A phishing campaign dubbed 'Phish n' Ships' has been underway since at least 2019, infecting over a thousand legitimate online stores to promote fake product listings for hard-to-find items. [...]
A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cynet in October 2024 found that Cynet's All-in-One Cybersecurity Platform generated $2.73 million in savings, paying for itself in under six months, for a return on investment of 426%. [...]
The popular LottieFiles Lotti-Player project was compromised in a supply chain attack to inject a crypto drainer into websites that steals visitors' cryptocurrency. [...]
Interbank, one of Peru's leading financial institutions, has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor who hacked into its systems leaked stolen data online. [...]
Researchers have found new versions of a sophisticated Android financial-fraud Trojan that’s notable for its ability to intercept calls a victim tries to place to customer-support personnel of their banks. FakeCall first came to public attention in 2022, when researchers from security firm Kaspersky reported that the malicious …
There’s little doubt that some of the most important pillars of modern cryptography will tumble spectacularly once quantum computing, now in its infancy, matures sufficiently. Some experts say that could be in the next couple decades. Others say it could take longer. No one knows. The uncertainty leaves …
Google researchers said they uncovered a Kremlin-backed operation targeting recruits for the Ukrainian military with information-stealing malware for Windows and Android devices. The malware, spread primarily through posts on Telegram, came from a persona on that platform known as "Civil Defense." Posts on the @civildefense_com_ua telegram channel and the …
If you are new to AWS WAF and are interested in learning how to mitigate bot traffic by implementing Challenge actions in your AWS WAF custom rules, here is a basic, cost-effective way of using this action to help you reduce the impact of bot traffic in your applications …
You likely have never heard of Babel Street or Location X, but chances are good that they know a lot about you and anyone else you know who keeps a phone nearby around the clock. Reston, Virginia-located Babel Street is the little-known firm behind Location X, a service with …
Fortinet, a maker of network security software, has kept a critical vulnerability under wraps for more than a week amid reports that attackers are using it to execute malicious code on servers used by sensitive customer organizations. Fortinet representatives didn’t respond to emailed questions and have yet to …
October 28, 2024: We updated the text and figure for security objective 1 to show Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints—powered by AWS PrivateLink—enable customers to establish private connectivity to supported AWS services, enterprise services, and third-party services by using …
Welcome to the second post in our series on Security Guardians, a mechanism to distribute security ownership at Amazon Web Services (AWS) that trains, develops, and empowers builder teams to make security decisions about the software that they create. In the previous post, you learned the importance of building …
Microsoft is using deceptive tactics against phishing actors by spawning realistic-looking honeypot tenants with access to Azure and lure cybercriminals in to collect intelligence about them. [...]
It's true: Google Scholar profile of the renowned former physicist and polymath, Sir Isaac Newton bears a "verified email" note. According to Google Scholar, Isaac Newton is a "Professor of Physics, MIT" with a "Verified email at mit.edu." [...]
Cisco confirmed today that it took its public DevHub portal offline after a threat actor leaked "non-public" data, but it continues to state that there is no evidence that its systems were breached. [...]
Hackers breached ESET's exclusive partner in Israel to send phishing emails to Israeli businesses that pushed data wipers disguised as antivirus software for destructive attacks. [...]
Nidec Corporation is informing that hackers behind a ransomware attack is suffered earlier this year stole data and leaked it on the dark web. [...]
The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD's older Zen 1, Zen 1+, and Zen 2 microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing 'Spectre' mitigations. [...]
In 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched the K-12 Cybersecurity Pilot Program, a groundbreaking initiative backed by $200 million in funding. Learn more from Cynet about how schools and libraries can apply to this program. [...]
Microsoft is warning enterprise customers that, for almost a month, a bug caused critical logs to be partially lost, putting at risk companies that rely on this data to detect unauthorized activity. [...]
A new ClickFix campaign is luring users to fraudulent Google Meet conference pages showing fake connectivity errors that deliver info-stealing malware for Windows and macOS operating systems. [...]
An Alabama man was arrested today by the FBI for his suspected role in hacking the SEC's X account to make a fake announcement that Bitcoin ETFs were approved. [...]
North Korean IT professionals who trick Western companies into hiring them are stealing data from the organization's network and asking for a ransom to not leak it. [...]
The BianLian ransomware group has claimed the cyberattack on Boston Children's Health Physicians (BCHP) and threatens to leak stolen files unless a ransom is paid. [...]
Insurance giant Globe Life says an unknown threat actor attempted to extort money in exchange for not publishing data stolen from the company's systems earlier this year. [...]