Yearly Archives: 2024
Growth in phishing, changes in ransomware crews mark threat landscape
Phishing attacks continue to dominate the security landscape, though other avenues for cybercrime are seeing growth in popularity, acco...
Get ready for the high-risk Xmas holiday shopping season
COMMENTARY: The holiday shopping season features a lot of chaos: rushed decisions, urgent sales, and last-minute gift hunting. While sh...
Australia regulator dishes out midband spectrum for private networks
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The newly allocated area-wide licences (AWLs) will allow organisations to build their own private wireless networks
This week, the...
Phishing attacks via ‘URL rewriting’ to evade detection escalate
Email attackers are increasingly exploiting “URL rewriting” in phishing attacks to evade detection while spreading malicious links, Per...
2nd Edition: How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk – Doug Hubbard – BSW Vault
Mr. Hubbard is the inventor of the powerful Applied Information Economics (AIE) method. His management consulting career started 35 yea...
Avast anti-rootkit driver used to seize control of infected systems
A malicious campaign was recently observed that uses a legitimate, but outdated, Avast anti-rootkit driver and then manipulates it to t...
Social engineering becomes lucrative business for North Korean hackers
Deployment of credential and cryptocurrency stealing malware has been conducted by Sapphire Sleet not only through the impersonation of...
Asia, Europe subjected to Russian cyberespionage campaign
TAG-110 leveraged vulnerable internet-exposed web apps and phishing emails to facilitate the delivery of the HATVIBE app loader that tr...
Ransomware and exploits surge: Urgent cyber threat insights and critical moves for 2025
Cybersecurity leaders face a high-stakes environment where the speed and sophistication of threats continue to rise, demanding more pro...
Neighboring Wi-Fi networks exploited in APT28 attack
Newly discovered nearest neighbor targeting, or the compromise of neighboring Wi-Fi networks, had been leveraged by Russian state-backe...