It’s all very well offering ‘Free Debt Help,’ but recipients were unwilling, says watchdog… A financial services company that illegally dispatched tens of thousands of spam messages promising to help the recipients magically wipe away their debts is itself now…
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Safeguarding against the global ransomware threat
How Object First’s Ootbi delivers ransomware-proof and immutable backup storage that can be up and running in minutes Sponsored Feature Ransomware is used by cybercriminals to steal and encrypt critical business data before demanding payment for its restoration. It represents…
BreachForums admin ‘Pompourin’ sentenced to 20 years of supervised release
ALSO: Another UEFI flaw found; Kaspersky discovers iOS log files actually work; and a few critical vulnerabilities in brief Conor Brian Fitzpatrick – aka “Pompourin,” a former administrator of notorious leak site BreachForums – has been sentenced to 20 years…
Russians invade Microsoft exec mail while China jabs at VMware vCenter Server
Plus: Uncle Sam says Ivanti exploits ‘consistent with PRC’ snoops A VMware security vulnerability has been exploited by Chinese cyberspies since late 2021, according to Mandiant, in what has been a busy week for nation-state espionage news.… This article has…
Five ripped off IT giant with $7M+ in bogus work expenses, prosecutors claim
Account manager and pals blew it on hotels, cruise, fancy meals and more allegedly Five people have been accused of pulling off a “brazen” scam that involved submitting more than $7 million in fake work expense claims to an IT…
Thieves steal 35.5M customers’ data from Vans sneakers maker
But what kind of info was actually compromised? None of your business VF Corporation, parent company of clothes and footwear brands including Vans and North Face, says 35.5 million customers were impacted in some way when criminals broke into their…
IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security
Spotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime A security researcher in Germany has been fined €3,000 ($3,300, £2,600) for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability that was exposing almost 700,000 customer records.……
US agencies warn made-in-China drones might help Beijing snoop on the world
It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s a flying menace out to endanger national security Two US government agencies, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), warned on Wednesday that drones made in China…
JPMorgan exec claims bank repels 45 billion cyberattack attempts per day
Assets boss also reckons she has more engineers than Amazon The largest bank in the United States repels 45 billion – yes, with a B – cyberattack attempts per day, one of its leaders claimed at the World Economic Forum…
Future of America’s Cyber Safety Review Board hangs in balance amid calls for rethink
Politics-busting, uber-transparent incident reviews require independence, less internal conflict As the US mulls legislation that would see the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) become a permanent fixture in the government’s cyber defense armory, experts are calling for substantial changes in…
Ransomware attacks hospitalizing security pros, as one admits suicidal feelings
Untold harms of holding the corporate perimeter revealed in extensive series of interviews Ransomware attacks are being linked to a litany of psychological and physical illnesses reported by infosec professionals, and in some cases blamed for hospitalizations.… This article has…
Two more Citrix NetScaler bugs exploited in the wild
Just when you thought you had recovered from Bleed Two vulnerabilities in NetScaler’s ADC and Gateway products have been fixed – but not before criminals found and exploited them, according to the vendor.… This article has been indexed from The…
Google TAG: Kremlin cyber spies move into malware with a custom backdoor
The threat hunters believe COLDRIVER has used SPICA since at least November 2022 Russian cyberspies linked to the Kremlin’s Federal Security Service (FSB) are moving beyond their usual credential phishing antics and have developed a custom backdoor that they started…
Vast botnet hijacks smart TVs for prime-time cybercrime
8-year-old op responsible for DDoS attacks and commandeering broadcasts to push war material Security researchers have pinned a DDoS botnet that’s infected potentially millions of smart TVs and set-top boxes to an eight-year-old cybercrime syndicate called Bigpanzi.… This article has…
Enter the era of platform-based cloud security
How an integrated platform can streamline the management overhead, improve cloud security and boost threat visibility Sponsored Post Reports suggest that forward-looking organisations are ditching legacy point-based cloud security offerings and replacing them with more efficient integrated platforms which slash…
Insurance website’s buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove
Pen-tester accessed more than 650,000 sensitive messages, and still can, at Indian outfit using Toyota SaaS Toyota Tsusho Insurance Broker India (TTIBI), an Indo-Japanese joint insurance venture, operated a misconfigured server that exposed more than 650,000 Microsoft-hosted email messages to…
Apple, AMD, Qualcomm GPU security hole lets miscreants snoop on AI training and chats
So much for isolation A design flaw in GPU drivers made by Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and likely Imagination can be exploited by miscreants on a shared system to snoop on fellow users.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
What’s worse than paying an extortion bot that auto-pwned your database?
Paying one that lied to you and only saved the first 20 rows of each table Publicly exposed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases with weak passwords are being autonomously wiped out by a malicious extortion bot – one that marks who…
Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users
Uninstall the update or edit the Windows registry to restore order The latest Windows Server 2022 patch has broken the Chrome browser, and short of uninstalling the update, a registry hack is the only way to restore service for affected…
Home improvement marketers dial up trouble from regulator
ICO slaps penalties on two businesses that collectively made more than 3 million cold calls Another week and yet another couple of pesky cold callers face fines from the UK’s data privacy watchdog for “bombarding” unsuspecting households with marketing messages…