Lessons from history and recent attacks on critical infrastructure throw into sharp relief the need to better safeguard our essential systems and services Just days ago, Ukraine’s power grid came under attack as the Sandworm group attempted to deploy a piece of malware called Industroyer2 against the operations of an energy supplier in the country.
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A new set of phishing attacks delivering the more_eggs malware has been observed striking corporate hiring managers with bogus resumes as an infection vector, a year after potential candidates looking for work on LinkedIn were lured with weaponized job offers. “This year the more_eggs operation has flipped the social engineering script, targeting hiring managers with
by Paul Ducklin Back when the Bitcoin protocol was invented, the idea was to build a simple global payment system that wasn’t (and couldn’t be) controlled by any central broker. In other words, you wouldn’t need to apply to a private company for a credit card, or to get permission from a regulator to send
UK government employees are targeted with billions of malicious emails every year and may have clicked on tens of thousands of suspicious links, according to Comparitech. The tech comparison firm received answers from 260 government organizations to which it submitted freedom of information (FOI) requests. From these, it then calculated that 764,331 government employees ‘received’
Young people are not passive victims of technology or helpless addicts. They are technology creators and agents with diverse backgrounds and interests. When people hear that I study digital youth culture, I often get asked, “Is technology good or bad for kids?” My first struggle is to reframe the question. The question assumes technology is
Cryptocurrency is all the rage these days and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. As more people dive into the nitty-gritty of what blockchain is, how NFTs are traded, and the difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum, digital currency developers are finding new ways for people to engage with crypto. But as
Google Project Zero called 2021 a “record year for in-the-wild 0-days,” as 58 security vulnerabilities were detected and disclosed during the course of the year. The development marks more than a two-fold jump from the previous maximum when 28 0-day exploits were tracked in 2015. In contrast, only 25 0-day exploits were detected in 2020.
LinkedIn has become by far the most impersonated brand for phishing attacks, according to new research by Check Point Research (CPR). The cybersecurity vendor’s 2022 Q1 Brand Phishing Report revealed that phishing attacks impersonating the professional social networking site made up over half (52%) of all attempts globally in the first quarter of 2022. This represents a 44% increase
Three high-impact Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) security vulnerabilities have been discovered impacting various Lenovo consumer laptop models, enabling malicious actors to deploy and execute firmware implants on the affected devices. Tracked as CVE-2021-3970, CVE-2021-3971, and CVE-2021-3972, the latter two “affect firmware drivers originally meant to be used only during the manufacturing process of Lenovo
German wind turbine manufacturer, Nordex Group, was hit by a cyber-attack on 31 March 2022, with an update issued by the firm this week. The cyber-attack was detected by IT security team at an early stage, according to Nordex, and response measures were taken quickly. Nordex revealed that the necessary response protocols were taken and IT
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