Cyber Threats May 13, 2019 Warning Issued over Electricfish Malware used by North Korea-Backed Threat Group Hidden Cobra US-CERT has issued a warning about a new malware variant dubbed Electricfish, which is reportedly being used by the North Korea-backed threat group Hidden Cobra, ... Read more
Security Breaches May 10, 2019 Antivirus Tool Used by Dharma Ransomware to Hide Malicious Activity Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered the threat actors behind Dharma ransomware are using a legitimate AV tool to hide the malicious activities of ... Read more
Security Breaches May 10, 2019 Chinese Nationals Charged over 78.8 Million-Record Anthem Inc Hack The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that two Chinese nationals have been charged over the 2015 hacking of Anthem Inc., and three other cyberattacks ... Read more
Security Breaches May 9, 2019 City of Baltimore Suffers Second Ransomware Attack in 14 Months A ransomware attack on the City of Baltimore has forced the city to take most of its servers offline. This is the second such attack ... Read more
Security Breaches May 8, 2019 Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report Reveals Latest Cyberattack Trends Verizon has released its 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report. The annual report provides an in-depth analysis of global data breaches, new cyberattack trends, and an ... Read more
Security Breaches May 7, 2019 Large Enterprises Targeted in Major MegaCortex Ransomware Campaign A new strain of MegaCortex ransomware is being used in targeted attacks on large enterprises. The campaign has seen a large number of attacks performed ... Read more
Security Breaches May 6, 2019 Businesses Are Not Well Prepared to Deal with Serious Security Breaches A recent survey conducted by Vanson Bourne on 600 IT decision makers has revealed confidence in the ability to respond to a serious data breach ... Read more
Security Breaches May 3, 2019 PII of 137,000 Individuals Discovered in Unsecured Elasticsearch Database An unsecured Elasticsearch database containing the personally identifiable information of approximately 137,000 people has been exposed over the Internet. The database was discovered by security ... Read more
Compliance May 2, 2019 DHS Orders Federal Agencies to Address Critical Vulnerabilities Within 15 Days The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued a binding operational directive (BOD) which requires all federal agencies to correct critical vulnerabilities in Internet-accessible systems ... Read more
Trends & Reports May 1, 2019 TitanHQ Releases WebTitan Cloud v4.12 TitanHQ has released an update for its award-winning web filtering platform WebTitan Cloud. The latest version of the DNS filtering solution – WebTitan Cloud v4.12 ... Read more
Security Breaches May 1, 2019 Sodinokibi Ransomware Spread via Oracle WebLogic Server Exploit A new ransomware variant named Sodinokibi is being used in attacks that exploit a recently disclosed vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server – CVE-2019-2725. Oracle released ... Read more
Security Breaches May 1, 2019 Popular Mail Clients Vulnerable to Digital Signature Spoofing Attacks Digital signatures confirm the sender of an email is genuine, that an email is authentic, and has not been intercepted and altered in transit. However, ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 30, 2019 Biggest Malware Threats in Healthcare Revealed A recent report from Malwarebytes has revealed Trojans are the biggest malware threat. Trojans account for 79% of all malware detected on healthcare systems by ... Read more
Trends & Reports April 26, 2019 AppRiver Customers can Now Benefit from ZixEncrypt Email Encryption AppRiver has announced the first cross-over since the company was acquired by Zix in February 2019. AppRiver customers can now access Zix’s email encryption offering, ... Read more
Security Breaches April 26, 2019 Latest Phishing Attack Trends Revealed Proofpoint has released its Q4 2018 quarterly threat analysis which reveals the latest phishing attack trends and provides an insight into the types of individuals ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 25, 2019 Exploitable Flaws Discovered in New WPA3 Wi-Fi Security Standard The next generation of Wi-Fi security – WPA3 – was launched in the summer of 2018, which promised to be the most secure form of ... Read more
Security Breaches April 24, 2019 FBI’S 2018 Internet Crime Report Shows Massive Increase in BEC Attack Losses The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2018 Internet Crime Report which shows there was a dramatic rise in ... Read more
Security Breaches April 23, 2019 Security Researcher Who Thwarted WannaCry Ransomware Pleads Guilty to Malware Development and Distribution The security researcher who identified and activated the kill switch in WannaCry ransomware in 2017 and played a critical role in stopping the global attacks ... Read more
Security Breaches April 23, 2019 Google to Start Blocking Logins from Embedded Browsers to Help Combat MitM Attacks Sign-ins to Google from embedded browser frameworks will soon be blocked. Google announced on Thursday, April 18 that the change is being made to improve ... Read more
Compliance April 20, 2019 Cybercriminals Turn to PDF Files to Deliver Malicious Payloads Q1, 2019 saw a marked increase in the use of PDF files to deliver malware, according to the Q1 2019 Cyber Threat Report from SonicWall. ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 19, 2019 New Malvertising Campaign Detected Using Highly Sophisticated Aftershock-3PC Malware A new form of malware named Aftershock-3PC is being used in a major malvertising campaign. The malware uses a range of advanced techniques to avoid ... Read more
Compliance April 18, 2019 297 Flaws Patched by Oracle in its April Security Update Oracle’s April security update includes patches for 297 vulnerabilities across its product suite. Users of Oracle products have been advised to update the products as ... Read more
Security Breaches April 17, 2019 Phishing Attacks Increased by 40.9% in 2018 The 2019 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report from PhishLabs shows there was a 40.9% increase in phishing attacks in 2018. Attacks increased steadily during Q1 ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 16, 2019 DHS and FBI Issue Warning About New North Korean Hoplight Trojan The U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have both issued advisories about a new Trojan called Hoplight which ... Read more
Security Breaches April 16, 2019 Microsoft Confirms Support Agent’s Credentials were Compromised and Customers’ Email Data Potentially Accessed Microsoft has experienced a data breach that has lasted at least three months. During that time, hackers were able to access affected users’ email addresses, ... Read more
Tools & Practices April 15, 2019 SpamTitan Leading Secure Email Gateway Solution According to G2 Crowd Selecting the best business security software can be a headache. Even when business leaders know exactly what they want from a software solution, choosing the ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 12, 2019 A Quarter of Phishing Emails Bypass Office 365 Anti-Phishing Defenses Microsoft Office 365 default anti-phishing defenses are bypassed by a quarter of all phishing emails, according to new research from cybersecurity firm Avanan. Avanan conducted ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 11, 2019 Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Still Dominates the Malware Threat Landscape The latest Global Threat Index report from Check Point shows cryptocurrency mining malware continues to be the biggest malware threat, even with the demise of ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 11, 2019 The Baldr Information Stealer: A Dangerous New Malware Threat A new information stealer has been detected which could become a long-term threat. The Baldr information stealer is not especially sophisticated and lacks persistence, but ... Read more
Tools & Practices April 10, 2019 Adobe Patches 24 Critical RCE Vulnerabilities Adobe has patched 43 vulnerabilities on April 2019 Patch Tuesday. 24 of the vulnerabilities have been rated critical and are remote code execution vulnerabilities. They ... Read more