Ransomware is so lucrative for the gangs involved that other parts of the cybercrime ecosystem are being repurposed into a system for delivering potential victims. “The gravitational force of ransomware’s black hole is pulling in …
Ransomware is now a giant black hole that is sucking in all other forms of cybercrime Read More »
Rest of World For many, the Facebook Papers come as no surprise. As a Palestinian digital rights advocate, the recent revelations perfectly describe and validate the archetypal experience of Palestinians and millions of others generating …
Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s a disaster Read More »
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has disclosed that an unidentified threat actor has been exploiting a previously unknown weakness in the FatPipe MPVPN networking devices at least since May 2021 to obtain an …
FBI Issues Flash Alert on Actively Exploited FatPipe VPN Zero-Day Bug Read More »
Today’s businesses run on data. They collect it from customers at every interaction, and they use it to improve efficiency, increase their agility, and provide higher levels of service. But it’s becoming painfully obvious that …
A Simple 5-Step Framework to Minimize the Risk of a Data Breach Read More »
Cyber-attacks aren’t just about siphoning bank accounts. They’re also targeting critical national infrastructure, warn experts – and we’re not doing a very good job of preventing them. How can we stop the rot and protect …
Defending critical infrastructure: The status quo isn’t working Read More »
The clearnet and dark web payment portals operated by the Conti ransomware group have gone down in what appears to be an attempt to shift to new infrastructure after details about the gang’s inner workings …
Experts Expose Secrets of Conti Ransomware Group That Made 25 Million from Victims Read More »
Less than two weeks before the 2020 US presidential election, tens of thousands of emails purportedly from the far-right group Proud Boys threatened to “come after” Democrats if they didn’t vote for Trump. As officials …
How Iran Tried to Undermine the 2020 US Presidential Election Read More »
The BrazKing Android banking trojan has returned with dynamic banking overlays and a new implementation trick that enables it to operate without requesting risky permissions. A new malware sample was analyzed by IBM Trusteer researchers …
Android malware BrazKing returns as a stealthier banking trojan Read More »
The U.S. Department of State is offering a $10 million reward for information about the activities of two Iranian nationals charged for cyber activity intended to “intimidate and influence” American voters during the 2020 U.S. …
US indicts Iranian hackers for Proud Boys voter intimidation emails Read More »
Thousands of Firefox cookie databases containing sensitive data are available on request from GitHub repositories, data potentially usable for hijacking authenticated sessions. These cookies.sqlite databases normally reside in the Firefox profiles folder. They’re used to …
Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub Read More »
Historically, when major game companies have talked about emulation, they’ve pigeonholed the technology primarily as a way for players to steal their IP through piracy. Now, though, Xbox chief Phil Spencer is urging the industry …
Why modern consoles can’t just “run any… older executable” Read More »
Security researchers discovered that attackers are also deploying a Linux backdoor on compromised e-commerce servers after injecting a credit card skimmer into online shops’ websites. The PHP-coded web skimmer (a script designed to steal and …
Hackers deploy Linux malware, web skimmer on eCommerce servers Read More »