Research indicates that an infostealer malware infection is often a precursor to a ransomware attack SpyCloud, the leader in Cybercrime Analytics, today announced new cybersecurity research highlighting the growing and alarming threat of infostealers – a type of malware designed to exfiltrate digital identity data, login credentials, and session cookies from infected devices. SpyCloud’s latest […]
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Australia’s Federal Police (AFB) said it hacked into a dedicated encrypted communication platform, Ghost, to dismantle global criminal operations. The action was carried out as part of “Operation Kraken,” a law enforcement action that concluded with the arrest of a New South Wales man, 32, for allegedly creating and administrating Ghost. “An alleged mastermind behind […]
Can cyber defenders use the presence of infostealers as a canary in the coal mine to preempt ransomware attacks? Go to Source Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer
The evolution of software always catches us by surprise. I remember betting against the IBM computer Deep Blue during its chess match against the grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, only to be stunned when the machine claimed victory. Fast forward to today, would we have imagined just three years ago that a chatbot could write […]
CISOs may be intimately familiar with the dozens of forms of authentication for privileged areas of their environments, but a very different problem is arising in areas where authentication has traditionally been neither needed nor desired. Domains such as sales call centers or public-facing sites are fast becoming key battlefields over personhood, where AI bots […]
A North Korea-linked cyber-espionage group has been observed leveraging job-themed phishing lures to target prospective victims in energy and aerospace verticals and infect them with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MISTPEN. The activity cluster is being tracked by Google-owned Mandiant under the moniker UNC2970, which it said overlaps with a threat group known as TEMP.Hermit, […]
Google has announced that it’s rolling out a new set of features to its Chrome browser that gives users more control over their data when surfing the internet and protects against online threats. “With the newest version of Chrome, you can take advantage of our upgraded Safety Check, opt out of unwanted website notifications more […]
The GSM Association, the governing body that oversees the development of the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol, on Tuesday, said it’s working towards implementing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to secure messages sent between the Android and iOS ecosystems. “The next major milestone is for the RCS Universal Profile to add important user protections such as interoperable […]
Increasing attacks by the OilRig/APT34 group linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security show that the nation’s capabilities are growing, and targeting regional allies and enemies alike. Go to Source Author: Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer
It’s safe to say that Madison Horn is the only candidate for US Congress in history who has ever injected Taylor Swift lyrics into a teleprompter during a pen test. A few years ago, while working in cybersecurity at a global consulting firm, Horn conducted that white-hat hacking demo to show her client, a media […]