There are now three different strains of destructive malware that have been identified in cyberattacks against organizations in Ukraine, and IT security professionals should be aware of both, especially as cybersecurity experts expect a broader range of cyberattacks to target Western organizations as the U.S. and allies respond to the crisis. Both strains of malware, […]
Cyber attacks on Ukraine’s government and military sector surged by 196% within the first three days of Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, compared to the start of the month, according to Check Point Research. The cybersecurity firm released its findings from the first few days of the conflict, finding that attacks against Ukraine far […]
Symantec, a subsidiary of Broadcom and a member of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, has uncovered a new malware strain the company calls the most advanced piece of malware ever linked to China-based threat actors. The Symantec Threat Hunter team says it uncovered malware that appears to be used […]
Americans spend an average of two hours and five minutes a week making video calls via online meeting platforms like Zoom, Skype, and Microsoft Teams, according to research by NordVPN. With videoconferencing platforms gaining popularity, cybersecurity experts are warning users about the dangers of being scammed and potentially infected by malware through them. “Since the […]
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure AD Identity Protection for workload identities that includes purpose-built anomaly detection capabilities for workload identities with user detections to help protect the entire IT environment. According to Microsoft, cloud migrations include software workloads like apps, services or scripts that access cloud resources and have workload identities in […]
Microsoft now offers multi-cloud protection for the cloud industry’s top three platforms by extending the native capabilities for Microsoft Defender for Cloud to the Google Cloud Platform. This follows cloud security support for AWS in Defender for Cloud, which Microsoft released last November during its Ignite conference. According to Microsoft, Defender for Cloud support for […]
Ransomware attacks almost doubled in 2021, rising to 92.7% year-over-year, according to NCC Group, a global cyber security and risk mitigation firm. The firm’s 2021 Annual Threat Monitor shows a gradual but noticeable rise in ransomware attacks since the pandemic began. Ransomware accounted for 65.38% of all incidents dealt with by NCC’s global cyber response […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a litany of free security tools and resources designed to help organizations advance its security capabilities, including widely used open-source tools and services offered by private and public sector organizations. The catalog of free resources comes amid rising geopolitical tensions that both government agencies and software […]
More than two-thirds were infected with ransomware from a direct email payload, and 60% of those victims paid the ransom, according to new research from cybersecurity and compliance firm Proofpoint. The company’s 2022 State of the Phish Report, the results of a survey of 600 IT professionals and 3,500 workers, reveals that phishing and other […]
Google says there are as many as 400,000 scans for Log4j vulnerabilities against Google Cloud each day, suggesting that IT professionals need to continue to be vigilant and ensure that they remediate vulnerable systems. The claim comes in Google’s Threat Horizons Executive Snapshot this month, a quarterly report from the company’s Cybersecurity Action Team. Google […]
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