Google Dynamic Search Ads Abused to Unleash Malware ‘Deluge’
An advanced feature of Google targeted ads can allow a rarely precedented flood of malware infections, rendering machines completely useless.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- October 31, 2023
- October 30, 2023
For Cyber Villains, Every Day is Halloween
For Cyber Villains, Every Day is Halloween How to Protect Yourself from Spine-Chilling Social Engineering Tricks Remember when your parents checked your Halloween candy before you wolfed it down? Hopefully your cybersecurity company is just as vigilant! While Halloween comes just once a year, the risk from cyber villains is a clear and ever-present danger. […]
Cyber ThoughtsWhite House Executive Order on AI Provides Guidelines for AI Privacy and Safety
The Biden administration directed government organizations, including NIST, to encourage responsible and innovative use of generative AI.
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Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- October 30, 2023
New malware campaign uses MSIX packages to infect Windows PCs
A new cyberattack campaign has been found to be using MSIX — a Windows application packaging format — to infect Windows PCs and evade detection by dropping a stealthy malware loader into its victim’s PC. Developers commonly use MSIX to package, distribute, and install their applications to Windows users, and is now being used for […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- October 30, 2023
What the Boardroom Is Missing: CISOs
From communicating why security should be a priority to advocating for accountability and greater focus on protecting data in the cloud, CISOs can make the case for keeping people and sensitive data secure.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsFriday Squid Blogging: On the Ugliness of Squid Fishing
And seafood in general: A squid ship is a bustling, bright, messy place. The scene on deck looks like a mechanic’s garage where an oil change has gone terribly wrong. Scores of fishing lines extend into the water, each bearing specialized hooks operated by automated reels. When they pull a squid on board, it squirts […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- October 29, 2023
10 Tips for Security Awareness Training That Hits the Target
Try these tricks for devising an education program that gets employees invested — and stays with them after the training is over.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- October 29, 2023
Researchers Uncover Wiretapping of XMPP-Based Instant Messaging Service
New findings have shed light on what’s said to be a lawful attempt to covertly intercept traffic originating from jabber[.]ru (aka xmpp[.]ru), an XMPP-based instant messaging service, via servers hosted on Hetzner and Linode (a subsidiary of Akamai) in Germany. “The attacker has issued several new TLS certificates using Let’s Encrypt service which were used to […]
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