Sea snake attacks may be misdirected courtship behaviours
Attacks by venomous Olive sea snakes on scuba divers may be misdirected courtship behaviors, according to a study published in Scientific Reports......»»
Armorblox releases Graymail and Recon Attack Protection to stop malicious emails
Armorblox has released its newest product, Graymail and Recon Attack Protection, developed to decrease the time security teams spend managing graymail and mitigate the security risks from malicious recon attacks. This is in addition to the announceme.....»»
Abortion Clinics in Conservative-Led States Face Increasing Threats
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, physical and legal attacks against clinics that provide abortions have increased.....»»
Outdated cybersecurity practices leave door open for criminals
Organizations experienced a significant increase in ransomware – from an average of four attacks over five years in 2021 versus four attacks over the course of one year in 2022, according to ExtraHop. Of those who fell victim, 83% admitted to payin.....»»
Edgio Advanced Bot Management protects users against bot attacks
Edgio has released Advanced Bot Management solution that proactively mitigates a wide range of evolving malicious bots while providing observability into good bots. Leveraging massive amounts of data continuously drawn from the platform’s extensive.....»»
Quantifying cyber risk vital for business survival
Healthcare, manufacturing, and utilities are suffering long-term financial impact of major cyber attacks, according to ThreatConnect. “With the National Cyber Strategy coming out of the White House focusing on decreasing cyber risk from critical in.....»»
Ransomware reinfection and its impact on businesses
Destructive ransomware attacks impact enterprises, governments, airlines, hospitals, hotels, and individuals, causing widespread system downtime, economic loss, and reputational damage. In this Help Net Security video, AnnMarie Nayiga, Lead MDR Analy.....»»
Pre-pandemic techniques are fueling record fraud rates
Within the largest financial institutions, insurers, and retailers, the rise and adoption of AI, an impending recession, and the return of pre-pandemic fraud techniques are driving record rates of fraud attacks for consumers and enterprises alike, ac.....»»
An iPhone just blocked one of the worst spyware attacks on the planet
Apple released a feature called Lockdown Mode last year. Fresh research says it is holding its own against one of the world's most powerful spyware attacks......»»
AI tools like ChatGPT expected to fuel BEC attacks
Across all BEC attacks seen over the past year, 57% relied on language as the main attack vector to get them in front of unsuspecting employees, according to Armorblox. In other trends to watch, vendor compromise and fraud are rising as a new attack.....»»
LockBit gang targets Apple Silicon for ransomware attacks
The LockBit ransomware group has seemingly started to target macOS, following the discovery of the first malware build intended to infect Macs.LockBit is a ransomware gang that has existed for a number of years, using malware to attack high-profile i.....»»
Thales prepares to protect European infrastructures from quantum attacks
Thales has joined forces with around twenty deep tech, academic and industry partners, as part of the EuroQCI initiative (European Quantum Communication Infrastructure), which aims to deploy a quantum communication infrastructure for EU member states.....»»
Daon brings IdentityX to healthcare industry
Daon is expanding its IdentityX to the healthcare industry to enable organizations to safeguard identities for providers, staff, and patients. As the healthcare industry continues to digitize sensitive healthcare online information, cyber attacks inc.....»»
DDoS alert traffic reaches record-breaking level of 436 petabits in one day
With over one billion websites worldwide, HTTP/HTTPS application-layer attacks have increased by 487% since 2019, with the most significant surge in the second half of 2022, according to NETSCOUT. The dynamic nature of the DDoS threat landscape Much.....»»
11:11 Systems Managed SteelDome provides protection from ransomware attacks
11:11 Systems has revealed general availability of 11:11 Managed SteelDome in partnership with SteelDome Cyber. The fully managed service is designed for organizations in need of secure, scalable and cost-efficient storage of their unstructured, on-p.....»»
Don"t recharge your iPhone using public USB ports, FBI warns
The FBI has again warned the public against using public USB ports to recharge an iPhone, with "juice jacking" attacks infecting mobile devices connected to the ports.An iPhone's Lightning portMany people will be familiar with malicious apps and onli.....»»
Flood of malicious packages results in NPM registry DoS
Attackers are exploiting the good reputation and “openness” of the popular public JavaScript software registry NPM to deliver malware and scams, but are also simultaneously and inadvertently launching DoS attacks against the service. Mali.....»»
Can some snakes do cartwheels to escape or startle predators?
In research published in Biotropica, investigators report that the Dwarf Reed Snake (Pseudorabdion longiceps) performs cartwheels when threatened. This is the first time such an active rolling motion has been documented in snakes, with images and a d.....»»
Akamai introduces new premium offering and updated managed security service program
Akamai introduced an updated managed security service program and premium service offerings. The new capabilities are intended to help customers protect their businesses 24×7 from the most sophisticated attacks with proactive monitoring and rapi.....»»
Prevent and detect Adobe ColdFusion exploitation (CVE-2023-26360, CVE-2023-26359)
When Adobe released security updates for its ColdFusion application development platform last month, it noted that one of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-26360) had been exploited in the wild “in very limited attacks.” Were your servers amo.....»»
How can organizations bridge the gap between DR and cybersecurity?
Breaking down the silos between disaster recovery (DR) and cybersecurity has become increasingly important to ensure maximum business resiliency against outages, data breaches, and ransomware attacks. Yet, many organizations still operate these funct.....»»