12 Sep

Mastercard splurges $2.65B on another big cyber purchase – Recorded Future

Mastercard has added another security asset to its growing portfolio, laying down $2.65 billion for threat intelligence giant Recorded Future. It’s a blue chip buy

Author rabih
12 Sep

Adobe patches Acrobat bug, neglects to mention whole zero-day, exploit thing

Adobe’s patch for a remote code execution (RCE) bug in Acrobat doesn’t mention that the vulnerability is considered a zero-day nor that a proof-of-concept (PoC)

Author rabih
12 Sep

Google Chrome gets a mind of its own for some security fixes

Google has enhanced Chrome’s Safety Check so that it can make some security decisions on the user’s behalf. Safety Check debuted in 2020 as a

Author rabih
12 Sep

Transport for London confirms 5,000 users’ bank data exposed, pulls large chunks of IT infra offline

Breaking Transport for London’s ongoing cyber incident has taken a dark turn as the organization confirmed that some data, including bank details, might have been

Author rabih
12 Sep

EU kicks off an inquiry into Google’s AI model

The European Union’s key regulator for data privacy, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), has launched a cross-border inquiry into Google’s AI model to ascertain if

Author rabih
12 Sep

About that Windows Installer ‘make me admin’ security hole. Here’s how it’s exploited

In this week’s Patch Tuesday Microsoft alerted users to, among other vulnerabilities, a flaw in Windows Installer that can be exploited by malware or a

Author rabih
12 Sep

Mind your header! There’s nothing refreshing about phishers’ latest tactic

Palo Alto’s Unit 42 threat intel team wants to draw the security industry’s attention to an increasingly common tactic used by phishers to harvest victims’

Author rabih
12 Sep

NIS2, DORA, and Tiber-EU expanding cybersecurity regulation

Webinar As cybersecurity threats evolve, so do the regulations designed to protect businesses. The latest frameworks – NIS2, DORA, and Tiber-EU – bring significant changes

Author rabih
12 Sep

If HDMI screen rips aren’t good enough for you pirates, DeCENC is another way to beat web video DRM

An anti-piracy system to protect online video streams from unauthorized copying is flawed – and can be broken to allow streamed media from Amazon, Netflix,

Author rabih
12 Sep

Pokémon GO was an intelligence tool, claims Belarus military official

A defense ministry official from Belarus has claimed augmented reality game Pokémon GO was a tool of Western intelligence agencies. Alexander Ilanov, head of the

Author rabih
12 Sep

Healthcare giant to pay $65M settlement after crooks stole and leaked nude patient pics

A US healthcare giant will pay out $65 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by its own patients after ransomware crooks stole their data

Author rabih
12 Sep

Hunters International cyber-gang extorts Chinese mega-bank’s London HQ

Ransomware gang Hunters International reportedly claims to have stolen more than 5.2 million files belonging to the London branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank

Author rabih
11 Sep

Cyber crooks shut down UK, US schools, thousands of kids affected

Cybercriminals closed some schools in America and Britain this week, preventing kindergarteners in Washington state from attending their first-ever school day and shutting down all

Author rabih
11 Sep

Major sales and ops overhaul leads to much more activity … for Meow ransomware gang

The Meow ransomware group has grabbed the second most active gang spot in an unexpected surge in activity following a major brand overhaul. Meow surfaced

Author rabih
11 Sep

Hunters International claims ransom on Chinese mega-bank’s London HQ

Ransomware gang Hunters International reportedly claims to have stolen more than 5.2 million files belonging to the London branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank

Author rabih
11 Sep

So you paid a ransom demand … and now the decryptor doesn’t work

For C-suite execs and security leaders, discovering your organization has been breached, your critical systems locked up and your data stolen, then receiving a ransom

Author rabih
11 Sep

How $20 and a lapsed domain allowed security pros to undermine internet integrity

While trying to escape the Las Vegas heat during Black Hat last month, watchTowr Labs researchers decided to poke around for weaknesses in the WHOIS

Author rabih
11 Sep

Mind the talent gap: Infosec vacancies abound, but hiring is flat

The shortfall between the number of working security professionals and the number of security job openings has reached 4.8 million – a new high, according

Author rabih
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