Data Security
EU Authorities Deal Blow to RagnarLocker Ransomware Operations
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 ...
KeePass Malicious Ads: Google Goof Permits Punycode Attacks Again
Mote below k: Not only malvertising, but also “verified by Google.” ...
U.S. Seizes Money, Domains Involved In North Korea IT Worker Scam
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 ...
How Digital Forensics Can Investigate the Dark Web
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 ...
How to Make Your Threat-Hunting Program More Effective
As threats increase, here are three ways to improve the effectiveness and success of your organization's threat-hunting program ...
A Springboard to Success: How Data-Centric Security Can Transform Financial Services
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 ...
Use of QR Codes in Phishing Campaigns is on the Rise
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 ...
Google Enhances Play Protect to Defend Against Polymorphic Malware
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 ...
Open Source DAST, Browser Security and EDR: Security Tools Anyone Can Afford
It’s worthwhile to familiarize yourself with open source alternatives to popular commercial cybersecurity offerings ...
Database Ransomware: From Attack to Recovery
Introduction In recent years, ransomware attacks have risen sharply, due to their profitability, ease of access with ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) tools, and an increasing attack surface. Ransomware is a type of attack in ...
