Cyber threats that shaped the first half of 2024
Global cybercrime has shown no sign of decline and is expected to grow strong per year over the next five years. To identify the most urgent cybersecurity threats of the first …
New infosec products of the week: August 30, 2024
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Bitwarden, Dragos, Fortinet, HYCU, and Rezonate. Fortinet introduces sovereign SASE …
Midnight Blizzard delivered iOS, Chrome exploits via compromised government websites
Suspected Russian hackers have been hitting iPhone and Android users visiting government websites with exploits first leveraged by commercial surveillance vendors, Google TAG …
The NIS2 Directive: How far does it reach?
The NIS2 Directive is one of the most recent efforts of the EU legislator to boost cybersecurity across the bloc and to keep up with the challenges of an increasingly …
Why ransomware attackers target Active Directory
Ransomware attacks have surged 78% year-over-year, affecting various sectors and organizations and significantly impacting supply chains. In this Help, Net Security video, …
Deepfakes: Seeing is no longer believing
The threat of deepfakes lies not in the technology itself, but in people’s natural tendency to trust what they see. As a result, deepfakes don’t need to be highly …
Third-party risk management is under the spotlight
In the aftermath of the CrowdStrike IT outage, new research has uncovered a critical vulnerability within financial institutions regarding supply chain resilience. The outage …
Pioneer Kitten: Iranian hackers partnering with ransomware affiliates
A group of Iranian hackers – dubbed Pioneer Kitten by cybersecurity researchers – is straddling the line between state-contracted cyber espionage group and initial …
BlackByte affiliates use new encryptor and new TTPs
BlackByte, the ransomware-as-a-service gang believed to be one of Conti’s splinter groups, has (once again) created a new iteration of its encryptor. “Talos …
APT group exploits WPS Office for Windows RCE vulnerability (CVE-2024-7262)
ESET researchers discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in WPS Office for Windows (CVE-2024-7262). APT-C-60, a South Korea-aligned cyberespionage group, was …
Critical Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow vulnerability patched (CVE-2024-6633)
Organizations using Fortra’s FileCatalyst Workflow are urged to upgrade their instances, so that attackers can’t access an internal HSQL database by exploiting …
Cryptomator: Open-source cloud storage encryption
Cryptomator offers open-source, client-side encryption of your files in the cloud. It’s available for Windows, Linux, macOS and iOS. Cryptomator works with Dropbox, …