Security News > 2019 > May

Be wary of emails with links to ... er, Google Drive? Is that right?
2019-05-07 15:45

Alibaba, Azure and more used for badness, warns infosec biz Spammers are increasingly turning to common file-sharing and object storage services such as Google Drive and Microsoft Azure, in an...

90% of data breaches in US occur in New York and California
2019-05-07 15:32

Half a billion records have been exposed in total, with over 86 breaches affecting the two states since January, according to Risk Based Security.

Ukrainian Charged With Launching 100 Million Malicious Ads
2019-05-07 15:30

Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov has been extradited in the U.S. after allegedly launching malvertising campaigns that caused victims to view malicious ads on more than 100 million occasions.

MegaCortex ransomware distracts victims with Matrix film references
2019-05-07 14:55

One moment, the defenders’ network looked secure but the next, as if out of nowhere, the ransom note pops up.

Privileged Access Management Solutions Are Shifting to the Cloud: Survey
2019-05-07 14:42

Most companies are planning to move to, or adopt, cloud solutions for their privileged access management (PAM) deployments, at least according to a new survey suggesting that only 36% of companies...

Turla Uses Sophisticated Backdoor to Hijack Exchange Mail Servers
2019-05-07 13:36

The Russia-linked threat group known as Turla has been using a sophisticated backdoor to hijack Microsoft Exchange mail servers, ESET reported on Tuesday. read more

Report: Chinese Hackers First to Use NSA Cyber Weapons
2019-05-07 12:48

Symantec Report Deepens Mystery Around Lost NSA Tools and ExploitsA Chinese hacking group was using exploits and tools developed by the NSA months before the tools were released by another group,...

SIEM Solutions Firm Exabeam Raises $75 Million
2019-05-07 12:41

Exabeam, a San Mateo, California-based provider of a security information and event management (SIEM) solutions, announced on Tuesday that it has closed $75 million in Series E funding.   read more