Microsoft is making big changes to its cybersecurity approach. It comes after major cloud attacks in recent years and will mean an overhaul to how software is built inside Microsoft.
In recent years, cybercriminals have become increasingly professional — fraudsters have consistently been improving their skills, making less crucial mistakes, and creating various “as-a-service” businesses to help lower-skilled threat actors launch scams and attacks, allowing the latter to run full cybercrime operations.
There are different types of cybercrime services that exist today, including malware-as-a-service, where cybercriminals develop and sell malware services to other malicious actors; the service also includes creating and spreading malware types such as ransomware on compromised hosts. Meanwhile, other services require the use of multiple social media accounts to be successfully carried out, such as misinformation, spamming, and malware propagation. Indeed, it’s not uncommon for cybercriminals to send thousands of spam messages using thousands of accounts on social media platforms. But how do they manage to automate all of it?
Researchers speculate that Chinese authorities may be responsible for turning off one of the internet’s most prolific IoT botnets.
Despite having a population of just 1,400, until recently, Tokelau’s .tk domain had more users than any other country. Here’s why.
FIRST announces CVSS v4.0, the latest version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System. Discover how this update addresses critical vulnerabilities.
L'assureur qui veut s'opposer au paiement de la prestation d’assurance suite à une cyberattaque, en invoquant les sanctions américaines, doit prouver que la cyberattaque a servi les intérêts d'une entité visée par ces sanctions et qu'il risque ainsi concrètement d'être réprimandé par l'autorité américaine compétente. Le simple fait que le type de logiciel utilisé pour la cyberattaque en question soit habituellement déployé par un groupe de cyberpirates sous sanction (in casu Evil Corp) ne suffit pas pour refuser le paiement de la prestation d’assurance.
Octo Tempest employs tactics that many of its targets aren't prepared for.
Microsoft has been tracking activity related to the financially motivated threat actor Octo Tempest, whose evolving campaigns represent a growing concern for many organizations across multiple industries.
Boeing , one of the world's largest defense and space contractors, said on Wednesday it was investigating a cyber incident that impacted elements of its parts and distribution business and cooperating with a law enforcement probe into it.
La nouvelle loi sur la protection des données a introduit l’obligation d’établir, dans certains cas, une analyse d’impact relative à la protection des données personnelles (AIPD). Elle vise à identifier préalablement les risques potentiellement élevés pour la personnalité et les droits fondamentaux, afin de prendre les mesures adéquates pour les réduire à un niveau acceptable. Si l’exercice peut faire peur, il suffit de suivre quelques étapes très concrètes.
Apache ActiveMQ is a message broker service, designed to act as a communication bridge between disparate services. Developed in Java, it can broker multiple pr…
Hackers encrypted the servers of the municipal service provider Südwestfalen IT, leading the company to restrict access to its infrastructure for over 70 municipalities in western Germany.
According to ecrime.ch data, confirmed ransomware incidents occurred in 105 countries, originating from 58 ransomware groups. This number is relatively consistent with last year’s data, in which we calculated that incidents impacted organizations in 109 countries and documented at least 60 distinct ransomware families. Though the overall statistics remain relatively consistent from last year to this year, there is more to the story: new trends in the ecosystem include the shifting dynamics of ransomware groups, the rise of the education sector as a key target, and the trends in geographic distribution of attacks.
A threat actor that security researchers call Prolific Puma has been providing link shortening services to cybercriminals for at least four years while keeping a sufficiently low profile to operate undetected.
Undisclosed requests may bypass configuration utility authentication, allowing an attacker with network access to the BIG-IP system through the management port…
Australian software company Atlassian warned admins to immediately patch Internet-exposed Confluence instances against a critical security flaw that could lead to data loss following successful exploitation.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged SolarWinds and its top cybersecurity executive Timothy Brown with fraud and internal control
Check Point’s Harmony Email team has reported a startling increase of 587% in QR code phishing or Quishing attacks.
An international law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol resulted in the dismantling of one of the largest groups involved in the distribution of
Elastic Security Labs reveals details of a new campaign leveraging defense evasion capabilities to infect vicitms with malicious MSIX executables.
