Clicker Malware Garners Estimated 20 Million Downloads
Google forced to remove over a dozen malicious apps
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsOn the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers
Many years ago, Matt Blaze and I talked about getting our hands on a casino-grade automatic shuffler and looking for vulnerabilities. We never did it—I remember that we didn’t even try very hard—but this article shows that we probably would have found non-random properties: …the executives had recently discovered that one of their machines had […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsEnsuring Security in M&A: An Evolution, Not Revolution
Scott Heider is a manager within the Cisco Security Visibility and Incident Command team that reports to the company’s Security & Trust Organization. Primarily tasked with helping to keep the integration of an acquired company’s solutions as efficient as possible, Heider and his team are typically brought into the process after a public announcement of […]
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- October 24, 2022
When CISOs are doomed to fail, and how to improve your chances of success
There’s a joke cryptographer Jon Callas likes to tell: CISO stands for Chief Intrusion Scapegoat Officer, “because CISOs are often thrown into a position where they can’t succeed.” Callas, who is the director of public interest tech at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that security officers are often “simultaneously in charge and powerless.” They know […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsUK Construction Biz Fined £4.4m for Serious Security Failings
Interserve slammed by regulator after employee data breach
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsAmid real estate volatility, cybercriminals are profiting
This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. It is easy to think of cybercrime as a phenomenon only impacting the digital space. However, as trends are showing, digital attacks have a very real and very physical impact. According to the FBI, there has been a surge in rental and real estate property scams conducted via […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsEuropean Police Warn of Metaverse Cyber-Threats
Cops also identify opportunities to enhance law enforcement
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- October 24, 2022
CISA Warns of Daixin Team Hackers Targeting Health Organizations With Ransomware
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have published a joint advisory warning of attacks perpetrated by a cybercrime gang known as the Daixin Team primarily targeting the healthcare sector in the country. “The Daixin Team is a ransomware and data extortion group that has targeted the HPH Sector with ransomware and data extortion operations since at least June […]
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- October 24, 2022
SideWinder APT Using New WarHawk Backdoor to Target Entities in Pakistan
SideWinder, a prolific nation-state actor mainly known for targeting Pakistan military entities, compromised the official website of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to deliver a tailored malware called WarHawk. “The newly discovered WarHawk backdoor contains various malicious modules that deliver Cobalt Strike, incorporating new TTPs such as KernelCallBackTable injection
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