DeepSeek’s popularity exploited by malware peddlers, scammers
As US-based AI companies struggle with the news that the recently released Chinese-made open source DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model performs as well as theirs for a…
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Absolute Resilience Platform updates improve resilience across endpoints
Absolute Security announced that the Absolute Resilience Platform has expanded to provide customers with integrated, resilient, and automated patch management, vulnerability scanning and remediation, workflow…
AuthID PrivacyKey protects users’ biometric identities
authID released PrivacyKey, a solution for protecting user biometric data while also avoiding all the compliance issues and risks related to biometric information storage. With…
How Lazarus Group built a cyber espionage empire
Since September 2024, SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team has been investigating Lazarus Group’s activity, uncovering key details about their infrastructure. Despite variations in payload delivery and obfuscation…
Preparing financial institutions for the next generation of cyber threats
In this Help Net Security interview, James Mirfin, SVP and Head of Risk and Identity Solutions at Visa, discusses key priorities for leaders combating fraud,…
Cybersecurity crisis in numbers – Help Net Security
The number of US data compromises in 2024 (3,158) decreased 1% compared to 2023 (3,202), 44 events away from tying a record for the number…
Only 13% of organizations fully recover data after a ransomware attack
Ransomware attacks are disrupting and undermining business operations and draining revenue streams, according to Illumio. Findings from the study reveal that 58% of organizations had…
BackBox releases Network Cyber Resilience Platform
BackBox launched Network Cyber Resilience Platform. With business productivity at risk due to the complexity of managing too many tools, monotonous manual tasks, and limited…
ForensicScope Regula 4125 detects counterfeit documents
Regula has launched the portable and autonomous ForensicScope Regula 4125. The new device enables ID verification in any place and environment: at border and inland…
Europeans targeted with new Tor-using backdoor and infostealers
A financially motivated threat actor has been targeting German and Polish-speaking users with info-stealing malware and TorNet, a previously undocumented .NET backdoor that leverages the…
Hiya AI Phone blocks spam and irrelevant calls
Hiya has introduced Hiya AI Phone, an AI call assistant mobile app. Designed for busy professionals, Hiya AI Phone acts like a personal assistant, saving…
Compliance Scorecard Version 7 simplifies compliance management for MSPs
Compliance Scorecard released Compliance Scorecard Version 7. This latest release is designed to seamlessly integrate compliance into cybersecurity offerings, delivering new features that simplify and…