November 2023

Cyber security practitioners believe their work-life balance is becoming increasingly strained as the stress of their roles and growing workloads impacts their home life. Professionals were found to be sacrificing more personal time than ever, according to a study from Centripetal. The survey of security practitioners raised concerns that staff risk burning out and damaging […]

KandyKorn is a stealthy backdoor designed to extract data, file uploading/downloading, directory listing, process termination, secure deletion, and command execution. A new macOS malware dubbed KandyKorn is currently targeting devices of unsuspected cryptocurrency users and blockchain engineers. The malware, KandyKorn, has been linked to the North Korean hacking group Lazarus and was discovered by cybersecurity

The global demand for cybersecurity workers is not only increasing but quickly outpacing supply, according to a new study released Tuesday. The cybersecurity workforce study by the nonprofit ISC2 looked at data from nearly 15,000 cybersecurity practitioners and found that almost half have been impacted by cutbacks, including budget cuts, layoffs and hiring and promotion

The United States and a consortium of some four dozen countries will pledge this week to no longer pay ransoms demanded as part of ransomware attacks, a senior administration official said Monday. The statement will come as part of a meeting of the International Counter Ransomware Initiative set to take place Tuesday. The commitment to

Cybersecurity researchers have unmasked a prolific threat actor known as farnetwork, who has been linked to five different ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) programs over the past four years in various capacities. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB, which attempted to infiltrate a private RaaS program that uses the Nokoyawa ransomware strain, said it underwent a “job interview” process with the threat

Scammers are using AI-generated provocative ads to lure users into downloading and installing the notorious NodeStealer malware. Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender Labs have shared details of a new wave of malware scams targeting Meta’s ad network on Facebook to steal user data via deploying NodeStealer malware. It is an information-stealing tool designed to steal sensitive

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. VentureBeat recently sat down (virtually) with Assaf Keren, CISO and VP of enterprise cyber security at PayPal. Keren’s career at PayPal spans eight years and includes a broad base of experience building security products,

Optus has lost a bid in the federal court to keep secret a report on the cause of the 2022 cyber-attack – which resulted in the personal information of about 10 million customers being exposed – after a judge rejected the telco’s legal privilege claim. After the hack, the company announced in October last year