The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that paying ransom to cybercriminals is now illegal. In an official advisory, the agency stated that organizations that facilitate ransomware payments to hackers on behalf of...
Digitization has helped businesses immensely, especially, in the ongoing pandemic. It has allowed robustness through business continuity, remote working capability, and online supply chain management. However, this has given birth to a new threat landscape that stretches from our...
With so much banking being done online, financial service providers are no stranger to cyberthreats. However, the recent COVID-19 pandemic is being blamed for a 238% increase in cyberattacks against banks and other financial institutions, according to the latest...
The year 2020 saw over 27 billion records exposed in the first half and 2019 saw about 14 billion records exposed. The driving force behind these incidents has been exposed databases and cloud service misconfiguration. Now, while enterprises may...
Health insurer Anthem agreed to pay $39.5 million to settle another class action suit related to a cyberattack in 2015 that exposed the personal data of nearly 79 million people. The settlement is related to an investigation brought by...
Deemed as an “unusual” security threat upon its discovery last year, the InterPlanetary Storm malware has resurfaced into the wild with a few add-on capabilities. It is now targeting Mac and Android-based IoT devices in addition to the Windows...
Security experts from IT giant HP announced that it has discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in certain versions of its HP Device Manager, a software that allows system administrators to manage their HP Thin Client devices. In a security advisory,...
All those extra cups of coffee, long hours at the desk with our headphones on, and staying glued to our screens for the past three days, sounds tiring! However, it was worth every penny. The curtains have fallen on...
Security researchers from SafetyDetectives discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch server belonging to an Indian e-learning platform Edureka, which exposed the personal information of around 2 million users. The researchers stated that the server was left online without password protection, allowing...
After leaving the position of CISO vacant for months, Twitter has finally hired cybersecurity veteran Rinki Sethi to the role. Sethi will report to Nick Tornow, Platform Lead of Twitter. In her role, she will work closely with teams...
