Research experts from Netskope Cloud warned security teams about the surge in the use of risky apps and websites by the remote workforce, globally. In its report “Cloud and Threat Report - August 2020” Netskope Cloud stated that the...
Have you seen the Tom Cruise flick Minority Report? One of its themes is precrime or the ability to predict a crime before it happens. Well, CYFIRMA, a Singapore-based threat discovery and cyber-intelligence analytics company, seems to have come...
Check Point, in its research dubbed “Achilles,” discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Qualcomm's Snapdragon Digital Signal Processor (DSP) chips, exposing over 40% of all smartphones globally to cyberattacks. If exploited successfully, the vulnerabilities allow threat actors to take control of...
Tanium, a unified endpoint security provider, has partnered with Google Cloud to collectively fight against advanced persistent threats (APTs) to the distributed business operations keeping in mind the ongoing and post COVID-19 era. This handshake brings together Tanium’s Threat...
Security researchers Alvaro Munoz of GitHub and Oleksandr Mirosh of Micro Focus Fortify discovered over 30 security vulnerabilities in 20 content management systems (CMS), including Microsoft SharePoint, Alfresco, and Atlassian Confluence. Munoz and Mirosh presented their findings at the...
Across the Middle East, the COVID-19 pandemic is causing Middle East organizations to rapidly enable remote working for their knowledge workers. As these trends toward remote work or mixed environments become the “New Normal,” there are major cybersecurity implications....
Researchers at Barracuda, a provider of cloud-enabled security solutions, has warned users about threat actors who create accounts with legitimate email services and use them to launch business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The researchers identified 6,170 malicious accounts that...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI Group) has confirmed a third-party unauthorized network access to its systems located in the Nagoya region of Japan. The network breach was observed on May 21, by its IT team when an unauthorized external communication...
Security experts from FireEye discovered a fake news campaign spreading false stories, quotes, and other documents related to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The campaign is targeted at people in Lithuania, Poland, and Latvia.
The disinformation campaign, dubbed as...
Information security provider CynergisTek and network detection and response company Awake Security joined hands to help protect health care providers from cyberthreats. The California-based firms are jointly developing an online threat assessment program that combines human expertise in digital...
