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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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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As violence and protests spread in the chaotic war between Israel and Hamas, evidence of the parallel battle going on in cyberspace continue to emerge. It started almost immediately after the initial bloody incursion by Hamas fighters into southern Israel October 7, with cybersecurity experts detecting multiple threat groups launching cyberattacks, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)..

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The majority of cybersecurity pros are experiencing some level of burnout, with more than half reporting they are likely to switch jobs next year.

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Almost half of of Forbes Global 2000 companies do not have control over their branded artificial intelligence (.AI) domain names.

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Last year, I published a 5-part series about Switzerland’s e-voting system. Like any internet voting system, it has inherent security vulnerabilities: if there are malicious insiders, they can corrupt the vote count; and if thousands of voters’ computers are hacked by malware, the malware can change votes as they are transmitted. Switzerland “solves” the problem of malicious insiders in their printing office by officially declaring that they won’t consider that threat model in their cybersecurity assessment...

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A hacker group that continues to extend its reach from financially motivated attacks into cyber-espionage this summer targeted attendees of a gender equality conference with a pared-down version of the RomCom remote access trojan (RAT). Void Rabisu – also known as Tropical Scorpius, Storm-0978, and UNC2596 – in August leveraged the fourth version of the..

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Progress Software is now adding an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to its growing list of legal and financial headaches stemming from the massive hack of its MOVEit file transfer tool that has affected more than 2,500 organizations over the past five months. In a regulatory filing with the SEC this week,..

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