20 Oct

Crims target telcos’ Linux and Solaris boxes, which don’t get enough infosec love

A mysterious criminal gang is targeting telcos’ Linux and Solaris boxes, because it perceives they aren’t being watched by infosec teams that have focussed their

Author rabih
20 Oct

Acer servers cracked in India and Taiwan – including systems with customer data

Taiwanese PC maker Acer has not only admitted servers it operates in India and and Taiwan were compromised but that only those systems in India

Author rabih
20 Oct

You’ve heard of HTTPS. Now get a load of HTTPA: Web services in verified remote trusted environments?

Two Intel staffers believe web services can be made more secure by not only carrying out computations in remote trusted execution environments, or TEEs, but

Author rabih
19 Oct

BlackMatter ransomware gang will target agriculture for its next harvest – Uncle Sam

The US CISA cybersecurity agency has warned that the Darkside ransomware gang, aka BlackMatter, has been targeting American food and agriculture businesses – and urges

Author rabih
19 Oct

Scrambling to counter a ransomware attack could leave you with egg on your face

Sponsored When you read about security teams “scrambling” to respond to a ransomware attack, what do you think is the real problem? Ransomware and other

Author rabih
19 Oct

Email phishing crapcannon operators TA505 are back from the dead, researchers warn

A prolific email phishing threat actor – TA505 – is back from the dead, according to enterprise security software slinger Proofpoint. TA505, which was last

Author rabih
19 Oct

UK competition watchdog unveils principles to make a kinder antivirus business

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has unveiled compliance principles to curb locally some of the sharper auto-renewal practices of antivirus software firms. The

Author rabih
19 Oct

Social Networks Account Stealer Hidden in Android Gaming Hacking Tool

Authored by: Wenfeng Yu McAfee Mobile Research team recently discovered a new piece of malware that specifically steals Google, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram and PUBG game

Author rabih
19 Oct

Reg scribe spends week being watched by government Bluetooth wristband, emerges to more surveillance

Feature My family and I recently returned to Singapore after an overseas trip that, for the first time in over a year, did not require

Author rabih
19 Oct

Is There Really Such a Thing as a Low-Paid Ransomware Operator?

Introduction Going by recent headlines you could be forgiven for thinking all ransomware operators are raking in millions of ill-gotten dollars each year from their

Author rabih
19 Oct

Japanese messaging giant Line admits it mishandled user data, promises to do better

Line, the Japan-based messaging and payments app with millions of users around Southeast Asia, has conceded that its data protection regimes had multiple shortcomings, and

Author rabih
18 Oct

Microsoft called out as big malware hoster – thanks to OneDrive and Office 365 abuse

Microsoft has been branded as “the world’s best malware hoster for about a decade,” thanks to abuse of the Office 365 and Live platform, as

Author rabih
18 Oct

Unravel the XDR Noise and Recognize a Proactive Approach

Cybersecurity professionals know this drill well all too well. Making sense of lots of information and noise to access what really matters. XDR (Extended Detection

Author rabih
18 Oct

Chinese tech minister says he’s ‘dealt with’ 73,000 sites that breached the law

A 36-year-old man from Portage, Michigan, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly renting thousands of textbooks from Amazon and selling them rather than returning them.

Author rabih
18 Oct

Chinese tech minister says he’s ‘dealt with’ 73,000 websites that breached the law

A 36-year-old man from Portage, Michigan, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly renting thousands of textbooks from Amazon and selling them rather than returning them.

Author rabih
18 Oct

Whatever sort of disaster we’re talking about, if your backups are fried, you’re not going to recover

Sponsored When you’re putting your enterprise security and data management strategy in place, should you worry more about ransomware or natural disasters? Yes, of course,

Author rabih
18 Oct

US gov claims ransomware ‘earned’ $590m in the first half of 2021 alone – mostly in Bitcoin

Ransomware extracted at least $590 million for the miscreants who create and distribute it in the first half of 2021 alone – more than the

Author rabih
17 Oct

NFTs not annoying enough? Now they come with wallet-emptying malware

In brief Whether or not non-fungible tokens are a flash in the pan or forever, malware operators have been keen to weaponise the technology. An

Author rabih
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