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Researchers have spotted an Emotet trojan email campaign leveraging environmental activist Greta Thunberg’s popularity to infect computers in in Europe and Asia. The trojan campaign uses climate activist’s name to target domains with .com and .edu (as Greta is...
Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks recently announced that it has completed the acquisition of Aporeto Inc., a machine identity-based micro-segmentation company. The acquisition will further strengthen the Palo Alto Networks Cloud-Native Security Platform delivered by Prisma Cloud. Palo Alto Networks...
By Rudra Srinivas The Banking and Financial sectors were hit with a constant stream of cyber-attacks when compared to other sectors. According to Intsights Q1 2019 report, around 25.7 percent of all malware attacks last year were targeted on banks...
Researchers have discovered a cyberespionage group called “Rancor” which has been distributing a new malware campaign “Dudell” via Microsoft Excel documents. According to researchers at Palo Alto Networks, Rancor threat group has been active since 2017 and has been targeting...
The U.S. Navy recently banned short video sharing app TikTok, citing cybersecurity concerns. The U.S. Navy has also sent out a statement stating that serving members of both the Navy and the Army, who were using government-issued mobile devices...
After the slew of cyber-attacks that had married the Chinese smartphone manufacturer, OnePlus, it has now launched its own bug bounty program named as “OnePlus Security Response Center” (OneSCR). The company invited independent security researchers to participate and be...
A new malware campaign is targeting organizations in the U.S. and Europe with an attack that delivers a six-in-one malware. It includes info-stealing trojans, a remote backdoor, crypto-stealer and a crypto-miner. Since there are multiple types of malware infested...
In a bizarre incident, to comply with the legal requirements imposed by the German National Research and Education Network (DFN), 38,000 students of Justus Liebig University (JLU) in Gießen, Germany, had to stand in queues to get new passwords...
The authorities of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics recently issued a warning about an ongoing phishing campaign. It’s said that the suspicious emails are designed to look like they're coming from the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and...
Wawa Stores, an American chain of convenience stores and gas stations, is the latest victim of a massive financial data breach. According to Chris Gheysens, Wawa’s CEO, the company discovered a malware payload in its payment processing systems on December...