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Researcher recently discovered a malicious Fake Browser Update campaign that being delivered a ransomware and banking malware into target computer via fake browser update. Threat actors are spreading this fake browser mostly via compromised websites that are powered by WordPress

Google’s enterprise cybersecurity venture, Chronicle announced “Backstory”, a new telemetry platform for enterprises to analyze their internal security telemetry to detect potential cyber threats. Chronicle was announced by Alphabet company last year, it focuses entirely on Enterprise Cybersecurity. The virus

Amid the many announcements made at this year’s RSA conference in San Francisco, NTT Security revealed that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WhiteHat Security, a privately owned application security provider recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for

Several universities in the US and Canada have reportedly been the target of nation-state attacks coming from a threat group identified as MUDCARP, believed to be linked to China. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), all

Speaking at RSA Conference 2019 on ‘Defining a cyber-risk appetite that works,’ Jack Jones, chairman of the FAIR Institute, discussed the need to create a risk appetite, and how to identify what you need a risk appetite for. He said

Cloud Adoption on the Rise, IT Pros Unsure of Risk Even though misconfigurations in public clouds create risks to enterprise security, a new study found that more than half of IT professionals do not really understand the risks inherent in

Penetration testing & Hacking Tools Tools are more often used by security industries to test the vulnerabilities in network and applications. Here you can find the Comprehensive Penetration testing tools list that covers Performing Penetration testing Operation in all the

WordPress accounts for the vast majority of compromised CMS platforms, with vulnerable plugins the prime attack vector, Sucuri has revealed in a new report. The GoDaddy-owned security vendor analyzed 18,302 infected websites and over 4.4m cleaned files to compile its

While the volume of mobile bot traffic isn’t anywhere near the volume of traditional desktop bots, new research from ThreatMetrix found that the industry should keep an eye out for mobile bot attacks this year. According to the newly released

Speaking at RSA Conference 2019 Austin Murphy, VP managed services, CrowdStrike, explored the ‘art of remediation’ for responding to cyber-threats. Murphy used the example of Emotet, a threat that has proven to be both problematic and costly to remediate from.

Poorly protected Docker hosts exposed online continue to be a privileged target of crooks that abuse their computational resources in cryptojacking campaigns. Security experts have recently discovered hundreds of exposed Docker hosts that have been compromised by hackers exploiting the

Modern criminals aren’t taking outrageous risks when it comes to bank robberies, according to a new report. Instead, bank robbers have evolved into cyber-criminals, leveraging the digital world to steal from financial institutions in cyberspace. It’s no surprise that financially

Speaking at RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco Steve Grobman, senior vice-president at McAfee, and Dr Celeste Fralick, chief data scientist at McAfee, explored the evolution of AI and its role in both improving information security and enabling more sophisticated

Better bridges need to be built between IT and operational technology (OT). Focusing on the successes in cybersecurity’s past, Matt Watchinski, vice-president of Cisco Talos, said that “we need to analyze success and failure, as without both sides, we don’t

Google Chronicle launched Backstory, the first global security telemetry platform designed to allow companies monitoring cyber threats. Google Chronicle announced Backstory, a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that allows companies quickly investigate incidents, discover vulnerabilities and hunt for cyber threats.

The Necurs Botnet continues to evolve, a new strategy aims at hiding in the shadows, and leverages new payloads to recruits new bots. Necurs botnet is currently the second largest spam botnet, it has been active since at least 2012