With the volume of attacks on enterprises increasing by the day, it is no longer sufficient to do occasional or manual penetration testing. Organizations usually test “some” of their assets “some of the time,” whereas hackers are attacking “all...
As the world celebrates Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Google announced new security precautions to make users’ sign-in process more secure. The search engine unveiled its plan to auto-enroll 150 million Google users in a two-step verification (2SV) process and it...
The attack vector of Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) attackers is extended across various countries. Multiple cybercriminal groups from Russia have targeted several international critical agencies across the globe. But surprisingly, security researchers from Positive Technologies uncovered a...
The spread of mobile malware has become rampant in the cyberthreat landscape. More threat actor groups are leveraging mobile malware to infect handsets and to compromise personal data. Security researchers from Proofpoint recently uncovered a new mobile malware, distributed via SMS, targeting Android users in...
Social media platforms are ingrained into the lives of billions of people across the globe and the unavailability of any one of them brings their life to a grinding halt. This is what billions of users of Facebook and...
While IT leaders believe they have strong security practices in place, their continual search for additional network security capabilities suggests that this confidence may be tentative, according to new research from Forward Networks, a provider of network assurance and...
Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase admitted that unknown intruders bypassed its multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanism to steal crypto funds from over 6,000 users.
“Unfortunately, between March and May 20, 2021, you were a victim of a third-party campaign to gain unauthorized...
IT administrators are having sleepless nights as threat perimeters are perpetually trending north and vectors getting guileful and evading detection. In its Q2 2021 Internet Security Report, WatchGuard Technologies detailed the trend observed around network security and malware getting...
The cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, with threat actors leveraging new hacking techniques to penetrate and exploit critical infrastructure. While organizations are worried about misconfigurations and poor security practices, human errors remain a major cause of cyberattacks and data...
The number of ransomware attacks has increased drastically. According to a report from security firm Barracuda, ransomware attacks grew 64% year-on-year between August 2020 and July 2021. The report says these attacks were carried out by a “handful of...
