10 Sep

Shape-shifting cryptominer savages Linux endpoints and IoT

In brief AT&T cybersecurity researchers have discovered a sneaky piece of malware targeting Linux endpoints and IoT devices in the hopes of gaining persistent access

Author rabih
10 Sep

Shape-shifting cryptominer savaging Linux endpoints and IoT

In brief AT&T cybersecurity researchers have discovered a sneaky piece of malware targeting Linux endpoints and IoT devices in the hopes of gaining persistent access

Author rabih
09 Sep

Data tracking poses a ‘national security risk’ FTC told

The massive amounts of digital data being bought and sold — or sometimes freely shared — poses a grave national security risk, according to a

Author rabih
09 Sep

Feds freeze $30m in cryptocurrency stolen from Axie Infinity

Federal investigators and private companies seized $30 million in cryptocurrency stolen in March by North Korean-linked APT gang Lazarus Group from a video game developer,

Author rabih
09 Sep

Meta disbands Responsible Innovation team, spreads it out over Facebook and co

Facebook parent Meta has disbanded its Responsible Innovation Team (RIT) that it claimed last year was a central part of efforts to “proactively surface and

Author rabih
09 Sep

US seeks standards dominance, lets Huawei access previously forbidden crypto tech

The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has relaxed restrictions that barred export of some encryption technologies to Huawei, in the name

Author rabih
08 Sep

Dump these small-biz routers, says Cisco, because we won’t patch their flawed VPN

Cisco patched three security vulnerabilities in its products this week, and said it will leave unpatched a VPN-hijacking flaw that affects four small business routers.

Author rabih
08 Sep

Mandiant ‘highly confident’ foreign cyberspies will target US midterm elections

Mandiant is “highly confident” that foreign cyberspies will target US election infrastructure, organizations, and individuals in the run-up to the November midterm elections. Based on

Author rabih
08 Sep

Google urges open source community to fuzz test code

Google’s open source security team says OSS-Fuzz, its community fuzzing service, has helped fix more than 8,000 security vulnerabilities and 26,000 other bugs in open

Author rabih
08 Sep

Private equity suits at Thoma Bravo pull out of Darktrace acquisition

US private equity investor Thoma Bravo has pulled out of its planned takeover of Darktrace, causing shares in the UK cybersecurity company to plummet. London-based

Author rabih
08 Sep

5 Things About Doxing You Should Know

Have you ever said something you wish you could take back? Maybe it was a comment muttered in the heat of the moment that hurt

Author rabih
08 Sep

Lazarus Group unleashed a MagicRAT to spy on energy providers

The North Korean state-sponsored crime ring Lazarus Group is behind a new cyberespionage campaign with the goal to steal data and trade secrets from energy

Author rabih
08 Sep

What’s the secret behind a secure password?

Webinar Passwords are the first line of defense against bad actors gaining illegal access to data, a protective rampart that too often falls to common

Author rabih
08 Sep

Halfords slapped on wrist for breaching email marketing laws

Bike and car accessory retailer Halfords has found itself in the wrong lane with Britain’s data watchdog for sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited marketing

Author rabih
08 Sep

DoJ charges pair over China-linked attempt to build semi-autonomous crypto haven on nuked Pacific Atoll

About halfway between The Philippines and Hawaii is a place called Rongelap Atoll that’s infamous for having been unintentionally irradiated after 1954 nuclear weapons test

Author rabih
07 Sep

Ransomware protection from the top drawer

Webinar Statistics suggest that there was a ransomware attack on a company or organization every 11 seconds in 2021, but only 57 percent of the

Author rabih
07 Sep

US school year opens with reading, writing, and ransomware

The Vice Society threat group is ramping up ransomware attacks on US school districts just as students around the country return to the classroom, the

Author rabih
07 Sep

Mandiant links APT42 to Iranian ‘terrorist org’

Mandiant has named a new threat group, APT42, that it says functions as the cyberspy arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has

Author rabih
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