Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has blamed a “sophisticated state actor” for the recent attempt to hack the parliament’s computer network. On February 8 news broke of the malicious activity which resulted in password resets for government workers. Speaking today,

Last week, Aleksa Sarai, a senior software engineer at SUSE Linux GmbH, disclosed a serious vulnerability tracked CVE-2019-5736 affecting runc, the default container runtime for Docker, containerd, Podman, and CRI-O. The vulnerability was discovered by the security researchers Adam Iwaniuk

Most of us know MITRE and the ATT&CK(TM) framework that they have come up with. What a splendid job they have done for the cyber security community by bringing most of the key attack vectors under an organized framework that

Security experts at Carbon Black have recently discovered a new strain of the Shlayer malware that targets macOS versions. Security experts at Carbon Black have recently spotted a new strain of the Shlayer malware that targets MacOS versions from 10.10.5

UK and US CISOs are facing burnout as they struggle to cope with escalating cyber-threats, insufficient budgets and a lack of engagement from the board, according to Nominet. The DNS security provider commissioned Osterman Research to poll over 400 security

A software company has been forced to remind customers to patch a two-year-old flaw in a third-party plug-in, after reports it is being exploited to infect scores of companies with GandCrab ransomware via their managed security provider (MSP). The issue

Google has claimed it’s getting better at spotting bad apps on its Play Store marketplace, with the number of rejected submissions and suspensions both growing into the double digits last year. The Android platform has often been criticized by security

Experts at Trend Micro have detected a new strain of MacOS malware that hides inside a Windows executable to avoid detection. Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new strain of MacOS malware disguises itself as a Windows executable

A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web, this time the huge trove of data appears to be originated from eight companies. A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘gnosticplayers‘ is offering for sale the

A new Astaroth Trojan campaign was spotted by the Cybereason’s Nocturnus team, hackers are targeting Brazil and European countries. Researchers at Cybereason’s Nocturnus team have uncovered a new Astaroth Trojan campaign that is currently exploiting the Avast antivirus and security

Russia plans to disconnect the country from the internet as part of an experiment aimed at testing the response to cyber attacks that should isolate it. Russia plans to conduct the country from the Internet for a limited period of

Two different WordPress plugins have caused a few headaches this week. Hackers reportedly exploited an old vulnerability found in the WordPress plugin WP Cost Estimation & Payment Forms Builder, according to Wordfence. A second and critical vulnerability was also found

In the aftermath of multiple reports that millions of stolen records were dumped on the dark web, the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed that the accounts of approximately six million users were compromised in a breach, according to a

A leading Maltese bank is resuming its services today after shutting down operations following a major cyber-attack on Wednesday. The Bank of Valetta (BOV) said in a notice on Thursday morning that customers could once again use ATMs, online banking,

A majority of organizations confessed that they are not certain whether the security strategies they have in place will be effective in preventing data breaches, according to a Ponemon Institute survey. More than 600 cybersecurity leaders and professionals who are

A technology partner of the three big credit reporting agencies has been breached in what appears to be a classic supply chain attack. Image-I-Nation Technologies is a North Carolina-based provider of software and hosting services. It’s part of FRS Software,