Silk Road Thief Pleads Guilty to $3.4bn Raid
Man stole 50,000 Bitcoin from notorious dark web marketplace
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- November 8, 2022
The 15 biggest data breaches of the 21st century
In today’s data-driven world, data breaches can affect hundreds of millions or even billions of people at a time. Digital transformation has increased the supply of data moving, and data breaches have scaled up with it as attackers exploit the data-dependencies of daily life. How large cyberattacks of the future might become remains speculation, but […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsSwiss Re: Cyber-Insurance Industry Must Reform
Some 90% of risk is still uninsured, warns industry giant
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsSMBs Fear Security Budget Cuts as Inflation Bites
Concerns come amid worries over ransomware surge
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsPrepare, respond & recover: Battling complex Cybersecurity threats with fundamentals
The cybersecurity industry has seen a lot of recent trends. For example, the proliferation of multifactor authentication (MFA) to fight against credential harvesting is a common thread. Threat actors have been creating legitimate-looking phishing campaigns, which have been a big driver for this trend. Although some of the tools for MFA can be complex, proper […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsVultur Android Banking Trojan Reaches 100,000+ Downloads on Google Play Store
The dropper hides behind a fake utility app with limited permissions and a small footprint
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsMedibank Refuses to Pay Ransom After Data Breach
Medibank believes there is a limited chance paying a ransom would return customers’ data
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsMedibank refuses to pay ransom after 9.7 million health insurance customers have their data stolen
Embattled Australian health insurer Medibank says that it will not pay a ransom to cyber extortionists who stolen the personal data of almost ten million customers. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- November 7, 2022
Public URL scanning tools – when security leads to insecurity
Never make your users cry/By how you use an API
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends