Money-making scripts attack organizations

Cybercriminals attack government, law enforcement, non-profit organizations, agricultural and commercial companies by slipping a cryptominer, keylogger, and backdoor into their systems.

Google ads for KeePass, Notepad++ lead to malware

Users using Google to search for and download the KeePass password manager and the Notepad++ text editor may have inadvertently gotten saddled with malware, says Jérôme Segura, Director of Threat Intelligence at Malwarebytes. Malvertising via search en…

Hackers Using Secure USB Drives to Attack Government Entities

An ongoing attack on government agencies in the APAC region has been claimed to have compromised a secure USB device with hardware encryption. The nation’s government agencies utilize these safe USB devices to transfer and save data between computer systems. The attacks had a very small number of victims and were highly targeted. The attacks […]

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Cyber resilience starts in the C-suite

In many cases, senior executives/line-of-business leaders are minimally engaged in their company’s cyber preparedness initiatives — only 33% of CEOs or managing directors and 21% of other senior leaders are heavily involved, according to Commvaul…

Jupyter Notebooks targeted by cryptojackers

Cryptojackers are targeting exposed Jupyter Notebooks to install cryptominers and steal credential files for popular cloud services, researchers have uncovered. What are Jupyter Notebooks? “Jupyter is a service that allows you to host individual …

Generative AI merges with intelligent malware, threat level rises

There has been a 44% increase in organized ID fraud in North America compared to preceding quarters, according to AU10TIX. This upsurge is believed to be driven by the ongoing economic recovery and inflationary pressures, particularly in the US market,…