A Ukrainian national who has been wanted by the U.S for over a decade has been arrested by Swiss authorities for his role in a notorious cybercriminal ring that stole millions of dollars from victims’ bank accounts using malware called Zeus. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, who went by online pseudonyms “tank” and “father,” is said to […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsAnnouncement recognizes growing volume of smartphone payments
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsTwitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system: Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those who rely on an authenticator app or physical authentication token to secure their Twitter account may not have reason to test the mechanism. But users have been self-reporting issues on Twitter since the […]
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A China-based financially motivated group is leveraging the trust associated with popular international brands to orchestrate a large-scale phishing campaign dating back as far as 2019. The threat actor, dubbed Fangxiao by Cyjax, is said to have registered over 42,000 imposter domains, with initial activity observed in 2017. “It targets businesses in multiple verticals including retail, […]
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Don’t let a keen eye for bargains lead you into risky online behaviour…
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe NCSC’s founding CEO, Ciaran Martin, explains why the cyber industry is now a public good
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsSince releasing SecureX orchestration, we’ve regularly published two types of content for our customers to import and use: atomic actions and workflows. Atomic actions are small, re-usable functions that allow you to do simple things like isolating an endpoint in Cisco Secure Endpoint. Workflows are more complex combinations of activities, often made up of multiple […]
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ACM.114 Create a security group with a specific user’s IP address This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. In the last post I explained how failure to report errors causes systems and software to break. Why You Should Not Swallow Errors Now we’re going to move on to deploying a user-specific VM on AWS. […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsNew research analyzes email scam techniques in the build-up to this year’s Black Friday
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