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Why ransomware attackers target Active Directory
2024-08-29 04:00

Ransomware attacks have surged 78% year-over-year, affecting various sectors and organizations and significantly impacting supply chains. In this Help, Net Security video, Craig Birch, Technology...

Deepfakes: Seeing is no longer believing
2024-08-29 03:30

The threat of deepfakes lies not in the technology itself, but in people’s natural tendency to trust what they see. As a result, deepfakes don’t need to be highly advanced or convincing to...

Third-party risk management is under the spotlight
2024-08-29 03:00

In the aftermath of the CrowdStrike IT outage, new research has uncovered a critical vulnerability within financial institutions regarding supply chain resilience. The outage has demonstrated the...

CrowdStrike's meltdown didn't dent its market dominance … yet
2024-08-29 02:27

Total revenue for Q2 grew 32 percent CrowdStrike's major meltdown a month ago doesn't look like affecting the cyber security vendor's market dominance anytime soon, based on its earnings reported...

South Korean hackers exploited WPS Office zero-day to deploy malware
2024-08-28 22:50

The South Korea-aligned cyberespionage group APT-C-60 has been leveraging a zero-day code execution vulnerability in the Windows version of WPS Office to install the SpyGlace backdoor on East...

Microsoft hosts a security summit but no press, public allowed
2024-08-28 22:20

CrowdStrike, other vendors, friendly govt reps…but not anyone would can tell you what happened op-ed Microsoft will host a security summit next month with CrowdStrike and other "key" endpoint...

Proof-of-concept code released for zero-click critical IPv6 Windows hole
2024-08-28 21:20

If you haven't deployed August's patches, get busy before others do Windows users who haven't yet installed the latest fixes to their operating systems will need to get a move on, as code now...

Employee arrested for locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in extortion plot
2024-08-28 21:19

A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in a failed extortion plot...

US offers $2.5 million reward for hacker linked to Angler Exploit Kit
2024-08-28 21:12

The U.S. Department of State and the Secret Service have announced a reward of $2,500,000 for information leading to Belarusian national Volodymyr Kadariya (Владимир Кадария) for cybercrime...

PoorTry Windows driver evolves into a full-featured EDR wiper
2024-08-28 18:57

The malicious PoorTry kernel-mode Windows driver used by multiple ransomware gangs to turn off Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions has evolved into an EDR wiper, deleting files crucial...