Chinese hackers breached Dutch Ministry of Defense
07
Feb
2024

Chinese hackers breached Dutch Ministry of Defense

Chinese state-sponsored hackers have breached the Dutch Ministry of Defense (MOD) last year and deployed a new remote access trojan…

Linux Bootloader Vulnerability
07
Feb
2024

Critical Bootloader Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All Linux Distros

Feb 07, 2024NewsroomDevice Security / Vulnerability The maintainers of shim have released version 15.8 to address six security flaws, including…

How Iranian cyber ops pivoted to target Israel after 7 October attacks
07
Feb
2024

How Iranian cyber ops pivoted to target Israel after 7 October attacks

Four months to the day after a Hamas incursion across the Israeli border in Gaza sparked a war that has…

Fortinet fixes critical FortiNAC remote command execution flaw
07
Feb
2024

Critical FortiSIEM CVEs are duplicates, issued in error

NVD published two advisories this week for critical command injection vulnerabilities purportedly impacting Fortinet’s FortiSIEM products, but there’s more to what meets…

Ransomware Payments Hit a Record $1.1 Billion in 2023
07
Feb
2024

Ransomware Payments Hit a Record $1.1 Billion in 2023

A year ago, there seemed to be a glimmer of hope in the cybersecurity industry’s long-running war of attrition against…

The fight against commercial spyware misuse is heating up
07
Feb
2024

The fight against commercial spyware misuse is heating up

Though there are organizations out there investigating how commercial spyware is misused to target journalists, human rights defenders and dissidents,…

Biden administration bans investment in Chinese high tech
07
Feb
2024

Government funds two semiconductor centres

The government has said it is funding two semiconductor “information and knowledge centres” in a bid to deliver chip innovation…

Facebook login screen
07
Feb
2024

Facebook fatal accident scam still rages on

Recently I wrote about a malvertising campaign on Facebook that has been going on for almost a year. Apparently Facebook…

Commercial Spyware Abuse
07
Feb
2024

Global Coalition and Tech Giants Unite Against Commercial Spyware Abuse

A coalition of dozens of countries, including France, the U.K., and the U.S., along with tech companies such as Google,…

AI ID specialist Onfido in talks to be bought by Entrust
07
Feb
2024

AI ID specialist Onfido in talks to be bought by Entrust

London-based identity verification unicorn Onfido is likely to be bought by Entrust, a US-based payments, identity and data security specialist,…

Snatch Ransomware Group Claims The FDVA Cyber Attack
07
Feb
2024

CyberOT Secure Summit 2024: Safeguarding Digital Security

Join us on the 28th and 29th of February 2024 at the vibrant Innovation Hub, RIT University, Dubai Silicon Oasis…

Two New FortiSIEM Max-severity Flaw Execute Remote Code
07
Feb
2024

Two New FortiSIEM Max-severity Flaw Execute Remote Code

FortiSIEM has been discovered with multiple OS command injection vulnerabilities, which could allow an unauthenticated remote threat actor to execute…