A key goal of subterfuge is to throw investigators off the scent or to temporarily direct their attention elsewhere. Cybercriminal gangs also perform similar disappearing acts whenever it suits them.
Unit 42 researchers observed a 60% increase in the number of organizations that configure Google Cloud storage buckets so they are accessible to all users, putting their data at higher risk.
While Craft Ventures led the round, Felicis Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and NYCA also participated, which brings the company’s total raised to $85 million since its 2017 inception.
Some interaction-less calling vulnerabilities stemmed from developers who seemingly misunderstood WebRTC features or implemented them poorly, while other flaws came from specific design decisions.
Two senior U.S. senators planned legislation on Thursday that would fight ransomware attacks on U.S. infrastructure by sanctioning countries that harbor cybercriminals and strengthening protections.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based ReversingLabs has raised $56 million in a Series B funding round led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, with participation from ForgePoint Capital and Prelude.
At its core, DBREACH makes use of some of the same techniques as the CRIME (Compression Ratio Info-leak Made Easy) attack on Transport Layer Security (TLS) that was first disclosed in 2013.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas encouraged attendees at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference to collaborate with the agency on defining the future of cybersecurity policy.
Speaking at the Black Hat US 2021 hybrid event on August 5, Omer Tsarfati, security researcher at CyberArk, outlined a detailed attack chain by which he was able to bypass Windows Hello.
The Better Cybercrime Metrics Act would help improve how the government and law enforcement agencies collect data on cybercrime, with many crimes currently going unreported or untracked.