Cybersecurity & IT Threats

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

A new malvertising campaign has been found to employ fake sites that masquerade as legitimate Windows news portal to propagate a malicious installer for a popular system profiling tool called CPU-Z. “This incident is a part of a larger malvertising campaign that targets other utilities like Notepad++, Citrix, and VNC Viewer as seen in its

Key Findings There are a few interesting themes that emerged in this year’s research. Firstly, the good news. We are making some important collective progress. Attitudes towards online security remain high, with 84% of people considering it a priority. Almost one in five people are saving passwords in their browser or a password manager, an

M&A activities significantly slowed down in October after a busy summer. The biggest highlight of the month comes from California-based security provider Proofpoint, which closed the acquisition of British cloud email security vendor Tessian at the end of the month. Infosecurity has selected some of the most prominent deals signed in October 2023. SingTel Sells