Tech CEO Elon Musk, who heads Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter and to date has no clones we know of, slammed remote work in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday. Musk said the practice was “morally wrong,” despite the fact that he’s hardly the best example of an office-going parishioner.
A novel hacking collective tracked as Lacefly APT has been recently observed applying a custom Merdoor backdoor to attack organizations in the government, telecom, and aviation sectors across South and Southeastern Asia. According to the latest reports, these targeted intrusions point to a long-running adversary campaign leveraging Merdoor sample, with the first traces dating back […]
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Microsoft is currently patching a zero-day Secure-Boot bug. The BlackLotus bootkit is the first-known real-world malware that can bypass Secure
Cyber criminals have many sophisticated techniques to hack people’s devices and steal their login credentials, but one of their most successful methods is also their simplest: brute force. In this blog, we explain how brute force attacks work, why they differ from methods such as phishing and malware, and the ways organisations can prevent intrusions. What is a brute force attack? A brute force attack is a method of criminal hacking that involves breaking into a system by guessing usernames and passwords. Fraudsters do this through trial and error. They know that many people use commonly used passwords, so it
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Researchers revealed that the UNC3944 threat actors use phishing and SIM-swapping attacks to get control over Microsoft Azure admin accounts. Hackers maliciously used the Azure Serial Console on Azure Virtual Machines (VM) to deploy remote management software within client environments. The method succeeded to avoid the usual detection methods that Azure uses and enabled threat […]
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Acting under the moniker ‘Wazawaka,’ the suspect is accused of orchestrating
high-profile cyberattacks against critical infrastructure such as law
enforcement bodies, government agencies, hospitals and schools.
The alleged hacker is accused of demanding approximately $400 million from his
victims, half of which was
As digital transactions with customers, employees, suppliers, and other stakeholders grow, digital trustworthiness is set to become one of the most important enterprise-wide initiatives with the biggest potential impact (both negative and positive), even though it often has the smallest budget allocation.
“Organizations are focusing on security and privacy, but if your customers don’t trust you, they will go elsewhere,” says Mark Thomas president of Escoute Consulting, which specializes in compliance. This view is borne out in a 2022 DigiCert digital trust survey that found 84% of customers would consider switching if they lost trust in a company.
At the end of March, a cyberattack affected Capita’s systems, resulting in the theft of customer data. Six weeks after the attack was revealed, Capita warned Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), the largest private pension scheme in the UK, to assume that their members’ data was stolen. The USS manages the pensions of over 500,000 UK […]
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