Two People Arrested in Australia and US for Development and Sale of Hive RAT 2024-04-15 at 14:46 By Ionut Arghire Authorities in Australia and the US have arrested and charged two individuals for developing and selling the Hive RAT. The post Two People Arrested in Australia and US for Development and Sale of Hive RAT […]
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RubyCarp: Insights Into the Longevity of a Romanian Cybercriminal Gang 2024-04-12 at 18:46 By Kevin Townsend Operational for at least ten years, RubyCarp has its own botnet, its own tools, and its own community of users that concentrate on cryptomining and credential phishing. The post RubyCarp: Insights Into the Longevity of a Romanian Cybercriminal Gang
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LastPass Employee Targeted With Deepfake Calls 2024-04-12 at 12:31 By Ionut Arghire LastPass this week revealed that one of its employees was targeted in a phishing attack involving deepfake technology. The post LastPass Employee Targeted With Deepfake Calls appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source
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IMF: Financial Firms Lost $12 Billion to Cyberattacks in Two Decades 2024-04-11 at 15:31 By Ionut Arghire The financial sector has suffered over 20,000 cyberattacks in two decades, causing more than $12 billion in losses. The post IMF: Financial Firms Lost $12 Billion to Cyberattacks in Two Decades appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is
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WEF Cybercrime Atlas: Researchers are creating new insights to fight cybercrime 2024-04-10 at 07:31 By Zeljka Zorz In early 2023, the World Economic Forum (WEF) launched Cybercrime Atlas, with the intent to map the cybercriminal ecosystem by facilitating collaboration between private and public organizations. What does this collaboration look like in practice? We’ve asked Sean
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Healthcare IT Help Desk Employees Targeted in Payment-Hijacking Attacks 2024-04-08 at 17:01 By Ionut Arghire The US Department of Health warns of financially motivated social engineering attacks targeting healthcare organizations. The post Healthcare IT Help Desk Employees Targeted in Payment-Hijacking Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View
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Lens Maker Hoya Scrambling to Restore Systems Following Cyberattack 2024-04-05 at 14:16 By Ionut Arghire Japanese lens maker Hoya says production processes and ordering systems were disrupted by a cyberattack. The post Lens Maker Hoya Scrambling to Restore Systems Following Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View
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Omni Hotels suffer prolonged IT outage due to cyberattack 2024-04-04 at 17:32 By Zeljka Zorz Texas-based Omni Hotels & Resorts has been responding to a cyberattack that started last Friday, which resulted in the unavailability of many of its IT systems. According to people staying at some of the 50 properties the company operates across
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Cyberattack Causes Disruptions at Omni Hotels 2024-04-04 at 17:32 By Eduard Kovacs Omni Hotels & Resorts tells customers that recent disruptions have been caused by a cyberattack that forced it to shut down systems. The post Cyberattack Causes Disruptions at Omni Hotels appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed
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US gov’t commits $3.6M to address cybersecurity skill shortage 2024-04-04 at 13:01 By Cointelegraph by Savannah Fortis NIST allocated nearly $3.6 million in cooperative agreements to enhance the cybersecurity workforce aiming to combat the growing threat of cyberattacks. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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76% of consumers don’t see themselves as cybercrime targets 2024-04-04 at 06:01 By Help Net Security 67% of consumers across the globe are concerned about the security and privacy of AI, according to Bitdefender survey. AI uses personal data to feed its machine learning algorithms, and the rising amount has raised serious concerns about data
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Elevating the Stakes: The Enhanced Arsenal of the Fake E-Shop Campaign 2024-04-03 at 10:16 By neetha871ad236bd Key Takeaways Overview In September 2022, Cyble Research and Intelligence Lab (CRIL) noted a substantial uptick in the prevalence of the fake e-shop campaign, which had been actively targeting Malaysia, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Initially identified in 2021, the campaign
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Human risk is the top cyber threat for IT teams 2024-04-03 at 06:32 By Help Net Security After another year rife with cybercrime, IT and cyber leaders are confronted with a new reality. AI and deepfakes can trick even the most well-trained employee, and executing a strong cyber defense is more important than ever. In
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Escalating malware tactics drive global cybercrime epidemic 2024-04-01 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Evasive, basic, and encrypted malware all increased in Q4 2023, fueling a rise in total malware, according to WatchGuard. Threat actors employ diverse tactics The average malware detections rose 80% from the previous quarter, illustrating a substantial volume of malware threats
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AI abuse and misinformation campaigns threaten financial institutions 2024-03-29 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Though generative AI offers financial firms remarkable business and cybersecurity utility, cyberthreats relating to GenAI in financial services are a consistent concern, according to FS-ISAC. Cybercriminals exploit AI for data exfiltration The cybersecurity community’s current consensus is that adversarial usage
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Zero-day exploitation surged in 2023, Google finds 2024-03-28 at 17:17 By Zeljka Zorz 2023 saw attackers increasingly focusing on the discovery and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party libraries (libvpx, ImagelO) and drivers (Mali GPU, Qualcomm Adreno GPU), as they can affect multiple products and effectively offer more possibilities for attack. Another interesting conclusion from
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Solana Drainer’s Source Code Saga: Tracing Its Lineage to the Developers of MS Drainer 2024-03-28 at 13:31 By neetha871ad236bd Key Takeaways Overview A crypto drainer is a malicious script designed to swiftly drain cryptocurrency wallets, transferring the assets into the attackers’ control. These drainers have evolved over time, initially targeting crypto wallet such as MetaMask
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Elon Musk offers free premium features on X, crypto scammers included 2024-03-28 at 11:04 By Cointelegraph by Arijit Sarkar Elon Musk rolled out the paid verification model on X, earlier known as “Twitter Blue,” to fight the scammers and spammers thriving on the platform before his takeover. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News
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AI weaponization becomes a hot topic on underground forums 2024-03-28 at 06:31 By Help Net Security The majority of cyberattacks against organizations are perpetrated via social engineering of employees, and criminals are using new methods including AI to supercharge their techniques, according to ReliaQuest. Some 71% of all attacks trick employees via the use of
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Cybercriminals use cheap and simple infostealers to exfiltrate data 2024-03-28 at 06:01 By Help Net Security The rise in identity-based attacks can be attributed to a rapid increase in malware, according to SpyCloud. Researchers found that 61% of data breaches in 2023, involving over 343 million stolen credentials, were infostealer malware-related. Of these compromised identity
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