Month: November 2024
A new phishing campaign dubbed ‘CRON#TRAP’ infects Windows with a Linux virtual machine that contains a built-in backdoor to give stealthy access to corporate networks. Using virtual machines to conduct attacks is nothing new, with ransomware gangs and cryptominers using them to stealthily perform malicious activity. However, threat actors commonly install these manually after they…
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CRN showcases the hottest 100 edge computing companies, including the top 25 cybersecurity companies, 25 IoT and 5G vendors, and 50 hardware, software and services edge companies. Companies at the forefront of the global edge computing market range from cloud giants and cybersecurity superstars to hybrid work specialists and AI startups. With market research firm…
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CRN breaks down the head-to-head comparison of Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud’s recent financial earnings results for third-quarter 2024, including revenue, sales growth, cloud market share and operating income. The world’s three largest cloud computing companies have reported their financial earnings results for the third-quarter 2024 calendar year, with Google Cloud growing revenue the fastest,…
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CRN’s list of the 50 hottest hardware, software and services companies in edge computing this year ranges from innovative startups like Reskube to edge specialists such as Scale Computing to market leaders like Cisco Systems, Dell Technologies and Microsoft. Today’s innovative software and hardware companies continue to invest in edge computing technologies in 2024 as…
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The City of Columbus, Ohio, notified 500,000 individuals that a ransomware gang stole their personal and financial information in a July 2024 cyberattack. Ohio’s capital city (with a population of over 905,000) was hit by the ransomware attack on July 18. The resulting outages affected various services and IT connectivity between public agencies. City officials…
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Nov 04, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cyber Threat Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed six security flaws in the Ollama artificial intelligence (AI) framework that could be exploited by a malicious actor to perform various actions, including denial-of-service, model poisoning, and model theft. “Collectively, the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to carry out a wide-range of malicious actions…
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Preventing data loss, complying with regulations, automating workflows and managing access are four key challenges facing financial institutions. Learn how Tenable can help. Imagine a bustling bank, made not of bricks and mortar, but of a swirling mass of data in the cloud. Account numbers, transaction histories and personally identifiable information (PII) zip across servers,…
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the “Bi-Weekly Cyber Roundup” by Canary Trap. At Canary Trap, it is our mission to keep you up-to-date with the most crucial news in the world of cybersecurity and this bi-weekly publication is your gateway to the latest news. This week’s cybersecurity round-up covers critical developments across the industry.…
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Nov 04, 2024The Hacker NewsWeekly Recap / Cybersecurity This week was a total digital dumpster fire! Hackers were like, “Let’s cause some chaos!” and went after everything from our browsers to those fancy cameras that zoom and spin. (You know, the ones they use in spy movies? 🕵️♀️) We’re talking password-stealing bots, sneaky extensions that…
Read More![German Police Disrupt DDoS-for-Hire Platform dstat[.]cc; Suspects Arrested](https://kartwheelnewz.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/German-Police-Disrupt-DDoS-for-Hire-Platform-dstatcc-Suspects-Arrested.png)
Nov 04, 2024Mohit KumarDDoS Attack / Cybercrime German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called dstat[.]cc that made it possible for other threat actors to easily mount distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “The platform made such DDoS attacks accessible to a wide range of users, even those without any in-depth technical…
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