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

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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.

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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

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15 Oct

Amazon textbook rental service scammed for $1.5m

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
15 Oct

Virus Bulletin: Old malware never dies – it just gets more targeted

Putting a precision payload on top of more generic malware makes perfect sense for malware operators Virus Bulletin this year brought a fresh batch of

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15 Oct

When it comes to ransomware, your fightback should start long before you’re attacked

WEBCAST You wouldn’t want to learn to box just as Tyson Fury steps out of the opposing corner. Likewise, the time to learn how to

Author rabih
15 Oct

When it comes to ransomware, your fightback should start long before you’re attacked

WEBCAST You wouldn’t want to learn to box just as Tyson Fury steps out of the opposing corner. Likewise, the time to learn how to

Author rabih
15 Oct

White House ransomware summit calls for virtual asset crackdown, without mentioning cryptocurrency

The 30-nation gabfest convened under the auspices of the US National Security Council’s Counter-Ransomware Initiative has ended with agreement that increased regulation of virtual assets

Author rabih
15 Oct

Client-side content scanning as an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy

Fourteen of the world’s leading computer security and cryptography experts have released a paper arguing against the use of client-side scanning because it creates security

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14 Oct

WhatsApp’s got your back(ups) with encryption for stored messages

Facebook’s WhatsApp on Thursday began a global rollout of end-to-end (E2E) encryption for message backups, which offers Android and iOS users with the ability to

Author rabih
14 Oct

Google’s VirusTotal reports that 95% of ransomware spotted targets Windows

Google’s VirusTotal service showing that 95 per cent of ransomware malware identified by its systems targets Windows. VirusTotal, acquired by Google in 2012, operates a

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14 Oct

China Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL): A New Take on GDPR?

Many people have heard of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), legislation that became law across the EU in May 2018.  It was designed to

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