Microsoft Lures Populate Half of Credential-Swiping Phishing Emails
According to the sources nearly half of the emails, phishing attacks in the year 2020 aimed to swipe credentials...
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Russian Hackers Sabotaging Critical U.S Infrastructure
Among every state-sponsored hacking group that has attacked the U.S power grid, and went beyond to compromise American Electric Utilities,...
US Senate’s Selection Committe Raises Some Serious Concerns Regarding SolarWinds Attack
The US Senate’s select committee has blamed Russia for the massive intelligence operation that infiltrated SolarWinds, a Texas-based software company,...
Nation States Are Using Cyber Crime Groups to Carry Attacks: States Blackberry Threat Report 2021
Nation-states are employing cybercriminals for hacking activities to perpetrate assaults in order to conceal their own presence. An e-security report...
Mobile malware evolution 2020
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. The...
How to Achieve and Maintain Continuous Cloud Compliance
This blog is part of an ongoing series sharing key takeaways from Rapid7’s 2020 Cloud Security Executive Summit. Interested in...
Intern caused ‘solarwinds123’ password leak, former SolarWinds CEO says
Top executives of the software firm SolarWinds blamed an intern for having used a weak password for several years, exposing...
ByteDance agreed to pay $92M in US privacy Settlement for TikTok data collection
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, agreed to pay $92 million in a settlement to U.S. users for illegal data collection....
NSA embraces the Zero Trust Security Model
The National Security Agency (NSA) published a document to explain the advantages of implementing a zero-trust model. The National Security...
EU leaders aim at boosting defense and security, including cybersecurity
During a video conference of the members of the European Council, EU leaders agreed on a new strategy aimed at boosting...
Tibetan Organizations Targeted in a Chinese Sponsored Phishing Campaign
Cybersecurity experts from Proofpoint have unearthed a Chinese-sponsored phishing campaign and published a report on Thursday; as per the findings,...
American Telecommunications Firm, T-Mobile Confirmed Data Breach and Sim Swapping Attacks
After an undisclosed number of subscribers were reportedly hit by SIM swap attacks, American telecommunications company T-Mobile has announced a...
IBM: Cyber attacks on Linux systems of Russian government agencies will increase
The problem will also affect Russian government agencies, which are switching to domestic Linux operating systems as part of import...
Alexa Skills can Easily Bypass Vetting Process
Researchers have uncovered gaps in Amazon's skill vetting process for the Alexa voice assistant ecosystem that could permit a threat...
New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia hacked again
The New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia suffered a new cyber heist while it is in liquidation due to a 2019...
Security Affairs newsletter Round 303
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for...
Experts found a critical authentication bypass flaw in Rockwell Automation software
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability could be exploited by remote attackers to Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs). A critical...
Hotarus Corp gang hacked Ecuador’s Ministry of Finance and Banco Pichincha
‘Hotarus Corp’ Ransomware operators hacked Ecuador’s largest private bank, Banco Pichincha, and the country’s Ministry of Finance. A cybercrime group...
To pay, or not to pay? That is the VPN question
VPNs have been a subject of deliberation for a long time. Is it even important to use one? I think...
Steris Corporation, The Latest Victim of Ransomware Gang Called ‘Clop’.
Data related to a customer of a recently targeted California-based private cloud solutions firm Accellion is being published online...
SQL Triggers Used by Hackers to Compromise User Database
Over the past year, a broader pattern of WordPress malware with SQL triggers has occurred within infected databases to mask...
T-Mobile customers were hit with SIM swapping attacks
The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks....
New Ryuk ransomware implements self-spreading capabilities
French experts spotted a new Ryuk ransomware variant that implements self-spreading capabilities to infect other devices on victims’ local networks....
Microsoft releases open-source CodeQL queries to assess Solorigate compromise
Microsoft announced the release of open-source CodeQL queries that it experts used during its investigation into the SolarWinds supply-chain attack...
