HardBit ransomware tailors ransom to fit your cyber insurance payout
We take a look at a ransomware infection which uses a novel approach to payments: asking for the victim’s insurance details. Ransomware authors are wading…
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The 5 most dangerous cyberthreats facing businesses this year
Which of the myriad, extant cyberthreats should your business be paying the most attention to in 2023? Which of the myriad, extant cyberthreats should your…
GoDaddy says it’s a victim of multi-year cyberattack campaign
Hosting and domain name company GoDaddy says it believes a “sophisticated threat actor group” has been subjecting the company to a multi-year attack campaign. Hosting…
Twitter and 2 factor authentication: what’s changing?
Twitter is making radical changes to how two factor authentication works on the site. What’s happening, and when do these changes go live? Twitter is…
How to set up two-factor authentication on Twitter using an app
We explain how to secure your Twitter account with app-based two-factor authentication. If you use text based authentication as an additional level of security for…
How to set up two-factor authentication on Twitter using a hardware key
We explain how to to enable hardware key authentication on Twitter. If you use text based authentication as an additional level of security for your…
Multilingual skimmer fingerprints ‘secret shoppers’ via Cloudflare endpoint API
Magecart threat actors continue to go after e-commerce sites while also collecting data points from fake customers. One important aspect of data theft in criminal…
GoAnywhere zero-day opened door to Clop ransomware
The Clop ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks that exploited a zero-day in GoAnywhere MFT admin consoles. A semi-active ransomware group…
Chip company loses $250m after ransomware hits supply chain
Applied Materials has said it expects to miss $250 million in second-quarter sales due to a ransomware attack at a supplier. Applied Materials, one of…
TikTok car theft challenge: Hyundai, Kia fix flaw
Hyundai and Kia have released a software update to fix a car theft hack that went viral on TikTok, and resulted in at least eight…
Mortal Kombat ransomware forms tag team with crypto-stealing malware
It’s like a choose your own adventure game gone horribly wrong. An “unidentified actor” is making use of these two malicious files to cause combo-laden…
Two Supreme Court cases could change the Internet as we know it
The Supreme Court’s reconsideration of Section 230, a law that’s been the foundation for the way in which we have used the Internet for decades,…