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A new form of the infamous Trickbot malware is using never-before-seen behaviour in attacks targeting telecommunications providers, universities and financial services in a campaign which looks to be going after intellectual property and financial data. The campaign, which has been active since at least January, has been discovered and detailed by researchers at cybersecurity company […] More
In the midst of a global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, hackers are not letting a disaster go to waste and have now automated their coronavirus-related scams to industrial levels. According to multiple reports, cybercriminals are now creating and putting out thousands of coronavirus-related websites on a daily basis. Most of these sites are being used to […] More
With most employees working from home amid today’s COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, enterprise VPN servers have now become paramount to a company’s backbone, and their security and availability must be the focus going forward for IT teams. “It will be very important [that] the VPN service is patched and up-to-date because there will be way more […] More
Adobe has released an important security update for its popular PDF products, Adobe Acrobat and Reader. The company has released an update for the PDF software for Windows and macOS machines. The update addresses nine critical flaws and four vulnerabilities rated as important. Windows 10 The critical flaws include an out-of-bounds write, a stack-based overflow […] More
NutriBullet has become the latest in a string of Magecart victims with skimmer code implanted on the firm’s domain in order to steal customer financial data. Research made public on Wednesday by RiskIQ said the intrusions were the work of Magecart Group 8, a collective under the Magecart umbrella. Magecart is a general term now […] More
Image: Google Google has expanded today the protections it offers to Android users enrolled in the company’s Advanced Protection Program (APP). The APP is a special Google program the company launched a few years back for high-risk individuals who face more security risks than the average user. These high-risk individuals can enroll in the Google […] More
VMware has resolved two vulnerabilities that could lead to privilege escalation or denial-of-service conditions in a variety of software. On Tuesday, the virtualization software provider published a security advisory describing CVE-2020-3950 and CVE-2020-3951, a pair of bugs deemed important and low in severity, respectively. See also: VMware exceeds $10B in sales in FY 2020 The first […] More
The increasingly destructive capabilities of ransomware attacks could provide nation-state hacking operations with a means of attacking infrastructure – and the ability to plausibly deny any sort of involvement in campaigns. For cyber criminals, ransomware is all about making money and, in order to achieve that goal, they aim to gain access to as many […] More
