Iran’s critical infrastructure and strategic networks were attacked with what is reportedly a more sophisticated variant of the decade-old Stuxnet attack, according to Reuters. Iran’s head of civil defense agency, Gholamreza Jalali, told reporters that the newly discovered next-generation of

According to the Symantec experts, the group behind the SamSam ransomware has continued to launch attacks against organizations during 2018. According to the experts, the group behind the SamSam ransomware has continued to launch attacks against organizations during 2018, they

Emails continue to be cyber-criminals’ vector of choice for distributing malware and phishing, according to a report released today by Proofpoint. The Quarterly Threat Report Q3 2018 found that the frequency of email fraud attacks and the number of individuals

News Overview The third quarter 2018 turned out relatively quiet in terms of DDoS attacks. “Relatively” because there were not very many high-level multi-day DDoS onslaughts on major resources. However, the capacities employed by cybercriminals keep growing year after year,

The US authorities have continued to step-up the pressure on China with the indictment of two intelligence officers, two insiders and six hackers, most of whom were allegedly involved in a conspiracy to steal aviation secrets. Two intelligence officers, Zha

The hotel chain Radisson Hotel Group suffered a security breach that exposed personal information of the members of its loyalty scheme. The hotel chain Radisson Hotel Group suffered a security breach that exposed personal information (name, address (including country of

In his keynote speech at the Securing the Enterprise 2018 conference in Cambridge, MA, BT Security president Mark Hughes said that when it comes to the threats enterprises and government are facing, the global network is telling us that old

A study on the state of software security released today by CA Veracode evidenced improvements in DevOps security, suggesting that DevSecOps is facilitating better security and efficiency. While the report shows promise on the development side, it also analyzed flaw

Cybercriminals continue to abuse unprotected Docker APIs to create new containers used for cryptojacking, Trend Micro warns. Crooks continue to abuse unprotected Docker APIs to create new containers used for cryptojacking. Earlier this year Sysdig and Aqua Security researchers started

Authors: Kaspersky Lab and the Oxford University Functional Neurosurgery Group There is an episode in the dystopian near-future series Black Mirror about an implanted chip that allows users to record and replay everything they see and hear. A recent YouGov

According to new research released by ZeroFOX, Fortnite has become a hotbed for scammers targeting the in-game currency of the popular online game. Between early September and early October, ZeroFOX generated more than 53,000 alerts related to Fortnite scams, of

Customers of a little-known Canadian cryptocurrency exchange are set to lose all their coins after hackers allegedly made off with around $6m, although some suspect an exit scam. MapleChange took to Twitter on Sunday morning to claim that it had

IBM announced it is going to buy the open source company Red Hat for $34bn with the intent to enhance its cloud offerings. This is the biggest tech merger in history involving a software company. Red Hat was founded in

Researchers discovered a “high” severity command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15442, in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop. It’s time to patch again the Cisco Webex video conferencing software of your organization to avoid ugly surprise. Researchers Ron Bowes and Jeff McJunkin

Good news for the victims of the infamous GandCrab ransomware, security experts have created a decryption tool that allows them to decrypts files without paying the ransom. Bitdefender security firm along with Europol, the FBI, Romanian Police, and other law

Security experts Antonio Pirozzi and Pierluigi Paganini presented BOTCHAIN, the first fully functional Botnet built upon the Bitcoin Protocol. Security expert Antonio Pirozzi, director at ZLab malware lab at Cybaze firm, presented at the EU Cyber Threat Conference in Dublin