Twitter was in the news last year when accounts of celebrities got hacked, and their accounts were taken over. Scammers targeted nearly 130 Twitter accounts of well-known personalities, including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, and corporate accounts of...
The world faced a growing spate of ransomware attacks in 2020. While malware was planted on systems throughout the year, it was detected only at the end of the year. According to a recent report, more than 500 successful...
Ransomware gangs are evolving every day. The latest trend suggests that they are after the backup servers or machines that contain backed up data. Why? Because once these are compromised, their victims have no option but to pay the...
Microsoft has released Application Guard for Office, a defensive technology that detains untrusted Office documents from accessing trusted resources on a user’s device. The new defensive service prevents malware or malicious files from penetrating a device’s operating system or...
Security experts at AT&T Alien Labs uncovered a new detection evasion tool leveraged by threat actor group TeamTNT. Dubbed “Libprocesshider,” the new tool is copied from open-source repositories. It helps cybercriminals hide their malware and malicious process from process...
After Thanksgiving, the working class, especially the IT workforce, CISOs and CIOs, would have loved to sit back and sip on hot chocolate during the holiday season. After all, the COVID-19 pandemic stretched their resources beyond imagination as they...
The online media and entertainment industry has been recently bombarded by multiple cyberattacks. So much so that the gaming industry has itself reported nearly 10 billion cyberattacks in only the last two years. However, the latest findings from ESET...
The Office of the Washington State Auditor (SAO) is inspecting a security incident after unemployment claims data of over 1.4 million Washington state residents were exposed in a third-party data breach. State Auditor Pat McCarthy attributed the data breach...
The U.K. Research and Innovation (UKRI) center confirmed that it suffered a ransomware attack that encrypted sensitive data and affected two of its services – a portal for the U.K. Research Office (UKRO) based in Brussels and an extranet...
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has uncovered an ongoing cyber campaign targeting security experts working on vulnerability research and development at various organizations. In an official release, the security giant stated that threat actors behind the campaign are linked...
