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Private tech companies gather tremendous amounts of user data. These companies can afford to let you use social media platforms free of charge because it’s paid for by your data, attention, and time.   Big tech derives most of its profits by selling your attention to advertisers — a well-known business model. Various documentaries (like Netflix’s
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ReversingLabs researchers discovered a new ransomware family targeting Linux-based systems in South Korea. Dubbed GwisinLocker, the malware was detected by ReversingLabs on July 19 while undertaking successful campaigns targeting firms in the industrial and pharmaceutical space. “In those incidents, it often launched attacks on public holidays and during the early morning hours (Korean time) – looking to
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Learn the basics of zero-trust, and how building a zero-trust environment can protect your organization. This week, ESET’s security evangelist Tony Anscombe participated in a panel on zero-trust architecture during ChannelCon. He explains what zero-trust means, and the basic practises any organisation should implement to protect themselves. Watch the video to learn more.
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Whether using the internet for play or work, you want to spend your time online enjoying the peace of mind that comes with having a secure network.  You don’t want to contend with someone taking your personal data — whether it’s credit card information, passwords, or bank account details — via malware or a data
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A threat actor working to further Iranian goals is said to have been behind a set of disruptive cyberattacks against Albanian government services in mid-July 2022. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant said the malicious activity against a NATO state represented a “geographic expansion of Iranian disruptive cyber operations.” The July 17 attacks, according to Albania’s National Agency
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Cybersecurity-focussed non-profit CREST has partnered up with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) to release the OWASP Verification Standard (OVS). The move aims to provide mobile and web app developers with enhanced security assurance and accredited organizations with improved access to the app development industry. “Both CREST and OWASP are non-profit organizations and we
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European missile maker MBDA has publicly denied some of the hacking allegations against the company made on a dark web forum in July and posted on Twitter by Today Cyber News on Tuesday. The self-proclaimed hacking group who first made the allegation went under the name “Andrastea,” and claimed to have obtained roughly 60 GB of
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by Paul Ducklin Cryptocurrency protocol Nomad (not to be confused with Monad, which is what PowerShell was called when it first came out) describes itself as “an optimistic interoperability protocol that enables secure cross-chain communication,” and promises that it’s a “security-first cross-chain messaging protocol.” In plain English, it’s supposed to let you swap cryptocurrency tokens
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Threat actors are increasingly mimicking legitimate applications like Skype, Adobe Reader, and VLC Player as a means to abuse trust relationships and increase the likelihood of a successful social engineering attack. Other most impersonated legitimate apps by icon include 7-Zip, TeamViewer, CCleaner, Microsoft Edge, Steam, Zoom, and WhatsApp, an analysis from VirusTotal has revealed. “One
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Google published its monthly security bulletin for August on Monday, detailing the latest available patches for Android. A total of 37 vulnerabilities have been patched, including a critical security flaw in the System component that could lead to remote code execution via Bluetooth with no additional execution privileges needed. The Bluetooth vulnerability is tracked as
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by Paul Ducklin The best-known cryptographic library in the open-source world is almost certainly OpenSSL. Firstly, it’s one of the most widely-used, to the point that most developers on most platforms have heard of it even if they haven’t used it directly. Secondly, it’s probably the most widely-publicised, sadly because of a rather nasty bug
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Security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability called ParseThru affecting Golang-based applications that could be abused to gain unauthorized access to cloud-based applications. “The newly discovered vulnerability allows a threat actor to bypass validations under certain conditions, as a result of the use of unsafe URL parsing methods built in the language,” Israeli cybersecurity firm
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Security researchers are warning of a new phishing campaign which tries to hurry users into making poor decisions by presenting them with a countdown clock. Cofense recently spotted the credential harvesting campaign, which arrives in the form of an alert email about a non-existent ‘suspicious login’ to their account. Purporting to come from a fake
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A cyber-attack on the US justice system has compromised a public document management system, revealed lawmakers on the Hill yesterday. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, revealed the attack at a hearing on oversight of the Justice Department on Thursday. Nadler said three hostile actors had breached the Public Access to Court Electronic Records