05 Feb

More mass exploits hit the same buggy Ivanti devices

All manner of miscreants are piling onto the latest Ivanti flaw, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-21893, according to threat hunters tracking

Author rabih
05 Feb

Ignore Uncle Sam’s ‘voluntary’ cybersecurity goals for hospitals at your peril

Interview If you are responsible for infosec at a US hospital or other healthcare organization, and you treat the government’s new “voluntary” cybersecurity performance goals

Author rabih
05 Feb

AnyDesk revokes signing certs, portal passwords after crooks sneak into systems

AnyDesk has copped to an IT security “incident” in which criminals broke into the remote-desktop software maker’s production systems. The biz has told customers to

Author rabih
05 Feb

Lurie Children’s Hospital back to pen and paper after cyberattack

For the second time in one week, cybercriminals have targeted a Chicago children’s hospital, this time causing significant operational disruption. Lurie Children’s Hospital said it

Author rabih
05 Feb

Could your Valentine be a scammer? How to avoid getting caught in a bad romance

Scams With Valentine’s Day almost upon us, here’s some timely advice on how to prevent scammers from stealing more than your heart Imogen Byers 05

Author rabih
05 Feb

SBF likely off the hook for misplaced FTX funds after cops bust SIM swap ring

Infosec In Brief The recent indictment of a massive SIM-swapping ring may mean convicted crypto conman Sam Bankman-Fried is innocent of at least one allegation

Author rabih
03 Feb

Researchers remotely exploit devices used to manage safe aircraft landings and takeoffs

Criminals could remotely tamper with the data that apps used by airplane pilots rely on to inform safe takeoff and landing procedures, according to fresh

Author rabih
02 Feb

Blackbaud settles with FTC after that IT breach exposed millions of people’s info

Blackbaud, which had data on millions of people stolen from it by one or more crooks, has promised to shore up its IT defenses in

Author rabih
02 Feb

Critical vulnerability in Mastodon is pounced upon by fast-acting admins

Mastodon has called admins to action following the disclosure of a critical vulnerability affecting the decentralized social network favored by erstwhile Twitter lovers. With a

Author rabih
02 Feb

Grandoreiro banking malware disrupted – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video The banking trojan, which targeted mostly Brazil, Mexico and Spain, blocked the victim’s screen, logged keystrokes, simulated mouse and keyboard activity and displayed fake

Author rabih
02 Feb

Interpol’s latest cybercrime intervention dismantles ransomware, banking malware servers

Interpol has arrested 31 people following a three-month operation to stamp out various types of cybercrime. Spanning 55 countries, from Albania to Australia, Operation Synergia

Author rabih
02 Feb

Wikileaks source and former CIA worker Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years jail

Joshua Schulte, a former CIA employee and software engineer accused of sharing material with WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison by the US

Author rabih
02 Feb

Managing the hidden risks of shadow APIs

Partner Content Application programming interfaces (APIs) play a significant role in today’s digital economy, but at the same time they can also represent a data

Author rabih
02 Feb

Cloudflare sheds more light on Thanksgiving security breach in which tokens, source code accessed by suspected spies

Cloudflare has just detailed how suspected government spies gained access to its internal Atlassian installation using credentials stolen via a security breach at Okta in

Author rabih
01 Feb

Ransomware payment rates drop to new low – now ‘only 29% of victims’ fork over cash

Trusting a ransomware crew to honor a deal isn’t the greatest idea, and the world seems to be waking up to that. It’s claimed that

Author rabih
01 Feb

Rise of deepfake threats means biometric security measures won’t be enough

Cyber attacks using AI-generated deepfakes to bypass facial biometrics security will lead a third of organizations to doubt the adequacy of identity verification and authentication

Author rabih
01 Feb

Congress told how Chinese goons plan to incite ‘societal chaos’ in the US

Chinese attackers are preparing to “wreak havoc” on American infrastructure and “cause societal chaos” in the US, infosec, and law enforcement bosses told a US

Author rabih
01 Feb

Rise of deepfake threats mean biometric security measures won’t be enough

Cyber attacks using AI-generated deepfakes to bypass facial biometrics security will lead a third of organizations to doubt the adequacy of identity verification and authentication

Author rabih
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