Dec 28, 2022Ravie LakshmananMalware / Windows Security Microsoft’s decision to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default for Office files downloaded from the…
Dec 15, 2022Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Endpoint Security Phishing campaigns involving the Qakbot malware are using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images embedded in HTML email…
Dec 15, 2022Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / DDoS-for-Hire The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of 48 domains that offered services to…
Dec 15, 2022Ravie Lakshmanan NuGet, PyPi, and npm ecosystems are the target of a new campaign that has resulted in over 144,000 packages being published…
Web applications, often in the form of Software as a Service (SaaS), are now the cornerstone for businesses all over the world. SaaS solutions have…
A previously undocumented Android malware campaign has been observed leveraging money-lending apps to blackmail victims into paying up with personal information stolen from their devices.…
Dec 15, 2022Ravie LakshmananWindows Security / Network Security Microsoft has revised the severity of a security vulnerability it originally patched in September 2022, upgrading it…
Dec 15, 2022Ravie LakshmananAdvanced Persistent Threat A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor codenamed MirrorFace has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting Japanese political…
Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananBackup & Recovery / Zero-Day The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two vulnerabilities impacting Veeam Backup & Replication…
Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Botnet Microsoft on Thursday flagged a cross-platform botnet that’s primarily designed to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private…
Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Data Security The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the Department of Commerce, announced Thursday…
Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananSecure Coding / Code Hosting GitHub on Thursday said it is making available its secret scanning service to all public repositories on…
