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This year's conference will be a treasure trove of insights for cybersecurity professionals.
An unknown threat actor has been linked to a massive scam campaign that exploited an email routing misconfiguration in email security vendor Proofpoint's defenses to send millions of messages spoofing various legitimate companies. "These emails echoed from official Proofpoint email relays with authenticated SPF and DKIM signatures, thus bypassing major security protections — all to deceive
A list of topics we covered in the week of July 22 to July 28 of 2024
The remote access trojan known as Gh0st RAT has been observed being delivered by an "evasive dropper" called Gh0stGambit as part of a drive-by download scheme targeting Chinese-speaking Windows users. These infections stem from a fake website ("chrome-web[.]com") serving malicious installer packages masquerading as Google's Chrome browser, indicating that users searching for the software on the
Plus: More Pegasus spyware controversy, a major BIOS controversy, and more of the week’s top security news.
Researchers track the healthcare sector as experiencing the biggest financial losses, with banking and transportation following close behind.
The cybersecurity firm says that 97% of sensors are back online, but some organizations continue to recover, with costs tallied at $5.4 billion for the Fortune 500 alone.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday unsealed an indictment against a North Korean military intelligence operative for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks against healthcare facilities in the country and funneling the payments to orchestrate additional intrusions into defense, technology, and government entities across the world. "Rim Jong Hyok and his co-conspirators deployed
CrowdStrike is alerting about an unfamiliar threat actor attempting to capitalize on the Falcon Sensor update fiasco to distribute dubious installers targeting German customers as part of a highly targeted campaign. The cybersecurity company said it identified what it described as an unattributed spear-phishing attempt on July 24, 2024, distributing an inauthentic CrowdStrike Crash Reporter
The fake updates are part of a phishing and fraud surge that is both more voluminous and more targeted that the usual activity around national news stories.