The global online gaming community is facing a rising threat from cyber-criminals exploiting vulnerabilities inherent in gamers’ interactions with digital content. A recent report by Sekoia.io has shed light on a targeted campaign using Discord messages and fake download websites to distribute information-stealing malware within the gaming sphere. According to the post, gamers, in their quest for
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Secure Coding Through engaging hacking challenges and competitions, CTFs offer an excellent opportunity to test and enhance your security and problem-solving skills Christian Ali Bravo 13 Nov 2023 • , 3 min. read Cybersecurity is not only an ever-evolving and increasingly important concern in our digital age, but it can also be a lot of
Nov 14, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given a November 17, 2023, deadline for federal agencies and organizations to apply mitigations to secure against a number of security flaws in Juniper Junos OS that came to light in August. The agency on Monday added five vulnerabilities to
Two giants of the banking and legal sectors have been breached by suspected ransomware actors, according to reports. Allen & Overy is one of the UK’s “Magic Circle” law firms. It released a statement yesterday revealing a “data incident” impacting a “small number of storage servers.” Although the firm did not name ransomware as the
Business Security By collecting, analyzing and contextualizing information about possible cyberthreats, including the most advanced ones, threat intelligence offers a critical method to identify, assess and mitigate cyber risk Phil Muncaster 10 Nov 2023 • , 4 min. read When it comes to mitigating an organization’s cyber risk, knowledge and expertise are power. That alone
Nov 13, 2023NewsroomNational Security / Cyber Attack Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is malicious cyber activity orchestrated by two prominent Chinese nation-state hacking groups targeting 24 Cambodian government organizations. “This activity is believed to be part of a long-term espionage campaign,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers said in a report last week.
Microsoft has revealed a new threat campaign exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the popular SysAid IT helpdesk software. Posting to X (formerly Twitter) yesterday, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence account said the group is the same one responsible for the MOVEit data theft and extortion campaign – a threat actor known as Lace Tempest (aka DEV-0950,
The Urdu version of the Hunza News website offers readers the option to download an Android app – little do they know that the app is actually spyware 10 Nov 2023 This week, ESET researchers have described the ins and outs of a so-called watering-hole attack against a news website that delivers news about Gilgit-Baltistan,
Nov 11, 2023NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cybercrime A sub-cluster within the infamous Lazarus Group has established new infrastructure that impersonates skills assessment portals as part of its social engineering campaigns. Microsoft attributed the activity to a threat actor it calls Sapphire Sleet, describing it as a “shift in the persistent actor’s tactics.” Sapphire Sleet, also called
Most British lawmakers are unaware or misinformed about how and where facial recognition technology (FRT) is being used, and the privacy threats it poses, according to a new Privacy International study. The rights group commissioned YouGov to poll 114 UK MPs about the technology, which uses AI to extract biometric data from facial images captured
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