Phishing emails can have devastating consequences for companies when they fool recipients. These scam messages can include malicious links and attachments and, if users interact with them, they can disclose their confidential credentials or download malware inadvertently. Malicious payload can include spyware, keyloggers, ransomware and even computer viruses. […]
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To remain competitive and operate at their optimum, businesses must be agile while staying secure. […]
Experts have uncovered a threat operator infecting dedicated industrial control systems (ICS) to build a botnet using password crunching software designed for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). […]
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Ransomware has become an increasingly popular form of attack for threat operators in recent years. So much so that many cybercriminal gangs have switched out credential stealing, data theft and other forms of attack and transformed into ransomware operations for the lucrative rewards they can offer. […]
Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a recommended method for safeguarding secure information protected by passwords. MFA adds an extra layer of protection that can mitigate date leaks and breaches by, making it more difficult for an intruder to access areas requiring credentials to enter. […]
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The already high number of organisations paying out following ransomware attacks is increasing. This continuing spike has prompted the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to ask solicitors in Britain to remind the clients they serve that giving in to the demands of ransomware gangs will not keep their […]
A recent data leak at the leading comic book reading platform known as Mangatoon has now resulted in private information belonging to 23 million users being exposed. […]
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Email is a flexible and dependable communication solution that is easy to use, but it is often preyed upon by threat actors. Cybercriminals of all kinds are well aware that email accounts and the messages they retain, receive and send can be loaded with private information. As a result, infiltrating accounts and intercepting messages are […]
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It has been revealed that an NPM-based supply-chain attack that dates back to December last year employed multiple malevolent NPM modules that contained hidden JavaScript code to attack hundreds of downstream applications for desktop and enterprise websites. […]
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Recent reports form the BBC have detailed that social media accounts belonging the British Army were hijacked by threat operators and abused to promote cryptocurrency and non-fungible token (NFT) schemes to their followers on Twitter and YouTube. As part of the takeovers, videos were posted that featured the image of SpaceX founder, Elon Musk. Accounts […]
Credential theft is a common malicious activity of modern threat operators. Using tactics like social engineering, spoof attacks and phishing emails, operators create cunning ploys to part users from the passwords and usernames they use to access private information. […]
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Raccoon Stealer, a type of malware designed to illegally obtain passwords, has come back with a vengeance. The malware has returned on hacker forums within the dark web with a new and improved version. Dubbed Racoon Stealer 2.0, the malware now offers threat operators elevated operational capacity and upgraded credential-stealing capabilities. […]
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