The trend of launching backdoor attacks is witnessing a rise as prominent APT groups such as Kimsuky, SharpPanda, Mustang Panda, and BackdoorDiplomacy, unleash several new and old backdoor malware.

The US is the world’s most powerful nation when measured on “cyber capabilities that make the greatest difference to national power,” according to The International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Although PowerISO has fixed this issue, they did not change the version number on the fixed release. Users should confirm that they are running PowerISO, version 7.9 with the most recent bug fixes.

The good news is that security teams are beefing up network defenses, but the bad news is that most companies have recently suffered a cybersecurity incident that required a board meeting.

Ever since two prominent Russian-speaking cybercrime forums banned ransomware-related topics, criminal operations have been forced to promote their service through alternative methods.

The leak of the Babuk Locker builder comes two months after the Babuk Locker ransomware gang announced that it was retiring after an attack on the Washington, DC police department in late April.

“This recent activity was mostly unsuccessful, and the majority of targets were not successfully compromised – we are aware of three compromised entities to date,” Microsoft threat intel experts said.

CISOs are looking for scalable, long-term strategies that could proactively protect their enterprise environment and prevent cybercriminals from exploiting vulnerabilities during crisis situations.

Scoring just 51.2 points out of 100 (14 points below the global average), India ranked 19 out of 21 countries in the National Privacy Test conducted recently by global VPN service provider NordVPN.

As per a new survey, 63% of respondents say it is important or very important to protect employee privacy in the workforce, but only 34% of organizations are effective or very effective in doing so.