This was a scam, but there was just enough care taken to convince people it was legitimate. Over $69k was sent to the attackers’ Bitcoin wallet showing the scheme was highly successful. click here...
The findings from the Comparitech study show that Wall Street investors are largely unconcerned with ransomware attacks aside from a very brief sell-off when news of the attack is first published. click here to...
Adoption of online learning environments due to COVID-19 and higher rates of ransomware and phishing attacks against K-12 schools have increased focus on the unique cybersecurity challenges they face. click here to read full...
Download full report (PDF) The Incident response analyst report provides insights into incident investigation services conducted by Kaspersky in 2020. We deliver a range of services to help organizations when they are in need:...
“WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors,” ProPublica claims. click here to read full Article...
This week, the U.K. NCSC has published a guide on how IT administrators can add the new button to Outlook on Microsoft Office 365 suites across their organizations to report phishing emails. click here...
Through this guidance, CISA and NSA officials hope to provide system administrators with a secure baseline for future Kubernetes configurations that will avoid intrusions by hackers. click here to read full Article Read More...
The British government wants to make Amazon, Google, and other digital service providers report cybersecurity breaches to the Information Commissioner, according to newly published plans. click here to read full Article Read More on...
Released by the panel on Tuesday, the report expresses concerns about the state of federal agencies’ cyber posture during an overall 8% rise in security incidents across agencies. click here to read full Article...
The month of April 2021 saw the active distribution of a new DDoS botnet called Simps — the name under which it introduced itself to its victims — that was distributed via YouTube and...
For more than four years, the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research...
The latest AppSec Stats Flash report from NTT Application Security has found that the remediation rate for severe vulnerabilities is on the decline, while the average time to fix is on the rise. click...
In a new release from Gartner, researchers have estimated that cyberattackers will have weaponised operational technology (OT) environments to successfully harm or kill humans by the year 2025. click here to read full Article...
Pegasus spyware is believed to have targeted phones of around 50,000 people belonging to hundreds of government officials, opposition politicians, journalists, activists, and business executives, reveals an investigation carried out by 17 major media...
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has issued new stricter vulnerability disclosures regulations that mandate security researchers uncovering critical flaws in computer systems to mandatorily disclose them first-hand to the government authorities within two...
In the fiscal year 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) conducted a risk assessment of 37 attack techniques mapped to six infection stages across multiple stakeholders in different sectors. click here to...
