Montclair Cyber Attack Kicks Up The Ransom Payment Dilemma
In the latest development in the Montclair cyber attack, the US township has decided to pay $450,000 as ransom. Joseph Hartnett, the interim township manager,…
Month: August 2023
Superloop in non-binding $243m bid for Symbio – Telco/ISP
Superloop has made a non-binding $243 million play for Symbio, an ASX-listed UCaaS and collaboration services provider that is also one of its largest wholesale…
Women two-thirds more likely to fear losing CNI security jobs than men
UK critical national infrastructure (CNI) organisations are facing a dearth of diverse cyber security talent, with a disproportionate amount of women afraid their jobs may…
Iranian Hackers Posed as Israelis in Targeted LinkedIn Phishing Attack
IN SUMMARY The phishing attack targeted Israeli researchers and civil servants. The scammers engaged in conversations to send malware files. The campaign has been thwarted…
Ranged bounties: a flexible and granular bounty mechanism
At Intigriti, we are continually enhancing our platform to better serve our community. Today, we’re introducing a significant update: ranged bounties. This addition provides program…
Hacker Conversations: Youssef Sammouda, Bug Bounty Hunter
Youssef Sammouda is a Tunisian security researcher who focuses on bug bounty programs. He describes himself as, “Vulnerability researcher with an attraction to web applications…
A New Attack Impacts ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It
“Making models more resistant to prompt injection and other adversarial ‘jailbreaking’ measures is an area of active research,” says Michael Sellitto, interim head of policy…
Android n-day bugs pose zero-day threat
In the Android ecosystem, n-day vulnerabilities are almost as dangerous as zero-days, according to Google’s review of zero-days exploited in the wild in 2022. N-days…
European Bank Customers Targeted in SpyNote Android Trojan Campaign
Aug 01, 2023THNMobile Security / Malware Various European customers of different banks are being targeted by an Android banking trojan called SpyNote as part of…
WikiLoader malware-as-a-service targets Italian organizationsSecurity Affairs
Threat actors are targeting Italian organizations with a phishing campaign aimed at delivering a new malware called WikiLoader. WikiLoader is a new piece of malware…
How AI May Be Used to Create Custom Disinformation Ahead of 2024
“If I want to launch a disinformation campaign, I can fail 99 percent of the time. You fail all the time, but it doesn’t matter,”…
US government outlines National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy
After the release of a National Cybersecurity Strategy and its implementation plan, the Biden-Harris Administration has unveiled the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES),…