Week in review: API security, malware-less email attacks, reversing the cybersecurity skills shortage
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: What can we do to reverse the cybersecurity skills shortage? Having a strong pipeline …
Preventing exfiltration of sensitive docs by flooding systems with hard-to-detect fakes
A group of researchers from Queen’s University (Canada) have proposed a new approach for keeping important documents safe: creating so many believable fakes that …
Tech support scammers leverage “evil cursor” technique to “lock” Chrome
Tech scammers are constantly coming up with new techniques to make users panic and seek their bogus services. The latest one, documented by Malwarebytes researchers, has been …
Hackers wage a new Cold War
The Cold War of the mid-twentieth century played out as a truly epic conflict. The U.S. and the Soviet Union mobilized spies across the globe, supported proxy armies from the …
New infosec products of the week: September 14, 2018
Exabeam adds updated Case Management module to behavioral analytics product Exabeam Case Management is a module that provides a user interface designed for the workflows of …
Analysis of half-a-billion emails reveals malware-less email attacks are on the rise
FireEye analyzed over half-a-billion emails from 1H 2018, and found that 32% of email traffic seen in the first half of 2018 was considered ‘clean’ and actually delivered to …
Researchers exploring how IoT apps can imitate human decisions
CA Technologies announced its participation in scientific research to discover how Internet of Things (IoT) applications can use a type of AI known as ‘deep learning’ to …
Magecart compromises Feedify to get to hundreds of e-commerce sites
Customer engagement service Feedify has been hit by Magecart attackers, who repeatedly modified a script that it serves to a few hundred websites to include payment card …
DDoS attack frequency grows 40%, low volume attacks dominate
The frequency of DDoS attacks have once again risen, this time by 40% year on year, according to Corero Network Security. While frequency has increased, the duration of …
Mobile fraud is increasing, attack rates rising 24% year-over-year
ThreatMetrix released new cybercrime insights from the first half of 2018, revealing a sharp rise in fraud attack levels on mobile transactions. As consumer behavior …
Phished credentials caused twice as many breaches than malware in the past year
Personal device use for remote work poses the biggest security risk to organisations safeguarding their increasingly mobile and cloud-based IT environment, according to a new …
Security appliance market experiences year-over-year revenue growth
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, the total security appliance market experienced positive unit shipment and revenue growth for the second …