February 2, 2017 New Zero Day WordPress Vulnerability: Thousands of Websites at Risk A new zero day WordPress vulnerability has been discovered in the WordPress REST API that allows content injection and user privileges to be escalated. If ... Read more
January 31, 2017 Beazley Report Details Biggest Security Threats in 2016 Beazley, a provider of cybersecurity insurance for businesses, has released a new report detailing the biggest security threats in 2016. For the report, Beazley analyzed ... Read more
January 26, 2017 Sophos Launches Phish Threat Phishing Email Simulator Leading cybersecurity firm Sophos has announced the launch of a new phishing attack simulation platform. Sophos Phish Threat is billed as the easiest-to-use phishing attack ... Read more
January 20, 2017 Biomedical Research Labs Targeted with Ancient Mac Malware Security researchers have discovered a new Mac malware that is being used in targeted attacks on biomedical research organizations. However, while the malicious code is ... Read more
January 13, 2017 Disk-Wiping Malware Used to Wipe Virtual Desktops Disk-wiping malware has been around for many years; however, a new variant of an old malware variant has been discovered that is being use to ... Read more
January 11, 2017 IronScales Adds Automated Server-Side Remediation to its Anti-Phishing Solution IronScales has improved its IronTraps™ phishing mitigation technology allowing security teams to automatically mitigate phishing attacks. Previously, the IronTraps™ solution required manual mitigation of threats. ... Read more
January 4, 2017 Twitter Credit Card Phishing Scam Offers Quick Account Verification A new Twitter credit card phishing scam has been detected by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. Twitter users are offered verified account status via native Twitter ads; ... Read more
January 3, 2017 Switcher Trojan Infects Wi-Fi Routers via Android Mobiles An incredibly dangerous new Trojan has been detected by Kaspersky Lab which is being used to attack Wi-Fi routers via Android devices. The new malware ... Read more
December 22, 2016 Ticno Trojan Downloader Mimics Windows Dialog Box A new Trojan downloader has been identified by Russian antivirus firm Dr. Web, which installs malicious payloads – currently adware – using a popup Windows ... Read more
December 20, 2016 Over 400,000 New Phishing Webpages are Created Every Day Cybercriminals are now creating record numbers of phishing sites and are using those sites to steal login and email credentials and credit card information. The ... Read more
December 14, 2016 December 2016 Adobe Patch Fixes Actively Exploited Vulnerability An actively exploited vulnerability in Adobe Flash has now been patched. The December 2016 Adobe patch also fixes a further 16 Flash vulnerabilities rated as ... Read more
December 13, 2016 Netgear Router Vulnerability Prompts US-CERT Warning to Stop Using the Devices A Netgear router vulnerability that has remained unpatched for three months has now been publicly disclosed, placing users at risk of their devices being hacked. ... Read more
December 9, 2016 323,000 New Malware Samples Being Discovered Every Day According to the latest figures from Kaspersky Lab, there are now more than 323,000 new malware samples being released every day: An increase of 13,000 ... Read more
December 2, 2016 Holiday Season Malware Infections Double in 2016 Holiday season malware infections are to be expected. Each year as more shoppers head online, Windows malware infections increase. According to figures from Enigma Software ... Read more
November 18, 2016 Antivirus Software No Longer Sufficient to Protect Against Internet Threats According to Darren Bilby, a senior security researcher at Google, antivirus software is no longer good enough to protect against Internet threats. Antivirus software still ... Read more
November 9, 2016 Google Takes Action Against Websites that Repeatedly Serve Malware Google is to take action against websites that are repeatedly used to serve malware, unwanted software, or are used to phish for information. Once a ... Read more
November 1, 2016 Computer Virus Results in Cancellation of All Operations in Three UK Hospitals A National Health Service Trust in the United Kingdom has reported being attacked with a computer virus. The incident was so severe it has forced ... Read more
October 27, 2016 NetSkope Performs Analysis of CloudFanta Malware A new report published by NetSkope Threat Research Labs casts some light on CloudFanta malware, which is currently being spread via spearphishing campaigns. CloudFanta malware ... Read more
October 26, 2016 MediaPro Report Shows 88% of Employees Lack Understanding of Cyber Threats MediaPro has recently conducted a survey on 1,000 employees and members of the public to find out more about the general level of security awareness. ... Read more
October 24, 2016 Cloud Hosting Services Used to Host and Spread Malware Major cloud services including Amazon’s AWS and the Google cloud platform are being used to distribute malware, according to security researchers. Georgia Tech graduate student ... Read more
October 24, 2016 Phishing Scam Fools Baystate Health Employees and Exposes PHI Phishing is a technique commonly used by cybercriminals as an easy way of gaining access to healthcare data. The aim of the scam is to ... Read more
October 21, 2016 Dirty Cow Linux Kernel Security Flaw Being Actively Exploited The Dirty Cow Linux kernel security flaw (CVE-2016-5195) discovered by a security researcher at software vendor Red Hat is being actively exploited in the wild. ... Read more
October 12, 2016 Warning Issued About Hurricane Matthew Phishing Scams US-CERT has issued warning about a spate of Hurricane Matthew phishing scams as cybercriminals attempt to defraud users and infect computers by taking advantage of ... Read more
October 11, 2016 StrongPity Malware Masquerades as WinRAR and TrueCrypt Installers Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new malware named StrongPity which is being spread via bogus WinRAR and TrueCrypt installers. Infection with StrongPity malware ... Read more
October 5, 2016 IoT Botnet Warning Issued by SANS Institute The SANS institute has issued an IoT botnet warning and has urged security researchers to start monitoring the Internet for attempted IoT device attacks to ... Read more
October 4, 2016 DressCode Android Malware Capable of Stealing Data from Corporate Networks DressCode Android malware is now packaged into more than 3,000 apps, many of which are available through the Google Play store according to Trend Micro. ... Read more
September 28, 2016 Cisco Patches Critical Email Security Appliance Vulnerability A critical flaw that could be exploited to gain full control of a Cisco Email Security appliance has been patched. The flaw – CVE-2016-6406 – ... Read more
September 12, 2016 Critical MySQL Database Vulnerability Discovered A critical MySQL database vulnerability has been discovered which could allow hackers to gain full control of MySQL servers and MariaDB and Percona DB databases. ... Read more
September 7, 2016 Healthcare Industry Must do More to Deal with the Threat from Phishing The benefit of conducting simulated phishing attacks has been well documented, yet many healthcare organizations do not put anti-phishing training to the test. Consequently, knowledge ... Read more
September 7, 2016 Organizations Slow to Address Cisco EXTRABACON Vulnerability Researchers from security firm Rapid7 have been assessing the speed at which organizations have been addressing the EXTRABACON vulnerability, which was discovered to affect a ... Read more