A cyber attack hit Iranian government sites and nuclear facilities
A cyber attack hit Iranian government sites and nuclear facilities Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2024 As Middle East tensions rise, cyberattacks hit Iran’s government branches…
Month: October 2024
Human Risk Is Today’s Biggest Cybersecurity Gap
Cybercrime is expected to grow from $8 trillion globally in 2023 to $10.5 trillion by 2025, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. A 2024 report from Mimecast warns that human…
NextGen Identity Management – Cyber Defense Magazine
Federal agencies face a pivotal cybersecurity challenge: prevent unauthorized entities from accessing systems and facilities, while granting authorized federal employees and contractors access commensurate with…
Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech
As digital scamming explodes in Southeast Asia, including so called “pig butchering” investment scams, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) issued a…
The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters
The Internet Archive is under attack. On top of multiple extinction-threatening lawsuits against the organization that created and maintains the Wayback Machine, hackers this week…
A Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines
The newly discovered toolkit is composed of many different building blocks, written in multiple languages and capabilities. The overall goal appears to be increased flexibility…
Ransomware operators exploited Veeam Backup & Replication flaw CVE-2024-40711 in recent attacks
Ransomware operators exploited Veeam Backup & Replication flaw CVE-2024-40711 in recent attacks Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2024 Sophos reports ransomware operators are exploiting a critical…
FBI Creates Fake Cryptocurrency to Expose Widespread Crypto Market Manipulation
Oct 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cybercrime The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced arrests and charges against several individuals and entities in connection with…
GitLab fixed a critical flaw that could allow arbitrary CI/CD pipeline execution
GitLab fixed a critical flaw that could allow arbitrary CI/CD pipeline execution Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2024 GitLab issued updates for CE and EE to…
Modern TVs have “unprecedented capabilities for surveillance and manipulation,” group reveals
Your television is debuting the latest, most captivating program: You. In a report titled “How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era,” the…
GitHub, Telegram Bots, and QR Codes Abused in New Wave of Phishing Attacks
A new tax-themed malware campaign targeting insurance and finance sectors has been observed leveraging GitHub links in phishing email messages as a way to bypass…
Robust cloud IAM should align to zero-trust principles
In today’s digital landscape, the traditional security perimeter has dissolved, making identity the new frontline of defence. As organisations increasingly adopt cloud services and remote…