Month: May 2024
May 24, 2024NewsroomMalvertising / Endpoint Security Threat actors have been observed making use of fake websites masquerading as legitimate antivirus solutions from Avast, Bitdefender, and Malwarebytes to propagate malware capable of stealing sensitive information from Android and Windows devices. “Hosting malicious software through sites which look legitimate is predatory to general consumers, especially those who…
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Ransomware, on the other hand, saw a decline to 16%, from 23% of incidents in the preceding quarter, Kroll noted, possibly because of the law enforcement takedowns of ransomware-as-a-service organizations such as LockBit and BlackCat. Insider threats mostly malicious Insider threats, the report said, are hitting professional services hardest, accounting for 23% of incidents, with…
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The main contributor was Nvidia’s data center revenue, which more than quintupled in the first quarter from the same period last year, growing 427 percent year-over-year to $22.5 billion. Nvidia once again reported triple-digit growth in revenue and profit in the latest quarter from the same period last year, a sign that demand for the…
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A data breach involving the Dutch city of Eindhoven left the personal information related to almost all of its citizens exposed. As Eindhovens Dagblad reports, two files containing the personal data of 221,511 inhabitants of Eindhoven were accessible to unauthorised parties for a period of time last year. Everyone who lives in the Netherlands has…
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Check out the EPA’s call for water plants to beef up their cyber defenses. Plus, open source developers have a new platform to share threat intelligence. Moreover, business email compromise attacks prompt alert from U.K.’s cyber agency. And CISA tackles DNS encryption best practices. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of…
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May 24, 2024The Hacker NewsCybersecurity Webinar Don’t be fooled into thinking that cyber threats are only a problem for large organizations. The truth is that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting smaller businesses, and they’re getting smarter every day. Join our FREE webinar “Navigating the SMB Threat Landscape: Key Insights from Huntress’ Threat Report,” in which Jamie…
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Justin Lam, senior research analyst covering information security at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said that tackling security and privacy risks is common practice for businesses and shouldn’t necessarily preclude the use of tools shown to provide benefits to users and businesses. “Enterprises face challenges to balance user privacy, user productivity, internal risk management, surveillance, and compliance,” he…
Read MoreOn the Zero-Day Market New paper: “Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market“: Abstract: Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have seen a global market emerge for ready-made software that lets governments surveil their citizens and foreign adversaries alike and to do so more easily…
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May 24, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Browser Security Google on Thursday rolled out fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has been exploited in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-5274, the vulnerability relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It was reported by…
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Introduction The infamous Colonial pipeline ransomware attack (2021) and SolarWinds supply chain attack (2020) were more than data leaks; they were seismic shifts in cybersecurity. These attacks exposed a critical challenge for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs): holding their ground while maintaining control over cloud security in the accelerating world of DevOps. The problem was…
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