Category: News

You Can’t Eliminate Cyberattacks, So Focus on Reducing the Blast Radius

Tony Lauro, director of security technology and strategy at Akamai, discusses reducing your company’s attack surface and the “blast radius” of a potential attack.

Novel ‘Nerbian’ Trojan Uses Advanced Anti-Detection Tricks

The stealthy, feature-rich malware has multistage evasion tactics to fly under the radar of security analysis, researchers at Proofpoint have found.

Intel Memory Bug Poses Risk for Hundreds of Products

Dell and HP were among the first to release patches and fixes for the bug.

Novel Phishing Trick Uses Weird Links to Bypass Spam Filters

A novel form of phishing takes advantage of a disparity between how browsers and email inboxes read web domains.

Ransomware Deals Deathblow to 157-year-old College

Why a private college that stayed in business for 157 years had to close after the combo of COVID-19 and ransomware proved too much.

Actively Exploited Zero-Day Bug Patched by Microsoft

Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday roundup also included critical fixes for a number of flaws found in infrastructure present in many enterprise and cloud environments.

Hackers Actively Exploit F5 BIG-IP Bug

The bug has a severe rating of 9.8, public exploits are released.

Conti Ransomware Attack Spurs State of Emergency in Costa Rica

The threat group has leaked data that it claims was stolen in the breach and is promising more government-targeted attacks.

Low-rent RAT Worries Researchers

Researchers say a hacker is selling access to quality malware for chump change.

FBI: Rise in Business Email-based Attacks is a $43B Headache

A huge spike in fraudulent activities related to attacks leveraging business email accounts is a billion-dollar-problem.