Law enforcement agencies throughout Europe and the United States took a big swing at the notorious RagnaLocker ransomware group, arresting a malware developer, seizing parts of its infrastructure, and shutting down negotiations and leak sites on the Tor network. During the operation, which stretched over the last four days and multiple European countries, authorities also..

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Mote below k: Not only malvertising, but also “verified by Google.”

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U.S. law enforcement agencies over the past year seized 17 web domains and almost $1.5 million as part of an ongoing effort to shut down a North Korean program to plant IT workers from the country in organizations around the world to steal money and information. The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) this week announced the..

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If your personal information is stolen in a data breach, it can find its way to the dark web to be sold, traded and exploited.

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As threats increase, here are three ways to improve the effectiveness and success of your organization's threat-hunting program.

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The global financial services sector (FSI) is worth tens of trillions of dollars, or around a quarter of the world economy. Unsurprisingly, that also makes it a provider of some of Europe and America’s most critical national infrastructure. Given the services it offers, the data it holds and the access to customer funds it provides, it’s easy to understand why the industry has become a popular target for threat actors. In this context, cybersecurity is vitally important for FSI companies to better manage the business risks associated with serious security breaches.

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QR codes are quickly becoming a favorite tool of bad actors looking to launch phishing attacks, with one cybersecurity vendor saying the strategy appeared in 22% of phishing campaigns it detected in the first weeks of October. The numbers collected by Hoxhunt feed into the growing amount of data detailing the rise of such QR-based..

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Google is strengthening its Google Play Protect tool with new real-time scanning features that aim to deal with the growing challenge of malicious apps that use polymorphic malware to evade detection. The new capabilities enable Play Protect to scan in real time apps that have never been scanned before and will let the Android device..

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It’s worthwhile to familiarize yourself with open source alternatives to popular commercial cybersecurity offerings.

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