When cops hack back: Dutch police fleece DEADBOLT criminals (legally!)
Crooks: Show us the money! Cops: How about you show us the decryption keys first?
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- October 21, 2022
- October 21, 2022
Multiple Campaigns Exploit VMware Vulnerability to Deploy Crypto Miners and Ransomware
A now-patched vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access has been observed being exploited to deliver both cryptocurrency miners and ransomware on affected machines. “The attacker intends to utilize a victim’s resources as much as possible, not only to install RAR1Ransom for extortion, but also to spread GuardMiner to collect cryptocurrency,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsGoogle Unveils Open Source Project to Improve Software Supply Chain Security
GUAC aims to bring together many different sources of software security metadata
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsNCSC CEO Calls for International Standards on IoT Security
Lindy Cameron argues that smart cities are becoming an attractive target for threat actors, including nation states
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThousands of Publicly Exposed API Tokens Could Threaten Software Integrity
JFrog scanned over eight million artifacts in the most common open-source software registries
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsCyber-Enabled Crimes Are Biggest Police Concerns
Interpol study warns that many threats are expected to increase
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsOldGremlin Ransomware Ups Ante Against Russian Targets
Ransom demands soar to $17m, according to new report
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsLesson Learned: How SolarWinds Strengthened its Security Post-Incident
Tim Brown, CISO and VP of security at SolarWinds shared his experiences remediating a major cyber-attack during Mandiant’s mWISE event on October 18, 2022
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- October 21, 2022
A Quick Look at the “Strengthening America’s Cybersecurity” Initiative
Acknowledging that you have a problem is the first step to addressing the problem in a serious way. This seems to be the reasoning for the White House recently announcing its “Strengthening America’s Cybersecurity” initiative. The text of the announcement contains several statements that anyone who’s ever read about cybersecurity will have heard many times […]
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