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Cybersecurity & IT Threats

Expanding ‘IT Threats’ to include various aspects of cybersecurity, not just threats.

Experts Expose Farnetwork's Ransomware-as-a-Service Business Model

Experts Expose Farnetwork’s Ransomware-as-a-Service Business Model

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 […]

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Provocative Facebook Ads Leveraged to Deliver NodeStealer Malware

Provocative Facebook Ads Leveraged to Deliver NodeStealer Malware

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

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PayPal's CISO on how generative AI can improve cybersecurity | VentureBeat

PayPal’s CISO on how generative AI can improve cybersecurity | VentureBeat

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,

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Optus loses court bid to keep report into cause of cyber-attack secret | Optus | The Guardian

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

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New Malvertising Campaign Uses Fake Windows News Portal to Distribute Malicious Installers

New Malvertising Campaign Uses Fake Windows News Portal to Distribute Malicious Installers

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

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Cybersecurity Progress is Being Made, But There is a Long Way to Go – Infosecurity Magazine

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

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Cybersecurity M&A: Proofpoint Finalizes Tessian Acquisition - Infosecurity Magazine

Cybersecurity M&A: Proofpoint Finalizes Tessian Acquisition – Infosecurity Magazine

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

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DDoS attack revealed as cause of online service outage at public healthcare institutions

DDoS attack revealed as cause of online service outage at public healthcare institutions

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been identified as the cause of an online service outage that affected several public healthcare institutions in Singapore. And the attacks are continuing, according to national healthtech agency Synapxe, which is responsible for the IT operations that support the country’s public healthcare network. This network encompasses 46 public healthcare

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Scarred Manticore Targets Middle East With Advanced Malware – Infosecurity Magazine

An ongoing Iranian espionage campaign led by Scarred Manticore, an actor associated with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), has been observed targeting high-profile organizations in the Middle East, particularly in the government, military and telecommunications sectors. Its targets also include IT service providers, financial organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Discovered by Check Point Research

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3 Things CISOs Should Be Doing This Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Infosecurity Magazine

Cybersecurity Awareness Month plays a pivotal role in raising awareness around the importance of cybersecurity on a national and global scale. While the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) stresses the importance of multi-factor authentication, strong passwords, and up-to-date software, it’s imperative to go one step further and take stock of an enterprise’s overall cybersecurity

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