Jamie Hart, a cyber threat intelligence analyst at Digital Shadows, said that the trend of targeting individual and business tax filings for ransomware attacks has been on the rise.
Hacktivists have reportedly downed the website of Uganda Police in the wake of protests triggered by the arrest of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known by his pop star alias, Bobi Wine.
Ransomware, already a major enterprise threat, is growing more problematic as operators brainstorm new ways to make their attacks easier to launch and more devastating for victims.
There were a total of 30.7 million files, including agent names, emails, password keys, security tokens, owner/client data, and other internal records, exposed to anyone with an internet connection.
VMware has released temporary workarounds to address a critical vulnerability in its products that could be exploited by an attacker to take control of an affected system.
vpnMentor’s research team has discovered a possible credential stuffing operation whose origins are unknown, but that affected some online users who also have Spotify accounts.
As 2020 nears its end, CISOs and infosec teams are expected to prepare board and C-suite briefings on the state of their organization’s cybersecurity posture, including a comprehensive 2021 budget.
CyberArk announced it is working with Forescout and Phosphorus to enable organizations to secure the increasing number of IoT devices and technologies resulting from digital business transformation.
A GBG study revealed that a third of consumers have become more concerned about fraud due to COVID-19 and 33% of the public believe their personal information is currently for sale on the dark web.
A recent review by the NCC Group and Which? of nearly a dozen inexpensive video doorbells sold via online markets such as Amazon and eBay uncovered multiple security vulnerabilities in each device.