Extensive exploitation by threat actors for malware delivery, credential theft, and financial fraud schemes has prompted LinkedIn to unveil new security features aimed at combating phony profiles and malicious platform utilization, reports BleepingComputer.
Finally, in the enterprise security news, The company behind Basecamp and the Hey.com email service pulls anchor and exits the cloud, Your self-hosted Exchange Server might be a problem…Is Confidential Computing for suckers? Gen Z and Millennials found not taking things seriously in, survey fielded by Boomers, Industrial Cybersecurity Market expect...
This week in the Security News: rethinking vulnerability severity, exploiting the hacker tools, Microsoft "fixes" the vulnerable driver problem, its what you do with the data that matters, what is comprehensive security, deconflictions, moles are always a problem, checking the certs, oh and there is a vulnerability in OpenSSL, well at least one tha...
More than 167,000 payment records have been exfiltrated by threat actors in a point-of-sale malware campaign leveraging the Treasure Hunter and MajikPOS strains since February 2021, with most of the stolen data obtained from U.S.-based devices, reports CyberScoop.
Thirty malicious web browser extensions with more than a million installs in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have been leveraged as part of the new Dormant Colors malvertising campaign, reports BleepingComputer.
This week Dr. Doug postulates: Fibonacci lasers, Mark of the Web, typosquatting, malvertising, death to 486, AI Coding, CISA, Apple, along with the Expert Commentary of Jason Wood on the Security Weekly News!
Thousands of GitHub repositories have been discovered to feature phony proof-of-concept exploits for different vulnerabilities, with the odds of being impacted by malware up to 10.3% higher than securing a PoC, reports BleepingComputer.
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