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Akamai is investigating an ongoing outage affecting many major websites and online services, including Steam, the PlayStation Network, Newegg, AWS, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce. While the company has already acknowledged the issue, pinning it on an Edge DNS service problem, Akamai is still trying to find the underlying cause behind the incident.
A new initiative aims to make it easier to report personal abuse and harassment within the information security industry - without the involvement of social media mobs. Respect in Security, launched today with support from Trend Micro's veep of security research Rik Ferguson, Lisa Forte, a partner at Red Goat Cyber Security and other notable folk from the UK infosec scene, aims to set up a "Vulnerability style" reporting scheme for infosec professionals to flag up harassment and abuse to abusers' employers.
A new initiative aims to make it easier to report personal abuse and harassment within the information security industry - without the involvement of social media mobs. Respect in Security, launched today with support from Trend Micro's veep of security research Rik Ferguson, Lisa Forte, a partner at Red Goat Cyber Security and other notable folk from the UK infosec scene, aims to set up a "Vulnerability style" reporting scheme for infosec professionals to flag up harassment and abuse to abusers' employers.
An ongoing worldwide campaign is pushing new malware dubbed MosaicLoader advertising camouflaged as cracked software via search engine results to infect wannabe software pirates' systems. MosaicLoader is a malware downloader designed by its creators to deploy more second-stage payloads on infected systems, as Bitdefender researchers revealed in a report published today and shared with BleepingComputer last week.
Syngrafii launched its proprietary iinked Seal capability developed to enable lawyers and notaries to affix electronic seals to documents in real time on a video platform. The new product is a key development in Syngrafii's 2021 Platform Release 2.6 - adding compliant notarization functionality to its suite of eSignature solutions that includes iinked Sign and Video Signing Room technologies.
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a new malware that's striking online gambling companies in China via a watering hole attack to deploy either Cobalt Strike beacons or a previously undocumented Python-based backdoor called BIOPASS RAT that takes advantage of Open Broadcaster Software Studio's live-streaming app to capture the screen of its victims to attackers. The attack involves deceiving gaming website visitors into downloading a malware loader camouflaged as a legitimate installer for popular-but-deprecated apps such as Adobe Flash Player or Microsoft Silverlight, only for the loader to act as a conduit for fetching next-stage payloads.
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore today released data revealing that cybercrime accounted for 43 per cent of all crime in the city-state during 2020. Ransomware attacks rose 154 per cent from 35 cases in 2019 to 89 in 2020, shifting from what CSA called "Indiscriminate, opportunistic attacks" to "Big Game Hunting".
Consumers around the world fear that businesses are now compromising online security in their efforts to deliver seamless digital experiences. According to a research released by Trulioo, 71% of respondents living in China, the UK and the U.S. feel that online brands are now prioritizing speed over security.
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A security vulnerability in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance that was addressed by the company last October, and again earlier this April, has been subjected to active in-the-wild attacks following the release of proof-of-concept exploit code. The PoC was published by researchers from cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies on June 24, following which reports emerged that attackers are chasing after an exploit for the bug.