of Google’s software, including its Chrome browser and Chrome OS offerings over security and privacy fears. The Dutch Ministry of Education has ordered the country’s education industry to implement […]

July 21, 2022

The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor tracked as Evilnum is once again exhibiting signs of renewed activity aimed at European financial and investment entities. “Evilnum is a backdoor that can be used for data theft or to load additional payloads,” […]

July 11, 2022

Are we in a recession? The answer seems to be “definitely maybe,” with the Wall Street Journal reporting that “if the U.S. is in a recession, it’s a very strange one” because while economic output has been falling, the job […]

July 6, 2022

Researchers have discovered a new malware sample capable of hiding from more than 50 antivirus(opens in new tab) products available on the market right now. The malware was discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Unit 42, the threat intelligence team at […]

June 30, 2022

After being tipped off by cybersecurity researchers from Unit 42, a division of Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft has pushed out a patch for a high-severity vulnerability found in Service Fabric. Publishing a blog post(opens in new tab) to explain what […]

June 24, 2022

Google has confirmed reports of the existence of an extremely potent Android malware(opens in new tab), and notified victims that they’re being targeted. In a blog post(opens in new tab), Benoit Sevens, and Clement Lecigne of the company’s Threat Analysis […]