BleepingComputer reports that the U.S. and Europe have been facing more attacks distributing the EvilExtractor data theft tool, with intrusions peaking last month, most of which involved a phishing campaign.
Exploitation of a six-year-old vulnerability by notorious Russian cyber espionage group APT28 highlights the risks organizations face keeping up with patch management.
Nearly a dozen farms at Israel's Jordan Valley as well as Galil Sewage Corporation's wastewater treatment control systems have been disrupted following cyberattacks targeted at programmable logic controllers by Israeli firm Unitronics, according to SecurityWeek.
Securing the business can often come at a cost of employee productivity, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Especially in today’s economic climate, the security team cannot be seen as a blocker to business. Aviv discusses how to find that balance in today’s episode. This segment is sponsored by Votiro. Visit https://securityweekly.com/votiro to le...
US accounting firms warned of new phishing campaign BleepingComputer reports that accounting and tax return preparation firms and individuals across the U.S. have been warned by Microsoft regarding an ongoing phishing campaign involving the distribution of the Remcos remote access trojan malware since February in an attempt to exploit the imminent end of the annual tax season.
Russian state-sponsored hacking group APT29, also known as Cozy Bear and Nobelium, has been linked to the widespread ongoing cyberespionage campaign against countries part of NATO and the European Union by Poland's Military Counterintelligence Service and its Computer Emergency Response Team, BleepingComputer reports.
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