Researchers with Secureworks warn that while threat actors are targeting firms with increasingly sophisticated attack campaigns, "the same issues and security gaps are blighting organizations' ability …
Nearly 20% of Organizations Still Run Windows 7
A new study by Kollective shows that 18% of large enterprises are still relying on Windows 7, even though Microsoft support for this operating system will end in January of 2020. While 96% of IT …
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Infographic: Why email is your weakest security link
Avanan has released a new infographic showing why email is the weakest link in cybersecurity. According to the report, 1 out of every 99 emails people receive at work is actually a phishing message. …
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Instagram Account Takeover Vulnerability Earns Hacker $30,000
Facebook recently paid $30,000 to a security researcher who found a critical flaw that could have enabled threat actors to hack Instagram accounts by taking advantage of the app's password recovery …
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Evite Invites Over 100 Million People to Their Data Breach
Earlier this year, popular social-planning website Evite experienced a data breach affecting close to 101 million users. The website haveibeenpwned.com, which allows people to verify if their personal …
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Meet DoppelPaymer, BitPaymer’s Ransomware Lookalike
A new ransomware strain detected by CrowdStrike researchers closely resembles the BitPaymer ransomware used by the Indrik Spider group. The new variant, dubbed DoppelPaymer, emerged on the scene in …
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Hackers Can Manipulate Media Files Transferred via WhatsApp, Telegram
Symantec researchers have discovered that the highly popular messaging apps WhatsApp and Telegram are both vulnerable to what the researchers can “Media File Jacking,” which involves the manipulation …
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Hacker steals data of millions of Bulgarians, emails it to local media
An unidentified threat actor who claims to have stolen the personal data of more than five million Bulgarian citizens (out of a population of 7 million), has leaked 11 GB worth of data to local media …
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Beyond Wipro: Meet the ‘Gift Cardsharks’ Behind the Massive Campaign Targeting Victims with Commercially Available Tools
In April of this year various reports suggested that Indian IT outsourcing and consulting services giant Wipro experienced a significant breach affecting some of the companies it provided services …
Threatlist: 68% of Overwhelmed IT Managers Can’t Keep Up with Cyberattacks
According to an extensive Sophos survey conducted among 3,100 IT decision-makers across 12 countries, many companies continue to suffer cyberattacks "despite good intentions and behaviors." In fact, …
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