Cybersecurity News
Firms Still Struggle to Prioritize Security Vulnerabilities
Security debt continues to pile up, with 42% of organizations attributing remediation backlogs to a breach, a new study shows.17 August 2020
Advent Completes Forescout Purchase
The purchase by a private equity fund was announced in February and completed today.17 August 2020
Reported Breach Count for H1 2020 Lowest in Five Years
While reported breach numbers are down, a handful of "mega" breaches resulted in more data records being exposed than ever before, analysis shows.17 August 2020
Cybersecurity Companies Among Smaller Firms Hit with Brand Spoofing
Researchers find smaller organizations, including some in the cybersecurity space, increasingly targeted with these impersonation attacks.17 August 2020
‘EmoCrash’ Exploit Stoppered Emotet For 6 Months
A researcher developed a killswitch exploiting a buffer overflow in Emotet - preventing the malware from infecting systems for six months.
17 August 2020
Microsoft's Control Flow Guard comes to Rust and LLVM compilers
Clang and rustc compilers can now compile CFG-enabled Windows binaries.17 August 2020
REvil Ransomware Hits Jack Daniel's Manufacturer
Attackers who targeted US spirits manufacturer Brown-Forman reportedly stole a terabyte of confidential data.17 August 2020
Should I Segment my IoT Devices Onto Their Own Networks?
Understanding the criticality and importance of the device determines the level of segmentation.
17 August 2020
Jack Daniels, Ritz London Face Cyberattacks
The REvil ransomware and savvy phone scammers have exposed sensitive information.
17 August 2020
Crypto-mining worm steal AWS credentials
TeamTNT has become the first crypto-minining botnet to include a feature that scans and steal AWS credentials.17 August 2020
Cyberattacks Hit Thousands of Canadian Tax, Benefit Accounts
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) suspended online services after accounts were hit in a third wave of credential stuffing attacks this weekend - giving bad actors access to various government services.
17 August 2020
The IT Backbone of Cybercrime
Like their counterparts who run legitimate businesses, cybercriminals need hosting and cybersecurity protection, too.17 August 2020
Ritz London suspects data breach, fraudsters pose as staff in credit card data scam
Scammers phoned guests to “confirm” their credit card details for reservations.17 August 2020
Attack of the Instagram clones
Could your social media account be spoofed, why would anybody do it, and what can you do to avoid having a doppelgänger?
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17 August 2020
Controversial facial recognition tech firm Clearview AI inks deal with ICE
$224,000 has been spent on Clearview licenses by the US immigration and customs department.17 August 2020
US regulators settle with CenturyLink over anti-competition violations
CenturyLink allegedly flouted court orders designed to stop anti-competitive behavior linked to the merger with Level 3.17 August 2020
Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
A security flaw in the way Microsoft Windows guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued a software update to correct the problem.17 August 2020
PoC Exploit Targeting Apache Struts Surfaces on GitHub
Researchers have discovered freely available PoC code and exploit that can be used to attack unpatched security holes in Apache Struts 2.
14 August 2020
For six months, security researchers have secretly distributed an Emotet vaccine across the world
Binary Defense researchers have identified a bug in the Emotet malware and have been using it to prevent the malware from making new victims.14 August 2020
Research Casts Doubt on Value of Threat Intel Feeds
Two commercial threat intelligence services and four open source feeds rarely provide the same information, raising questions about how security teams should gauge their utility.14 August 2020
