New RUSI Report Exposes Psychological Toll of Ransomware, Urges Action
Beyond the headlines of stolen data and financial losses, a new report has shed light on the silent struggle of...
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WordPress Plugins at Risk From Polyfill Library Compromise
WordPress plugins are currently facing significant security risks due to a recent discovery detailed in a security advisory published by...
Half of Employees Fear Punishment for Reporting Security Mistakes
Half of employees fear repercussions from their organization if they report a security mistake, according to a report by ThinkCyber,...
Cyber Extortion Soars: SMBs Hit Four Times Harder
Cyber extortion continues to proliferate with an unprecedented number of threat actors and a 77% year-on-year growth in cyber extortion...
Microsoft Uncovers Major Flaws in Rockwell PanelView Plus
Microsoft’s cybersecurity team has uncovered two significant vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation’s PanelView Plus, a type of human-machine interface (HMI) widely...
Cisco Patches Zero-Day Bug Used by Chinese Velvet Ant Group
A newly patched zero-day vulnerability was exploited by Chinese state-backed hackers to compromise Cisco Nexus switches, researchers have revealed.Cisco released...
Health Tech Execs Get Jail Time For $1bn Fraud Scheme
Three former C-suite executives at a health tech startup have been sentenced after fraudulently obtaining an estimated $1bn from investors...
Ransomware Attack Demands Reach a Staggering $5.2m in 2024
The average extortion demand per ransomware attack was over $5.2m (£4.1m) in the first half of 2024, according to a...
Chrome Update Will Block Entrust Certificates by November 2024
Google has announced that starting November 1, 2024, Chrome version 127 and higher will no longer trust new TLS server authentication...
Mobile Political Spam Surges Threefold For 2024 Election
Election 2024 mobile political spam volumes have seen a threefold increase compared with 2022 midterms. The data comes from recent research by...
Cyber-Insurance Premiums Decline as Firms Build Resilience
Cyber insurance premiums have experienced “double-digit price reductions” over the past year as organizations enhance their cybersecurity, according to a...
Over Six Million Hit by Ransomware Breach at Infosys McCamish Systems
A cyber-attack on outsourcer Infosys McCamish Systems last year impacted more than six million customers, according to a new filing...
Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Data Model Breaches EU Law
The EU Commission has informed Meta that its ‘pay or consent’ model breaches EU law as it does not allow...
Australian Police Arrest Suspect in Fake Wi-Fi Scam Targeting Airport Passengers
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have arrested a 42-year-old Australian resident who allegedly established a network of fake free Wi-Fi...
Google Thwarts Over 10,000 Attempts by Chinese Influence Operator
Google blocked over 10,000 instances of Dragon Bridge activity in Q1 2024, a China-affiliated influence operator that pushes pro-People’s Republic...
TeamViewer Cyber-Attack Attributed to Russian APT Midnight Blizzard
Remote software provider TeamViewer has been hit by a cyber-attack that it has attributed to Russian state-affiliated threat actor Midnight...
Cyber Workforce Grows 15% at Large Organizations as Security is Prioritized
Large organizations have significantly strengthened their cyber workforce in 2024, according to cyber consultancy Wavestone.In its Cyber Benchmark 2024 report,...
Chinese State Actors Use Ransomware to Conceal Real Intent
Chinese APT groups with likely state backing are using ransomware in attacks to throw cybersecurity researchers off the scent and...
CISOs Reveal Firms Prioritize Savings Over Long-Term Security
A third (33%) of security leaders believe companies often sacrifice long-term security for cost savings. The data comes from Bugcrowd’s...
Operation First Light Seizes $257m in Global Scam Bust
Police forces from 61 countries have joined forces to dismantle online scam networks through Operation First Light 2024. The operation, orchestrated...
US Charges Russian Individual for Pre-Invasion Ukraine Hack
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, Amin Timovich Stigal, aged 22, for hacking into and...
Majority of Critical Open Source Projects Contain Memory Unsafe Code
More than half (52%) of critical open source projects contain code written in a memory-unsafe language, according to a new...
Fake Law Firms Con Victims of Crypto Scams, Warns FBI
Victims of cryptocurrency scams have lost nearly $10m over the past year to fraudsters claiming to be lawyers who can...
Cyber Attackers Turn to Cloud Services to Deploy Malware
Malware operators are turning to legitimate cloud services to conduct malicious campaigns, according to cybersecurity firm Fortinet.In a new report,...
