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Plainsea is a cutting-edge platform set to shake up the cybersecurity scene with its European launch at Infosecurity Europe in 2024. As cyber threats continue to evolve at an alarming rate, the demand for efficient and intelligent cybersecurity solutions has never been higher.

Cyber attacks involving the DarkGate malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation have shifted away from AutoIt scripts to an AutoHotkey mechanism to deliver the last stages, underscoring continued...

Free, open-source cybersecurity tools have become indispensable to protecting individuals, organizations, and critical infrastructure from cyber threats. Cloud Console Cartographer: Open-source tool helps security teams transcribe log activity.

In this Help Net Security video, Paul Prudhomme, Principal Security Analyst at SecurityScorecard, discusses the findings of the 2024 Redefining Resilience: Concentrated Cyber Risk in a Global...

The huge growth in modern apps and their microservices has created an exponential rise in the number of APIs. Companies with over $10 billion in annual revenue claimed they manage more than 1,000 apps and nearly 1,400 APIs, on average.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting the Oracle WebLogic Server to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing...

Snowflake said if any customer data was taken from its servers, it may have been obtained by thieves who got hold of individual customers' account credentials - via targeted phishing, some other leak, or malware, for example - and not by a general compromise of Snowflake's security. On Friday, in its now-deleted write-up, Hudson Rock wrote that data thieves claimed to have signed into a Snowflake employee's ServiceNow work account and used this access to siphon databases belonging to as many as 400 Snowflake corporate clients.

Debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions now says over 3.2 million people have been impacted by a data breach that occurred in February. In late April, the firm reported that roughly 1.9 million people in the U.S. had sensitive personal information compromised in a data breach incident on February 14, 2024.

A former senior executive and former sales manager of Epsilon Data Management LLC were convicted of selling data of millions of Americans to perpetrators of mail fraud schemes. As announced late last week by the U.S. Department of Justice, the two men, Robert Reger and David Lytle, were found guilty of conspiracy and multiple counts of mail and wire fraud for their roles in a scheme that provided targeted consumer lists to fraudsters over a decade.

The official Microsoft India account on Twitter, with over 211,000 followers, was hijacked by cryptocurrency scammers to impersonate Roaring Kitty, the handle used by notorious meme stock trader Keith Gill. Microsoft India's X account has a gold check as an officially verified organization on the platform, lending the hijackers' posts more legitimacy.