October 11, 2017 Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited Zero Day Vulnerabilities This Patch Tuesday has seen Microsoft issue several updates for critical vulnerabilities, some of which are being actively exploited in the wild. Microsoft is urging ... Read more
October 9, 2017 Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany Discovers Long-Term Malware Infection Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany (CCDA) has discovered, during a software upgrade in August 2017, that malware was installed on one of the ... Read more
October 5, 2017 SonicWall Announces its Capture APT Service Now Blocking More than 1,000 Unique Malware Variants Each Day San Jose, CA-based cybersecurity firm SonicWall is now blocking more than 1,000 new, unique malware variants each day and has seen 524% growth in the ... Read more
October 3, 2017 Ransomware and Phishing Rated Top Threats by IT Professionals A recent survey by Cyren, conducted by Osterman Research, has revealed the biggest concerns of IT professionals are ransomware and phishing. When asked about their ... Read more
September 27, 2017 More than 1 Million New Phishing Websites are Created Each Month The Quarterly Threat Trends Report published by WebRoot this month shows there has been a significant increase in the number of new phishing websites being ... Read more
September 22, 2017 2017 Has Seen Major Improvements in Phishing Awareness The latest Beyond the Phish Report from Wombat Security Technologies has shown employees are getting better at identifying phishing emails, and investment in security awareness ... Read more
September 19, 2017 Piriform Alerts Users That CCleaner Contained Malware Piriform’s CCleaner, a free PC cleaning app with 130 million users around the world, has been discovered to contain malware. Researchers at Cisco Talos recently ... Read more
September 12, 2017 LinkedIn Phishing Scam Uses InMail and Personal Messages to Obtain Sensitive Information A new LinkedIn Phishing scam has been detected that uses compromised LinkedIn Premium accounts to send InMail messages and private messages to other LinkedIn users. ... Read more
September 7, 2017 90% of IT Professionals Most Concerned About Phishing, Spear Phishing and Whaling Phishing, spear phishing, and whaling attacks are the leading cause of concern for IT professionals in the United States, according to the latest Phishing Response ... Read more
August 21, 2017 Webroot Acquires Securecast and Starts Offering Anti-Phishing Training Webroot, a leading provider of endpoint security systems, has announced it has acquired Securecast – A provider of a fully automated security awareness training platform. ... Read more
August 15, 2017 HITRUST and Trend Micro Partnership to Improve Cyber Threat Xchange Capabilities The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has partnered with Trend Micro to form the HITRUST Cyber Threat Management and Response Center which will enhance the ... Read more
July 21, 2017 Cisco Reports Fall in Exploit Kit Activity but Increase in Malware Delivery Via Email Exploit kit activity has fallen, but there has been a notable rise in the use of email as a vector for delivering malware, according to ... Read more
July 20, 2017 Call Issued for Federal Agencies to Adopt DMARC to Prevent Phishing Over the past few months there have been several cases of criminals impersonating government departments in phishing campaigns, prompting Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) to write ... Read more
July 13, 2017 Fortinet FortiMail Receives VBSpam+ Certification Topping List for Malware Detection For the eighth consecutive time, Fortinet’s FortiMail spam filtering solution as passed the Virus Bulletin test and has been awarded VBSpam+ Certification. The test confirms ... Read more
June 22, 2017 Patch Issued for Actively Exploited Drupal Vulnerability An actively exploited Drupal vulnerability – tracked as CVE-2017-6922 – has been patched this week. The flaw, which affects Drupal v 7.56 and 8.3.4, is ... Read more
May 29, 2017 Samba Vulnerability Could be Exploited in WannaCry Style Attacks A Samba vulnerability has been discovered that could potentially be exploited and used in network worm attacks akin to those used to deliver WannaCry ransomware ... Read more
May 6, 2017 Healthcare Cyber Threat Landscape to be Covered in HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum Over the next week, the HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum will be held in San Francisco. The two-day conference provides an chance for CISOs, CIOs ... Read more
April 25, 2017 Webroot Antivirus Update Problems Mount: Servers, PCs and Apps Crippled Webroot antivirus update problems are mounting with many thousands of the company’s customers experiencing severe issues after installing an April 24 update. Customers who had ... Read more
April 20, 2017 Employee Security Awareness is the Biggest Healthcare Data Security Threat Hackers continue to target healthcare organizations, malware is a constant threat, and ransomware continues to pose many problems, but when it comes to the biggest ... Read more
April 4, 2017 74% of Organizations Vulnerable to Insider Threats Spending on cybersecurity defenses has increased to reduce the risk of attacks by cybercriminals, yet organizations still feel vulnerable to insider threats. Furthermore, insider threats ... Read more
March 28, 2017 Ironscales Announces New Partnership with Check Point to Improve Detection and Remediation of Email Security Threats Ironscales has announced it has partnered with Check Point Software Technologies Ltd and will be integrating its innovative IronTraps™ anti-phishing solution with Check Points’ Sand ... Read more
March 10, 2017 Actively Exploited Apache Struts Vulnerability Discovered The discovery of a new Apache Struts vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild has prompted both Cisco Talos and Apache to issue ... Read more
March 8, 2017 Guidance on Cyber Threats Issued to Healthcare Organizations by OCR The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights has issued new guidance on cyber threats, advising HIPAA-covered entities to obtain the ... Read more
March 7, 2017 Powershell Remote Access Trojan Uses DNS for 2-Way Communications with C2 Server A new Powershell remote access Trojan has been identified by researchers at Cisco Talos. The memory-resident malware does not write any files to the hard ... Read more
February 23, 2017 Largest Healthcare W-2 Phishing Scam of 2017: 17,000 Employees Impacted The largest healthcare W-2 phishing scam of the year to date has recently been reported by American Senior Communities of Indiana. While many organizations have ... Read more
February 14, 2017 Windows Devices Used to Increase Size of Mirai Botnet The Mirai Botnet was used to launch devastating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks late last year, some of which took down large sections of ... Read more
February 14, 2017 Sophos Malware Report Predicts Rise in Ransomware and IoT Threats Ahead of the RSA Conference 2017, SophosLabs has released a new malware forecast that makes predictions about the changing threats over the coming months. SophosLabs ... Read more
February 13, 2017 MacOS Malware Spread by Malicious Word Macros Security researchers have discovered that MacOS malware is being spread by malicious Word macros. This is the first time that MacOS malware has been discovered ... Read more
February 10, 2017 HITRUST Threat Catalogue Helps Healthcare Industry Prioritize Cybersecurity Threats The HITRUST Alliance has announced that the organization will be releasing the HITRUST Threat Catalogue in March: A new resource to help healthcare organizations improve ... Read more
February 7, 2017 IRS Issues W2 Phishing Scam Warning Cybercriminals have been sending huge numbers of W2 phishing scam emails over the past few weeks. Tax season usually sees an increase in scam emails ... Read more