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Insider threats encompass both intentional and unintentional actions. The challenge for organizations is not only to detect and mitigate malicious insider activities but also to cultivate a culture of security awareness and proactive risk management across all levels of the workforce.
YouTube is no longer showing recommended videos to users logged out of a Google account or using Incognito mode, making people concerned they are being bullied into always being signed into the service. This change, which is now rolling out, shows a simple YouTube homepage without any videos or tips on what to watch.
Hackers are breaching WordPress sites by exploiting a vulnerability in outdated versions of the Popup Builder plugin, infecting over 3,300 websites with malicious code. Sucuri says the exact actions of the code may vary, but the primary purpose of the injections appears to be redirecting visitors of infected sites to malicious destinations such as phishing pages and malware-dropping sites.
What organizations need to know about the Digital Operational Resilience ActIn this Help Net Security interview, Kris Lovejoy, Global Security and Resilience Leader at Kyndryl, discusses the impact of the Digital Operational Resilience Act on organizations across the EU, particularly in ICT risk management and cybersecurity. Cisco patches Secure Client VPN flaw that could reveal authentication tokensCisco has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Cisco Secure Client enterprise VPN and endpoint security solution, one of which could be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to grab users' valid SAML authentication token.
A financially motivated hacking group named Magnet Goblin uses various 1-day vulnerabilities to breach public-facing servers and deploy custom malware on Windows and Linux systems. Check Point analysts who identified Magnet Goblin report that these threat actors are quick to exploit newly disclosed vulnerabilities, in some cases exploiting flaws a day after a PoC exploit is released.
Microsoft on Friday revealed that the Kremlin-backed threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard (aka APT29 or Cozy Bear) managed to gain access to some of its source code repositories and internal...
There's yet another group of miscreants out there hijacking insecure Ivanti devices: A new, financially motivated gang dubbed Magnet Goblin has emerged from the shadowy digital depths with a knack for rapidly exploiting newly disclosed vulnerabilities before vendors have issued a fix. The cybercrime crew has targeted US medical, manufacturing, and energy-sector organizations, according to Check Point, which said it spotted Magnet Goblin abusing security holes in Ivanti's code to break into networks back in January just one day after a proof-of-concept, or PoC, exploit was made public.
March 4th 2024 BlackCat ransomware turns off servers amid claim they stole $22 million ransom. March 5th 2024 BlackCat ransomware shuts down in exit scam, blames the "Feds".
It is only a matter of time before we see the ransomware operation rebrand under a new name to repeat this cycle. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang has shut down its servers amid claims that they scammed the affiliate responsible for the attack on Optum, the operator of the Change Healthcare platform, of $22 million.
The plant, which grows to 3 centimetres tall and 2 centimetres wide, emerges to the surface for as little as a week each year. It belongs to a group of plants known as fairy lanterns and has been given the scientific name Relictithismia kimotsukiensis.