Investments in technology solutions aimed at making tax payments more automated and secure have nearly quadrupled from $240 million in 2020 to $864 million in 2021, according to Deloitte.
Malicious actors could exploit a now-addressed vulnerable in the Rarible NFT marketplace to take over accounts and steal cryptocurrency assets, reports The Hacker News.
Forty-three percent of IT and security professionals reported experiencing at least one security incident stemming from software-as-a-service misconfigurations, according to TechRepublic.
Millions of websites could be compromised as a result of a critical vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Elementor, which is leveraged for website creation, according to SiliconAngle.
BleepingComputer reports that threat actors have leveraged a Windows 11 Toolbox script released on GitHub that allowed the inclusion of the Google Play Store in the Android Subsystem to unknowingly infect Microsoft users with malware.
Just weeks after notifying about 318,000 patients of a healthcare data breach, SuperCare is facing two lawsuits that claim the incident was caused by security failures and violated FTC and HIPAA regulations.
Law firm BakerHostetler discovered that healthcare did not only have the greatest increase in data breach-related litigation rates, but also accounted for most breach-related lawsuits last year, according to Healthcare Finance News.
Numerous Internet of Things devices, routers, and server architectures are being targeted by the new Enemybot distributed denial-of-service botnet, which contains modules from the Mirai and Gafgyt botnets' source codes, ZDNet reports.
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