Cybersecurity News


RSA Spins Off Fraud & Risk Intelligence Unit

The new company, called Outseer, will continue to focus on payment authentication and fraud detection and analysis.
09 June 2021

CISA Addresses Rise in Ransomware Threatening OT Assets

The agency has released guidance in response to a rise of ransomware attacks affecting OT assets and control systems.
09 June 2021

New Security Event @Hack to Take Place in Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Federation of Cybersecurity, Programming, and Drones (SAFCSP) and Informa Tech will launch a multi-day event in Riyadh this November.
09 June 2021

Mysterious Custom Malware Collects Billions of Stolen Data Points

Mysterious Custom Malware Collects Billions of Stolen Data Points A nameless malware resulted in a huge data heist of files, credentials, cookies and more that researchers found collected into a cloud database.
09 June 2021

With Cloud, CDO and CISO Concerns Are Equally Important

With Cloud, CDO and CISO Concerns Are Equally Important Navigated properly, a melding of these complementary perspectives can help keep an organization more secure.
09 June 2021

Intel Plugs 29 Holes in CPUs, Bluetooth, Security

Intel Plugs 29 Holes in CPUs, Bluetooth, Security The higher-rated advisories focus on privilege-escalation bugs in CPU firmware: Tough to patch, hard to exploit, tempting to a savvy attacker.
09 June 2021

Hardening the Physical Security Supply Chain to Mitigate the Cyber-Risk

Nick Smith, Regional Manager at Genetec, details how physical security professionals can improve their resilience to cyberattacks by reviewing the cybersecurity policies of those they work with in the supply chain. This includes everyone from component vendors to installers and engineers.
09 June 2021

Ransomware Is Not the Problem

Arbitrarily powerful software -- applications, operating systems -- is a problem, as is preventing it from running on enterprise systems.
09 June 2021

DarkSide Pwned Colonial With Old VPN Password

DarkSide Pwned Colonial With Old VPN Password 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.
09 June 2021

Gelsemium: When threat actors go gardening

ESET researchers shed light on new campaigns from the quiet Gelsemium group

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09 June 2021

Apple pays millions of dollars to student after repair staff leak her explicit photos online

Sensitive photos were accessed and leaked by workers repairing her iPhone.
09 June 2021

PuzzleMaker attacks exploit Windows zero-day, Chrome vulnerabilities

Two of the zero-days used were patched by Microsoft on Tuesday.
09 June 2021

Got Backups?

Eventually, we all have an accident or get hacked. And when we do, backups are often the only way to recover. Backups are cheap and easy; make sure you are backing up all of your personal information at home (such as family photos) on a regular basis.
09 June 2021

Phished Account Credentials Mostly Verified in Hours

Almost two-thirds of all phished credentials are verified by attackers within a day and then used in a variety of schemes, including business email compromise and targeting other users with malicious code.
08 June 2021

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 6 In-The-Wild Exploits, 50 Flaws

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 6 In-The-Wild Exploits, 50 Flaws Researchers discovered a highly targeted malware campaign launched in April, in which a new, unknown threat actor used two of the vulnerabilities that Microsoft said are under active attack.
08 June 2021

Microsoft Patches 6 Zero-Days Under Active Attack

The June 2021 Patch Tuesday fixes 50 vulnerabilities, six of which are under attack and three of which were publicly known at the time of disclosure.
08 June 2021

Microsoft Patches Six Zero-Day Security Holes

Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks.
08 June 2021

FBI Issued Encrypted Devices to Capture Criminals

A sting operation delivered devices into the hands of global criminals and used the intelligence gathered to stop drug crimes.
08 June 2021

FBI Issues Encrypted Devices to Capture Criminals

A sting operation delivered devices into the hands of global criminals and used the intelligence gathered to stop drug crimes.
08 June 2021

Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed at Business Explode

Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed at Business Explode Socially engineered BEC attacks using X-rated material spike 974 percent.
08 June 2021