Security Breaches January 3, 2019 Free Decryptor for Fileslocker Ransomware Developed After Master Key Leaked A free decryptor for Fileslocker ransomware has been developed following the leaking of the master key for the ransomware on Pastebin. The master key is ... Read more
Security Breaches January 2, 2019 Tribune Publishing Cyberattack Cripples Several U.S. Newspapers A recent malware attack on Tribune Publishing has caused disruption to several newspaper print runs including those of the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Tribune, ... Read more
Cyber Threats January 1, 2019 FTC Issues Warning About New Netflix Phishing Scam The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has issued a warning about a new global Netflix phishing scam that attempts to fool Netflix subscribers into disclosing their ... Read more
Security Breaches December 28, 2018 Orange Livebox Modems Leaking WiFi Information Hackers are exploiting a flaw (CVE-2018-20377) in Orange Livebox ASDL modems that allows them to obtain the SSID and the Wi-Fi password of the devices ... Read more
Security Breaches December 27, 2018 More Than 50 Accounts Compromised in San Diego School District Data Breach A major data breach has been reported by the San Diego School District that has potentially resulted in the theft of the personal information of ... Read more
Security Breaches December 20, 2018 Backdoor and Ransomware Detections Increased More than 43% in 2018 The recently published Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018 shows there has been a 43% increase in ransomware detections and a 44% increase in backdoor detections in ... Read more
Cyber Threats December 20, 2018 Actively Exploited Internet Explorer Flaw Patched by Microsoft Microsoft has issued an out of band update for Internet Explorer to correct a vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. The Internet ... Read more
Security Breaches December 18, 2018 New Office 365 Phishing Attack Detected A new Office 365 phishing attack has been identified that uses alerts about message delivery failures to lure unsuspecting users to a website where they ... Read more
Cyber Threats December 17, 2018 Fortinet FortiMail Given AAA Rating in SE Labs Phishing Detection Test Fortinet’s FortiMail Secure Email Gateway has recently been independently tested by SE Labs and has been shown to be highly effective at identifying and blocking ... Read more
Tools & Practices December 12, 2018 Microsoft and Adobe December 2018 Patch Tuesday Updates December 2018 Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft issue patches for 39 vulnerabilities, 10 of which have been rated critical, and two are being actively exploited ... Read more
Cyber Threats December 6, 2018 Adobe Patches Actively Exploited 0-Day Vulnerability in Flash Player On Wednesday, December 5, 2018, Adobe issued an update to correct a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that is being leveraged by a threat group ... Read more
Compliance December 4, 2018 Webinar: Cost-Effective DNS-Based Web Filtering In order to protect against web-based threats such as malware, ransomware, viruses, exploit kits, malvertising, and phishing, businesses need to implement a web filtering solution. ... Read more
Tools & Practices December 3, 2018 Why a Cloud Management Solution Should be Your Toolset-for-the-Cloud It’s quite appropriate that the words “tool” and “solution” are frequently used interchangeably in the field of cloud computing, because it is possible to make ... Read more
Security Breaches November 30, 2018 Spotify Phishing Scam Detected: User Accounts Breached Researchers at AppRiver have detected a Spotify phishing scam that attempts to get users to reveal their Spotify credentials. The emails use brand imaging that ... Read more
Security Breaches November 30, 2018 Marriott Announces 500 Million-Record Breach of Starwood Hotel Guests’ Data The Marriott hotel chain has announced it has suffered a massive data breach that has resulted in the theft of the personal information of up ... Read more
Cyber Threats November 29, 2018 49% of All Phishing Sites Have SSL Certificates and Display Green Padlock Almost half of phishing sites now have SSL certificates, start with HTTPS, and display the green padlock to show the sites are secure, according to ... Read more
Trends & Reports November 28, 2018 Major Malvertising Campaign Detected: 300 Million Browser Sessions Hijacked in 48 Hours A major malvertising campaign is being conducted that is redirecting web users to phishing and scam websites. While malvertising campaigns are nothing new, this one ... Read more
Security Breaches November 27, 2018 California Wildfire-Themed BEC Attack Identified It is common for phishers to use natural disasters as a lure to obtain ‘donations’ to line their pockets rather than help the victims and ... Read more
Tools & Practices November 26, 2018 Five Stats about Cloud Usage in 2018 Narrowing down the volume of forecasts, predictions and trends into five stats about cloud usage in 2018 is quite difficult, as most lists try to ... Read more
Cyber Threats November 22, 2018 APT28 Group Uses New Cannon Trojan in Spear Phishing Campaign Targeting US and EU Government Agencies A new spear phishing campaign is being conducted by the AP28 (Sofacy Group/Fancy Bear/Sednit) on government organizations in the United States, Europe, and a former ... Read more
Cyber Threats November 21, 2018 Gmail Flaw Allows Phishing Emails to Be Sent Anonymously A Gmail flaw has been discovered that allows emails to be sent anonymously with no information included in the sender field. The flaw could easily ... Read more
Cyber Threats November 20, 2018 Critical AMP for WP Plugin Vulnerability Allows Any User to Gain Admin Rights A new critical WordPress plugin vulnerability has been identified that could allow site users to escalate privileges to admin level, giving them the ability to ... Read more
Cyber Threats November 20, 2018 TA505 APT Group Spreading tRat Malware in New Spam Campaigns The prolific APT group TA505 is conducting spam email campaigns spreading a new, modular malware variant named tRAT. tRAT malware is a remote access Trojan ... Read more
Security Breaches November 15, 2018 Phishing Accounts for 50% of All Fraud Attacks An analysis of current cyber fraud threats by network security firm RSA shows that phishing attacks have increased by 70% since Q2 and now account ... Read more
Tools & Practices November 14, 2018 Microsoft Patches 12 Critical Vulnerabilities on November Patch Tuesday Microsoft has issued patches for 12 critical vulnerabilities in November Patch Tuesday and has fixed a flaw that is being actively exploited by at least ... Read more
Compliance November 9, 2018 Eutelsat Chooses TitanHQ to Secure its WiFi Networks The leading European satellite operator Eutelsat has implemented a new Wi-Fi filtering solution to secure its Wi-Fi networks. Eutelsat is one of the world’s largest ... Read more
Cyber Threats November 7, 2018 Zero-Day VirtualBox Vulnerability and Exploit Published Details of a zero-day VirtualBox vulnerability have been published online along with a step by step exploit. The vulnerability in the Oracle open source hosted ... Read more
Tools & Practices November 7, 2018 Trump Spam Dominates Email Subject Lines in Run up to Mid-Terms Donald Trump is well known for his claims to be the biggest and best and now he can make a new claim, having been named ... Read more
Tools & Practices November 7, 2018 Z Services Expands TitanHQ Partnership to Provide New Cloud-Based Security Services The Dubai-based managed service provider Z Services has expanded its partnership with TitanHQ and is now offering cloud-based web filtering and in-country email archiving as ... Read more
Trends & Reports November 6, 2018 Elon Musk Bitcoin Scam Generates $180,000 in a Day The promise of payment of a sizable sum in return for a small payment is a classic scam that has been conducted in various forms ... Read more