Browsing the "security" Tag

Trade

Microsoft acquires security start-up CloudKnox

23 Jul Firm continues to expand its security portfolio to secure its own cloud services

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Security

Google Cloud beefs up security following surge in ransomware attacks

21 Jul Financial services, retail, and healthcare sectors have been especially vulnerable to ransomware attacks

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Email

Microsoft cracks down on sophisticated BEC scam campaign

20 Jul The firm’s Digital Crime Unit seized a variety of malicious domains targeting Office 365 customers

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Spy

Pegasus: Report finds spyware used to target journalists, activists

20 Jul NSO Group sold the surveillance tool to authoritarian governments, investigation finds

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Money

What is phishing?

20 Jul From banking scams to industrial espionage, we look at why phishing is so lucrative

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Hacker

Cloudflare flaw could have led to series of supply-chain attacks

19 Jul Hackers were able to exploit a path traversal vulnerability to compromise CDNJS and target thousands of sites

Trade

Avast and Norton in talks over multi-billion dollar merger

15 Jul The two competitors could join forces to become the biggest name in the consumer security market

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Interpol

Interpol calls for more action to prevent ‘ransomware pandemic’

14 Jul Secretary General Jürgen Stock calls for a global coalition to fight the growing number of attacks

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Malware

REvil vanishes from the Web without a trace

14 Jul The mysterious shutdown comes only days after the ransomware group’s massive Kaseya cyber attack hit at least 1,000 businesses

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Kaspersky

Kaspersky Password Manager generates passwords that can be ‘cracked in seconds’

8 Jul A now-patched vulnerability means specialised tools can game Kaspersky's method for creating passwords

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Hacker at computer

Russian Cozy Bear hackers reportedly attacked the Republican party

8 Jul The same hackers are thought to be behind the recent SolarWinds campaign and cyber espionage targeting Covid-19 vaccine development

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Google Play

Google shuts down Play Store apps for stealing Facebook credentials

5 Jul The nine malicious Android apps boast nearly 6m downloads collectively

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Malware

REvil demands $70m ransom after Kaseya supply chain attack

5 Jul The cyber gang claims it’s infected “more than a million systems” after exploiting a zero-day flaw in VSA

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Hacker

US, UK security agencies warn against Russian ‘global brute force campaign’

2 Jul APT28 is accused of targeting hundreds of government and private sector targets worldwide

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Computer network breach or botnet

Diavol ransomware linked to Trickbot botnet

2 Jul Security researchers find links between Diavol malware and the Wizard Spider crime gang

TechBeat

Threat awareness biggest security issue for companies

2 Jul Interim TechBeat results show continued frustration with employees

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Hard drive

Western Digital to provide recovery services for hacked NAS drives

1 Jul Users affected by the cyber attack will be able to upgrade to a new My Cloud device

Life

LinkedIn denies data breach that reportedly exposed 700m user records

30 Jun Report claims 'breach' led to profiles belonging to 92% of LinkedIn users being put up for sale on a popular hacker forum

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SolarWinds hackers breach Microsoft support agent to target customers

28 Jun Nobelium engaged in password spray and brute-force attacks after implanting malware on a device belonging to a Microsoft employee

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Atlassian

Atlassian patches One-Click flaw that allowed hackers to steal user sessions

25 Jun With the stolen session, the hacker could steal sensitive information