Ransomware victims have paid $459,800,000 to cybercriminals in the first half of 2024, setting the stage for a new record this year if ransom payments continue at this level. […]
Monthly Archives: August 2024
CISA has added a critical Jenkins vulnerability that can be exploited to gain remote code execution to its catalog of security bugs, warning that it’s actively exploited in attacks. […]
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Here’s how our bioacoustic foundation model, Health Acoustic Representations (HeAR), may help improve health outcomes for people across India.
Suspected hackers behind the heist of $14,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency from blockchain tech firm Holograph was arrested in Italy after living a lavish lifestyle for weeks in the country. […]
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New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end […]
Written by Vaibhav Dutta, Associate Vice President and Global Head-Cybersecurity Products & Practice, Tata Communications.Originally published on Frontier Enterprise.Ransomware activity alone was up 50% year-on-year during the first half of 2023. We have been seeing a relentless rise in the number and sophistication of cyber threats, with ransomware incidents reporting a 13% increase while phishing […]
Flight tracking platform FlightAware is asking some users to reset their account login passwords due to a data security incident that may have exposed personal information. […]
A new type of malware called UULoader is being used by threat actors to deliver next-stage payloads like Gh0st RAT and Mimikatz. The Cyberint Research Team, which discovered the malware, said it’s distributed in the form of malicious installers for legitimate applications targeting Korean and Chinese speakers. There is evidence pointing to UULoader being the […]
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a surge in malware infections stemming from malvertising campaigns distributing a loader called FakeBat. “These attacks are opportunistic in nature, targeting users seeking popular business software,” the Mandiant Managed Defense team said in a technical report. “The infection utilizes a trojanized MSIX installer, which executes a PowerShell script to
According to recent research on employee offboarding, 70% of IT professionals say they’ve experienced the negative effects of incomplete IT offboarding, whether in the form of a security incident tied to an account that wasn’t deprovisioned, a surprise bill for resources that aren’t in use anymore, or a missed handoff of a critical resource or account. […]