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Organisations linked to the Paris Olympics 2024 have an increased risk of cyber attacks, including ransomware, credential leaks and phishing campaigns, a study has found. TechRepublic takes a closer look at the highest priority cyber threats to the 2024 Paris Olympics identified in the report.
Snowflake said if any customer data was taken from its servers, it may have been obtained by thieves who got hold of individual customers' account credentials - via targeted phishing, some other leak, or malware, for example - and not by a general compromise of Snowflake's security. On Friday, in its now-deleted write-up, Hudson Rock wrote that data thieves claimed to have signed into a Snowflake employee's ServiceNow work account and used this access to siphon databases belonging to as many as 400 Snowflake corporate clients.
Verizon customers using Android phones report that they receive blurry images through text messages on different services and apps, with no response from Verizon as to why. Some report that the blurry photos problem on Verizon started in February 2024, but user reports escalated in May following a recent software update from their vendors.
Threat actors are evolving, yet Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) remains confined to each isolated point solution. Organizations require a holistic analysis across external data, inbound and...
In Proofpoint's 2024 Voice of the CISO report, the cybersecurity company found that CISOs are dealing with people-centric threats more than ever. According to the survey, more CISOs than ever believe human error is the biggest vulnerability for their organizations; 74% of the CISOs feel this way, up from 60% in 2023.
The transition to the cloud, poor password hygiene and the evolution in webpage technologies have all enabled the rise in phishing attacks. But despite sincere efforts by security stakeholders to...
A new report from IBM X-Force exposes changes in the Grandoreiro malware landscape. The banking trojan is now capable of targeting more than 1,500 global banks in more than 60 countries, and it has been updated with new features.
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Law enforcement agencies have officially seized control of the notorious BreachForums platform, an online bazaar known for peddling stolen data, for the second time within a year. The website...
Most IT and security teams would agree that ensuring endpoint security and network access security applications are running in compliance with security policies on managed PCs should be a basic task. The 2024 Cyber Resilience Risk Index report found that, if not supported by automated remediation technologies, top endpoint protection platforms and network access security applications are failing to maintain compliance with security policies 24% of the time across its sample of managed PCs. When combined with data showing significant delays in patching applications, Absolute Security argued organisations may be ill-equipped to make the landmark shift to AI PCs, which would require significant resourcing and direct attention away from these foundations of cyber security.