Online accounts getting hijacked and misused is an everyday occurrence, but did you know that account pre-hijacking attacks are also possible? Inspired by previous research on...
A new cybercrime outfit that calls itself RansomHouse is attempting to carve out a niche of the cyber extortion market for itself by hitting organizations, stealing...
The European Council is to extend certain sanctions for three more years, with the aim of deterring cyber-attacks. The council says that the move will improve the...
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has warned parents that the personal records of more than 495,000 children may have been exposed as the result of a ransomware attack on...
Threat analysts have discovered a recent malware distribution campaign using PDF attachments to smuggle malicious Word documents that infect users with malware. The choice of PDFs...
A critical vulnerability present among 90,000-plus active installations of the Jupiter WordPress theme allows for the takeover of target websites. Although attackers must be authenticated to exploit the...
Publishing giant Nikkei disclosed that the group’s headquarters in Singapore was hit by a ransomware attack almost one week ago, on May 13, 2022. “Unauthorized access...
Bad bots, software applications that run automated tasks with malicious intent, accounted for a record-setting 27.7% of all global website traffic in 2021, up from 25.6% in...
More than 60 instances of a web security flaw in the Swagger-UI library that potentially leads to account takeover have been reported to impacted organizations. Bug...
US Federal agencies have been instructed to either immediately patch or temporarily deactivate a set of enterprise products from VMware in response to “active and expected...