Security News

How Multi-Stage Phishing Attacks Exploit QRs, CAPTCHAs, and Steganography
2023-11-21 10:40

Phishing attacks are steadily becoming more sophisticated, with cybercriminals investing in new ways of deceiving victims into revealing sensitive information or installing malicious software. One...

Reptar: New Intel CPU Vulnerability Impacts Multi-Tenant Virtualized Environments
2023-11-15 07:52

Intel has released fixes to close out a high-severity flaw codenamed Reptar that impacts its desktop, mobile, and server CPUs. Tracked as CVE-2023-23583 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has the...

34 Cybercriminals Arrested in Spain for Multi-Million Dollar Online Scams
2023-10-24 11:00

Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of 34 members of a criminal group that carried out various online scams, netting the gang about €3 million ($3.2 million) in illegal...

Chinese Hackers TAG-74 Targets South Korean Organizations in a Multi-Year Campaign
2023-09-26 09:49

A "multi-year" Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign has been observed targeting South Korean academic, political, and government organizations. Recorded Future's Insikt Group, which is...

Access control in cloud-native applications in multi-location environments (NIST SP 800-207)
2023-09-14 08:45

Enterprise application environments consist of geographically distributed and loosely coupled microservices that span multiple cloud and on-premises environments. Users from different locations access them through different devices.

Bruschetta-Board: Multi-protocol Swiss Army knife for hardware hackers
2023-09-12 03:00

Bruschetta-Board is a device for all hardware hackers looking for a fairly-priced all-in-one debugger and programmer that supports UART, JTAG, I2C & SPI protocols and allows to interact with different targets' voltages. A handy feature of Bruschetta-Board is the fact it mounts level shifters.

Hackers ask $120,000 for access to multi-billion auction house
2023-08-17 20:17

Hackers claim to have breached the network of a major auction house and offered access to whoever was willing to pay $120,000. The most expensive item for sale was $120,000 for access to the network of a multi-billion dollar auction house.

Cybersecurity as a global, multi-sector activity with Mihoko Matsubara
2023-08-11 02:45

Like many leaders in the cybersecurity space, the professional journey of Mihoko Matsubara did not necessarily begin with securing devices or technology. Discussing her career path with the Left to Our Own Devices podcast and how it opened her eyes to a world of security, Mihoko explained how she went from curiosity to university in Washington, D.C., became a Senior Security Analyst at Hitachi, then VP Public Sector Chief Security Officer at Palo Alto, and to her current position as the Chief Cybersecurity Strategist at NTT Japan.

Multi-modal data protection with AI’s help
2023-08-04 04:56

Cybersecurity risk is distinct from other IT risk in that it has a thinking, adaptive, human opponent. IT generally must deal with first order chaos and risk much like hurricanes in meteorology or...

Assess multi-cloud security with the open-source CNAPPgoat project
2023-08-03 04:30

Ermetic released CNAPPgoat, an open-source project that allows organizations to test their cloud security skills, processes, tools, and posture in interactive sandbox environments that are easy to deploy and destroy. CNAPPgoat supports AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms for assessing the security capabilities included in Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms.