With Cloud the Norm, Insiders Are Everywhere — and Pose Greater Risk
After companies accelerated their adoption of cloud infrastructure, remote workers are now insiders and pose significant risks, and costs, …
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Targeted ransomware takes aim at QNAP NAS drives, warns vendor: Get your updates done pronto
QNAP has urged NAS users to act “immediately” to install its latest updates and enable security protections after warning that …
White House adopts zero trust strategy in move to strengthen cybersecurity – CNET
A memo to federal agencies lays out new measures to defend against a growing number of …
Russian APT29 hackers’ stealthy malware undetected for years
Hackers associated with the Russian Federation Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) continued their incursions on networks of multiple …
FBI warns over Iranian cyber group, tells organizations to up their defenses
The FBI has issued an alert detailing the tools, techniques and tactics of an Iranian group, giving US organizations tips to defend against …
Microsoft mitigated a record 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack on Azure users
Microsoft says its Azure DDoS protection platform mitigated a massive 3.47 terabits per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service …
A new highly evasive technique used to deliver the AsyncRAT Malware
Experts spotted a sophisticated malware campaign delivering the AsyncRAT trojan since September 2021. Researchers from Morphisec spotted a …
Ransomware gangs are recruiting breached individuals to persuade companies to pay up
You’ve heard about ransomware, where attackers lock up your files and demand a payment for the decryption key. You may also have heard …
EyeMed agrees $600,000 settlement over 2020 data breach
EyeMed has agreed to $600,000 in penalties to settle the case of a 2020 data breach that exposed the information of roughly 2.1 million …
Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC’s 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers’ locations
Britain’s tax collection agency asked a contractor to use the SS7 mobile phone signalling protocol that would make available location data …
Apple fixes Mac bug that could have allowed takeover of webcams and browser tabs
A researcher has picked up a $100,500 bounty from Apple after discovering a rather nasty method of gaining control of other people’s …
Attackers add rogue PC to victims’ networks in this sneaky phishing campaign
Microsoft has raised an alarm about a new multi-phase phishing campaign that first enrolls an attacker’s BYOD device on a corporate network …
Nearly $9bn Laundered in Cryptocurrency in 2021
Threat actors laundered $8.6bn in cryptocurrency last year, although the real figure could be much higher when “non-crypto” crimes are …
DeepDotWeb operator sentenced to eight years behind bars
The operator of the DeepDotWeb platform has been sentenced to just over eight years in prison. This week, the US Department of Justice …