Earlier this month, Russian authorities ordered the shutdown of various mobile Internet base stations in order to disrupt the digital communication channels of protesters during mass demonstrations …
Automation, visibility remain biggest issues for cybersecurity teams
A new survey by Fidelis Cybersecurity reveals that the majority of infosec professionals are very concerned about a lack of automation (57.43%) and of visibility (53.39%) in their …
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Chinese government hackers suspected of moonlighting for profit
FireEye researchers have discovered that members of the notorious Chinese state-backed cyber espionage group APT41 are making money on the side by carrying out ransomware campaigns targeting game …
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Vectra: Ransomware attacks are spreading to cloud, datacenter, and enterprise infrastructure
An extensive report on ransomware by Vectra highlights how ransomware actors turn compromised networks into their most powerful weapon during an attack, as it allows them to encrypt shared …
Smominru hijacks half a million PCs to mine cryptocurrency, steals access data for Dark Web sale
Carbon Black researchers are tracking a cryptomining campaign that has already infected more that 500,000 machines with Smominru malware that enslaves them into a massive botnet. According …
49% of all risky online transactions come from mobile devices
A new report by iovation that analyzes billions of fraudulent online transactions between January 2016 and June of this year shows that in the first six months of 2019, nearly half (49%) of these …
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State Farm Accounts Compromised in Credential Stuffing Attack
Insurance and financial services group State Farm has suffered a credential stuffing attack in which the login credentials of an unknown number of customers were compromised. In a credential stuffing …
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CafePress Slammed After Major Breach Affecting 23 Million
Infosec professionals are criticizing online retailer CafePress for failing to adequately inform users that the platform recently suffered a major breach that exposed the personal data of 23 million …
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New Windows hack warning: Patch Intel systems now to block SWAPGSAttack exploits
Security researchers at Bitdefender have discovered a critical vulnerability in Intel processors that can enable attackers to get CPU chips to leak sensitive information via a side-channel attack. The …
Pakistani Man Bribed AT&T Employees to Unlock Phones, Plant Malware
The US Justice Department has indicted a Pakistani man named Muhammad Fahd for paying around $1 million in bribes to AT&T employees at a call center in Bothell, Washington to unlock phones and …
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