Malware

24 Jan

How passkeys are changing authentication

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Passwords are a central aspect of security infrastructure and practice, but they are also a principal weakness involved in 81% of all hacking breaches. Inherent useability problems make passwords difficult for users to manage safely. These security and useability shortcomings have driven the search for alternative approaches known generally as passwordless authentication. Passkeys are a kind of passwordless authentication that is seeing increasing focus and adoption. They are set to become a key part of…

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24 Jan

Skyhawk launches platform to provide threat detection and response across multi-cloud environments

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Cloud threat detection vendor Skyhawk Security has released a platform designed to address alert fatigue that provides cloud detection and response (CDR) across multi-cloud environments, the company said Tuesday in a statement. The company says the Synthesis platform is being released on a “freemium” basis—the base version is available at no cost, but supplement features can be purchased. Skyhawk claims the platform improves upon products focused on identifying numerous static cloud security misconfigurations by employing…

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24 Jan

Australia fronts International Counter Ransomware Taskforce

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

The International Counter Ransomware Taskforce (ICRTF), envisioned by the International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI), kicked off its operations on Monday with Australia as its inaugural chair and coordinator. The CRI was first brought together in October 2021 with a virtual meeting of 30 countries, facilitated by the US White House National Security Council. In November 2022, a second meeting took place where the following was established by the 37 participating member: Hold ransomware actors accountable for…

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23 Jan

Nvidia targets insider attacks with digital fingerprinting technology

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Nvidia today announced that a digital lab playground for its latest security offering is now available, letting users try out an AI-powered system designed to monitor individual user accounts for potentially hazardous behavior. The idea, according to the company, is to leverage the large amounts of data that many organizations compile anyway about login and data access events on their systems, and use that to train an AI that watches for user accounts to diverge…

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23 Jan

Attackers exploiting critical flaw in many Zoho ManageEngine products

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Users of on-premises deployments of Zoho ManageEngine products should make sure they have patches applied for a critical remote code execution vulnerability that attackers have now started exploiting in the wild. Technical details about the flaw along with a proof-of-concept exploit was released late last week, which will allow more attackers to add this exploit to their arsenal. “The vulnerability is easy to exploit and a good candidate for attackers to ‘spray and pray’ across…

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23 Jan

Ad Fraud Campaign Targeted Over 11 Million Devices

Attacks, Malware

“It doesn’t stop with the stacked ads, though. For as many of those as might be rendering on a user’s device at once, they keep loading new ads until the ad slot with the malicious ad code is closed. The actors behind the VASTFLUX scheme clearly have an intimate understanding of the digital advertising ecosystem,” stated the company. In order to mislead both the advertising companies and the applications that display adverts, the campaign also…

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23 Jan

FanDuel Warns of Data Breach After Customer Info Stolen in Vendor Hack

Attacks, Malware

Individuals who have been compromised by this breach should change login information immediately. FanDuel allows for multi-factor authentication (MFA), which should be enabled on any active account. Phishing attacks are likely to occur after this type of information is stolen. FanDuel users that have been notified of a data breach should remain vigilant for future phishing attacks. Many account compromises are caused by using the same credentials across numerous sites. If one site is breached,…

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23 Jan

Canadian Energy Provider Qulliq Suffers Data Breach

Attacks, Malware

With investigations still pending, Qulliq customers should remain vigilant. Regularly checking bank and credit card statements that may have been used on the company’s site is advised. Changing the password to QEC accounts, as well as anywhere else that login combination was used, is suggested as well. It is good news that QEC had an incident response plan in place, as many companies still do not. The investigation results will provide more information to the…

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23 Jan

US Supreme Court leak investigation highlights weak and ineffective risk management strategy

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has announced that its investigation to find the insider who leaked a draft opinion of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. decision to media outlet Politico has come up empty. In a nutshell, the court’s insider risk management program, designed to protect the information the justices handle on a daily basis, failed—and failed miserably. Frankly, based on the findings of the report, the court’s insider risk…

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23 Jan

The metaverse brings a new breed of threats to challenge privacy and security gatekeepers

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

The metaverse is coming; businesses and government agencies are already building virtual worlds to support city services, meetings and conferences, community building, and commerce. They’re also rendering spatial apps around travel, car sales, manufacturing, and architecture in what Citi predicts will be a $13-trillion market with 5 billion users by 2030. “Just as the internet, e-commerce, social media, smartphones, and remote computing have in the past two decades changed the ways companies operate and reach…

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