Tag: Cyberattacks
Biden’s 100-Day Plan to Enhance Electric Grid Security
With the rising cybersecurity incidents in the U.S., the Biden administration is focusing on elevating the country’s security strategy to protect its critical infrastructure...
Justice Department to Launch Ransomware Taskforce
Ransomware operators continue to innovate hacking techniques to encrypt victims’ sensitive information and demand ransom or threaten targets of leaking their data online. Besides...
Emergency Directive! CISA Warns About Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities
Software programs often have flaws/vulnerabilities, which are often exploited by cybercriminals to gain access to victims’ data. Recently, federal agencies have been ordered to...
WhatsApp Pink and Fake Facebook Messenger Scams Explained
Cybercriminals often target businesses that hold large amounts of users’ sensitive information. And social networking services like Facebook and WhatsApp always top the list...
Chinese State-Actors Exploit Big Data for Financial Benefit
No doubt Big Data is helping organizations globally in growing their businesses at an unprecedented rate. It offers rich insights for decision-making and strategic...
CISOs are Struggling with Continuous Security Debts: Surveys
With the increase in the volume of cyberattacks, security leaders are changing their cybersecurity measures accordingly. However, cybercriminals too become consistent in advancing their...
Patch Now! Researchers Find Zero-Day Flaws in Google and Microsoft
The risks from cybercriminals exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities have become a continuous threat for organizations, globally. Recently, security experts from Kaspersky found a zero-day vulnerability...
“Every bit of compromised PII can be used for social engineering...
Marcus Fowler is Director of Strategic Threat at Darktrace. Before joining Darktrace in 2019, he spent 15 years at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...
Internet Swamped with Over 100K Pages Serving Malicious PDFs
Cybersecurity researchers found threat actors using search engines to lure business professionals into installing a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) inadvertently.
According to an analysis from...
SolarWinds Hack Orchestrated by Russia’s SVR, Claims U.S. and U.K.
Earlier in December 2020, the White House had acknowledged that a Russian state-sponsored group known as the Cozy Bear or APT 29 carried out...
