Daily Archives: 24/10/2024
White House endorses collaboration with cybersecurity researchers
The White House has put on its white hat and tossed its weight behind the cybersecurity research community.In a notice from the Biden a...
Embargo ransomware analysis exposes developing toolkit of new group
The Embargo ransomware group is a new and immature suspected ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) gang that uses a custom Rust-based toolkit,...
Third-party vendors drive 45% of breaches in US energy sector
A joint study by SecurityScorecard and KPMG found that 90% of companies in the energy sector that sustained multiple breaches had secur...
Audit + Beyond 2024: AI and the Future of Compliance — Three minutes with Anton Dam, AuditBoard’s AI champ
LAS VEGAS — The world of audit and compliance has become a labyrinth, with new regulations cropping up faster than companies can build ...
Community Fibre raises £125m in latest funding round
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The funding will be used to help encourage take-up of the company’s fibre services
UK altnet Community Fibre has raised £125 mil...
Increased stealth integrated into novel Grandoreiro banking trojan variants
More advanced anti-detection mechanisms — including ciphertext stealing encryption, domain generation algorithm usage for command-and-c...
Fraudulent DeFi game leveraged in new crypto investor-targeted Lazarus attack
North Korean hacking collective Lazarus Group has sought to exfiltrate cryptocurrency investors' assets in attacks involving a phony de...
New Fortinet FortiManager bug subjected to months-long exploitation
BleepingComputer reports that more than 50 Fortinet FortiManager appliances have already been compromised by the threat actor UNC5820 i...
Attacks exploiting Microsoft SharePoint, Samsung processor bugs underway
Threat actors have been actively exploiting a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint deserialization flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-38094, and a...
Rhysida demands $1.3M ransom from disability nonprofit Easterseals
U.S. disability services nonprofit Easterseals has been demanded to pay a $1.3 million ransom by the Rhysida ransomware operation, whic...