City of Oakland Hit by Ransomware
Hackers have infiltrated the IT infrastructure of Oakland, forcing the San Francisco Bay area metropolis to take systems offline as…
February 2023
Hackers Breach Namecheap Email Account, Launch Aggressive Phishing Campaign
Namecheap, one of the world’s leading domain registrars, has been hit by a security incident that allowed perpetrators to launch…
Dallas Central Appraisal District paid $170,000 to ransomware attackers
A Dallas state agency has admitted to paying $170,000 to hackers after it suffered a ransomware attack. The Dallas Central…
Bitdefender to Support Its Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 Compatible Security Solutions Until 2024
Microsoft announced in January that Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 have reached end of life and will no longer receive…
FTC exposes romance scammers’ lies costing victims over $1 billion in losses
Romance scammers received a hefty payout last year, with some 70,000 victims losing a whopping $1.3 billion, according to the…
Reddit Discloses Security Incident – Your Password Is Safe (for Now)
A “sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack” on Reddit caught an employee off guard, leading to a hack of the giant…
North Korea’s APT37 Targeting Southern Counterpart with New M2RAT Malware
The North Korea-linked threat actor tracked as APT37 has been linked to a piece of new malware dubbed M2RAT in…
Webinar — A MythBusting Special: 9 Myths about File-based Threats
Bad actors love to deliver threats in files. Persistent and persuasive messages convince unsuspecting victims to accept and open files…
Financially Motivated Threat Actor Strikes with New Ransomware and Clipper Malware
A new financially motivated campaign that commenced in December 2022 has seen the unidentified threat actor behind it deploying a…
Regular Pen Testing Is Key to Resolving Conflict Between SecOps and DevOps
In an ideal world, security and development teams would be working together in perfect harmony. But we live in a…