Cybersecurity News
Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case
On the eve of their federal criminal trial for allegedly stealing vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct have agreed to plead guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.10 June 2022
3 takeaways from RSA Conference 2022 – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Here are three themes that stood out at the world's largest gathering of cybersecurity professionals
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10 June 2022
RSA – APIs, your organization’s dedicated backdoors
API-based data transfer is so rapid, there’s but little time to stop very bad things happening quickly
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10 June 2022
U.S. Water Utilities Prime Cyberattack Target, Experts
Environmentalists and policymakers warn water treatment plants are ripe for attack.
10 June 2022
Potent Emotet Variant Spreads Via Stolen Email Credentials
The dangerous malware appears to be well and truly back in action, sporting new variants and security-dodging behaviors in a wave of recent phishing campaigns.
10 June 2022
Why you can't trust Instagram
Weeks after I reported that my Instagram account had been hacked, Instagram remained silent. My account is now long gone.09 June 2022
Feds Forced Travel Firms to Share Surveillance Data on Hacker
Sabre and Travelport had to report the weekly activities of former “Cardplanet” cybercriminal Aleksei Burkov for two years, info that eventually led to his arrest and prosecution.
09 June 2022
RSA – Creepy real‑world edition
Digital fiddling somehow got mixed up in a real war
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09 June 2022
This new Linux malware is 'almost impossible' to detect
Symbiote is parasitic malware that provides rootkit-level functionality.09 June 2022
RSA – Digital healthcare meets security, but does it really want to?
Technology is understandably viewed as a nuisance to be managed in pursuit of the health organizations’ primary mission
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08 June 2022
Taming the Digital Asset Tsunami
Rob Gurzeev, CEO and Co-Founder of CyCognito, explores external attack surface soft spots tied to an ever-expanding number of digital assets companies too often struggle to keep track of and manage effectively.
08 June 2022
Paying Ransomware Paints Bigger Bullseye on Target’s Back
Ransomware attackers often strike targets twice, regardless of whether the ransom was paid.
08 June 2022
Black Basta Ransomware Teams Up with Malware Stalwart Qbot
The novel cybercriminal group tapped the ever-evolving info-stealing trojan to move laterally on a network in a recent attack, researchers have found.
08 June 2022
RSA – Spot the real fake
How erring on the side of privacy might ultimately save you from chasing down a virtual rendition of you doing the bidding of a scammer
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07 June 2022
Apple's Safety Check combats domestic abuse but timing its use is critical
The feature is useful but has its limitations in fighting domestic and intimate partner violence.07 June 2022
KrebsOnSecurity in New Netflix Series on Cybercrime
Netflix has a new documentary series airing next week -- "Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet" -- in which Yours Truly apparently has a decent amount of screen time. The debut episode explores the far-too-common harassment tactic of "swatting" -- wherein fake bomb threats or hostage situations are phoned in to police as part of a scheme to trick them into visiting potentially deadly force on a target’s address.07 June 2022
Cyber Risk Retainers: Not Another Insurance Policy
The costs associated with a cyberattack can be significant, especially if a company does not have an Incident Response plan that addresses risk.
07 June 2022
Conducting Modern Insider Risk Investigations
Insider Risk Management requires a different approach than to those from external threats. IRM is unique from other domains of security in that the data sources which serve as inputs are as often people as they are tools. Shifting the analyst‘s mindset when handling risks presented by insiders requires us to move through the stages of inquiry, investigation, and determining outcomes.
07 June 2022
Follina Exploited by State-Sponsored Hackers
A government-aligned attacker tried using a Microsoft vulnerability to attack U.S. and E.U. government targets.
07 June 2022
Attackers Use Public Exploits to Throttle Atlassian Confluence Flaw
The vulnerability remains unpatched on many versions of the collaboration tool and has potential to create a SolarWinds-type scenario.
07 June 2022