SC Media caught up with the chief research officer at Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure to hear what risk might look like as rapid increases in computing power usher in an era of building "with no restrictions."
More than a dozen industrial enterprise organizations, government agencies, military entities, and other public organizations in Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Belarus, and other countries in Eastern Europe have been compromised by the Chinese hacking group TA428 through a widespread phishing campaign that leveraged six backdoors, The Register reports.
BleepingComputer reports that email marketing company Klaviyo has been impacted by a data breach last Wednesday that has compromised its internal systems, as well as cryptocurrency customers' marketing lists following a phishing attack that allowed attackers to gain employee credentials.
Cross-chain cryptocurrency platform deBridge Finance was suspected to be targeted by North Korean hacking group Lazarus in a phishing campaign aimed at cryptocurrency theft, according to BleepingComputer.
We welcome the infamous Eclypsium security researchers Mickey and Jesse to talk about Secure Boot vulnerabilities. They walk us through the history of Secure Boot, how it works, previous research they've performed ("Boothole"), and some details on their current research presented at Defcon this year in a talk titled "One bootloader to rule them all...
Salinas Valley Memorial Health will pay the patients impacted by a 2020 email hack $340,000 to resolve a lawsuit alleging the California health system’s poor cybersecurity caused the breach.
Microsoft, FedEx, and other brands have been impersonated in separate phishing campaigns between mid-May and late July that involved the exploitation of an open redirect vulnerability in Snapchat and American Express domains in an effort to exfiltrate credentials and personally identifiable information, reports Threatpost.
Forty-five percent of organizations surveyed by Verizon said they experienced mobile-related security incidents this year, which was 22% higher than last year, TechRepublic reports.
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