Multinational furniture maker Ikea announced it is investigating a cyber incident which took place on its Microsoft Exchange server. Malicious emails were sent around the company appearing to be a genuine “reply all” to an email chain, according to documents shared with BleepingComputer. No customer data was compromised as result of the incident. Other Ikea […]
Security researchers from Unit 42, the research arm of cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, set out a honeypot infrastructure of 320 nodes globally to better understand the attacks against exposed services in public clouds, and 80% of the 320 honeypots were compromised within the first 24. According to the company’s report, all honeypots were compromised […]
Stock trading platform Robinhood announced that certain customer support systems were hacked in early November. The unauthorized party was able to gain access using social engineering through a customer support employee by phone. The hacker was able to obtain access to a list of email addresses of about five million people, and full names of […]
More than half (59%) of workers are using corporate email for personal use, but Gen Z is the biggest offender at 93%, according to identity security company SailPoint, Trust Issues survey. With work and home increasingly blurring amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Sailpoint set out to determine how users behaviors when conducting these activities could put […]
CISOs are starting to express dwindling confidence in protecting all attack vectors, according to research by Check Point. Check Point’s global survey of CISOs indicated “CISOs’ confidence in security goes down as the number of cyber attacks, assets to secure, and the number of vendors’ solutions used in their environment increases.” At least 92% of […]
As ransomware continues to be an increasing threat to the US financial sector, businesses, and the public, the U.S. Treasury’s Crimes Enforcement Network (FInCEN) has identified six money laundering typologies related to ransomware payments: 1. Threat Actors Increasing Request Payments in AECs Ransomware-related payments are initially requested in Bitcoin, however threat actors may also ask […]
Every organization with internet-exposed workloads is vulnerable to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, especially those who are adopting cloud services in the wake of the pandemic. Bad actors will look for ways to take applications offline. The last week of August, Microsoft observed 2.4 terabits per second (Tbps) of DDoS attacks targeting Azure customers in Europe. […]
One of the most common cyberthreats impacting IT Professionals around the world is ransomware, a malicious program made for devices to lock data from users unless they pay a ransom. At least one in five organizations have fallen victim to a cyberattack, while almost one in ten were forced to pay a ransom to recover […]
File sharing and cloud storage management provider Box announced new anti-ransomware capabilities and other new features at Boxworks 2021. Box Shield is the company’s security product that’s integrated within its platform. The latest feature expands its ability to detect and identify sophisticated malware and hard-to-detect ransomware in real-time as files are uploaded to the Box. […]
As law enforcement authorities are grappling with the rise of ransomware and cryptocurrency technologies, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Manac has formed a new National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET). The team will tackle complex investigations and prosecutions of criminal misuses of cryptocurrency and investigate crimes committed by virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, and […]
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