Security News

Phishing attacks targeting businesses are escalating (Help Net Security)
2015-08-05 12:34

Phishing attacks have increased by 38 percent overall in Q2 2015, and the growth has been spurred partly by the ever-growing number and sophisticated types of phishing attacks specifically designed to...

Chinese APTs use commercial VPN to hide their attack activity (Help Net Security)
2015-08-04 16:34

A number of APT actors believed to be of Chinese origin are using a commercial VPN service to anonymize and obfuscate their attack activity. Dubbed Terracotta, the VPN service is marketed mostly to...

Thunderstrike 2 OS X Firmware Attack Self-Replicates to Peripherals (Threatpost)
2015-08-03 17:51

At Black Hat, researchers are expected to disclose new firmware attacks that work against OS X and self replicated to Thunderbolt peripherals.