Cybersecurity News


Twitter prepares for US election with new security training, penetration tests

Twitter has also rolled out hardware security keys to all employees to prevent social engineering and phishing attacks.
24 September 2020

Microsoft: Attackers Exploiting ‘ZeroLogon’ Windows Flaw

Microsoft warned on Wednesday that malicious hackers are exploiting a particularly dangerous flaw in Windows Server systems that could be used to give attackers the keys to the kingdom inside a vulnerable corporate network. Microsoft's warning comes just days after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued an emergency directive instructing all federal agencies to patch the vulnerability by Sept. 21 at the latest.
24 September 2020

CrowdStrike Agrees to Acquire Preempt Security for $96M

CrowdStrike plans to use Preempt Security's conditional access technology to strengthen its Falcon platform.
24 September 2020

CrowdStrike Agrees to Acquire Preemptive Security for $96M

CrowdStrike plans to use Preemptive Security's conditional access technology to strengthen its Falcon platform.
24 September 2020

Microsoft Warns of Attackers Now Exploiting 'Zerologon' Flaw

The Security Intelligence team at Microsoft is tracking newly waged exploits in the wild.
24 September 2020

Ray‑Ban parent company reportedly suffers major ransomware attack

There is no evidence that cybercriminals were also able to steal customer data

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24 September 2020

Polish police shut down hacker super-group involved in bomb threats, ransomware, SIM swapping

The hackers also distributed Windows and Android malware, and even ran 50 fake online stores where they defrauded buyers.
24 September 2020

Alien Android Banking Trojan Sidesteps 2FA

Alien Android Banking Trojan Sidesteps 2FA A new 'fork' of the Cerberus banking trojan, called Alien, targets victims' credentials from more than 200 mobile apps, including Bank of America and Microsoft Outlook.
24 September 2020

Since Remote Work Isn't Going Away, Security Should Be the Focus

These three steps will help organizations reduce long-term work-from-home security risks.
24 September 2020

ICO fines profiteering UK firm for touting coronavirus products over spam texts

The UK company sent cold texts offering products “effective against coronavirus.”
24 September 2020

Next-generation police dogs now sniff out your electronics

Drugs and weapons are not the only criminal evidence police dogs are on the hunt for.
24 September 2020

Instagram bug opened a path for hackers to hijack app, turn smartphones into spies

The RCE vulnerability, now patched, took nothing more than an image file to trigger.
24 September 2020

Microsoft says it detected active attacks leveraging Zerologon vulnerability

Zerologon patching window is slowly closing as Microsoft warns of attacks in the wild.
24 September 2020

New 'Alien' malware can steal passwords from 226 Android apps

Most targets are banking apps, but Alien can also show phishing pages for social, instant messaging, and cryptocurrency apps.
24 September 2020

Govt. Services Firm Tyler Technologies Hit in Apparent Ransomware Attack

Tyler Technologies, a Texas-based company that bills itself as the largest provider of software and technology services to the United States public sector, is battling a network intrusion that has disrupted its operations. The company declined to discuss the exact cause of the disruption, but their response so far is straight out of the playbook for responding to ransomware incidents.
23 September 2020

Gaming Industry Hit With 10B+ Attacks In Past Two Years

Gaming Industry Hit With 10B+ Attacks In Past Two Years Criminals scored big with credential stuffing and web app attacks, yet many gamers seem unfazed.
23 September 2020

Zerologon Patches Roll Out Beyond Microsoft

Zerologon Patches Roll Out Beyond Microsoft A Samba patch and a micropatch for end-of-life servers have debuted in the face of the critical vulnerability.
23 September 2020

Shopify's Employee Data Theft Underscores Risk of Rogue Insiders

The e-commerce platform has alerted more than 100 merchants of a data breach, highlighting the danger of malicious insiders.
23 September 2020

Google Cloud Debuts Threat-Detection Service

Lockdown economics are driving a threat-intelligence business boom. Chronicle Detect is Google's answer to monitoring so much log data created by the distributed workforce.
23 September 2020

Microsoft, Italy, and the Netherlands warn of increased Emotet activity

New alerts about a spike in Emotet activity come after France, Japan, New Zealand issued similar warnings at the start of the month.
23 September 2020