Stopcrypt Most Widely Distributed Ransomware Now Evades Detection
A new variant of StopCrypt ransomware (aka STOP) was spotted in the wild, employing a multi-stage execution process that involves...
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Google Chrome Gets Real Time Phishing Protection Later This Month
Google will roll out a Safe Browsing update later this month that will provide real-time malware and phishing protection to...
French Unemployment Agency Data Breach Impacts 43 Million People
France Travail, formerly known as Pôle Emploi, is warning that hackers breached its systems and may leak or exploit personal...
Tech Support Firms Restoro Reimage Fined 26 Million For Scare Tactics
Tech support companies Restoro and Reimage will pay $26 million to settle charges that they used scare tactics to trick...
Sim Swappers Hijacking Phone Numbers In Esim Attacks
SIM swappers have adapted their attacks to steal a target's phone number by porting it into a new eSIM card,...
Meta Sues Former VP After Defection to AI Startup
Meta has launched legal action against a former vice president after he allegedly stole employee and business contracts before resigning...
Google Paid $10m in Bug Bounties to Security Researchers in 2023
Google paid $10m in bug bounties in 2023, after security researchers identified thousands of vulnerabilities across its products and services.More...
Fortinet Patches Critical Bug in FortiClient EMS
Fortinet has patched a critical SQL injection vulnerability in its endpoint management software which could enable remote code execution (RCE)...
French Employment Agency Data Breach Could Affect 43 Million People
France’s Employment Agency has suffered a data breach that could affect users who registered over the past 20 years, representing...
US Government to Investigate Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack
Read more on the Change Healthcare Attack: Change Healthcare Cyber-Attack Leads to Prescription Delays UnitedHealth Sets Timeline to Restore Change...
New Report Suggests Surge in SaaS Assets, Employee Data Sharing
Security researchers have noticed a substantial increase in software-as-a-service (SaaS) assets, with an average of 286,000 new assets generated weekly...
TikTok Faces US Ban as House Votes to Compel ByteDance to Sell
The US House of Representatives has approved a bill on Wednesday, compelling ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to divest...
Critical Vulnerabilities in Fortinet Products
Fortinet has released security updates to address critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-48788, CVE-2023-42789 and CVE-2023-42790) affecting their FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS),...
Lockbit Ransomware Affiliate Gets Four Years In Jail To Pay 860k
Russian-Canadian cybercriminal Mikhail Vasiliev has been sentenced to four years in prison by an Ontario court for his involvement in...
Hackers Exploit Windows Smartscreen Flaw To Drop Darkgate Malware
A new wave of attacks by the DarkGate malware operation exploits a now-fixed Windows Defender SmartScreen vulnerability to bypass security...
Fortinet Warns Of Critical Rce Bug In Endpoint Management Software
Fortinet patched a critical vulnerability in its FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) software that can allow attackers to gain remote...
Us Govt Probes If Ransomware Gang Stole Change Healthcare Data
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is investigating whether protected health information was stolen in a ransomware attack...
Pixpirate Android Malware Uses New Tactic To Hide On Phones
The latest version of the PixPirate banking trojan for Android employs a new method to hide on phones while remaining...
Pen Test Vendor Rotation Do You Need To Change Annually
You might have heard about the practice of pen test vendor rotation, or even tried it yourself. This is where...
Nearly 13 Million Secrets Spilled Via Public GitHub Repositories
Developers accidentally leaked 12.8 million secrets on public GitHub repositories in 2023, a 28% increase on the previous year, according...
Cloud Account Attacks Surged 16-Fold in 2023
Cloud account threats increased 16-fold in 2023, with attackers adopting new techniques in these environments, according to Red Canary’s 2024...
New Research Exposes Security Risks in ChatGPT Plugins
Security researchers have uncovered critical security flaws within ChatGPT plugins. By exploiting these flaws, attackers could seize control of an...
Investment Scams Grow, 13,000 Domains Detected in January 2024
Internet security experts have detected and blocked nearly 13,000 fake investment platform domains across more than 7000 IPs in January...
Single RCE Bug Features Among 60 CVEs in March Patch Tuesday
Microsoft fixed 60 vulnerabilities in this month’s Patch Tuesday security update round, including just two critical bugs.These both affect Windows...
