Digital security and privacy company Avast has issued a warning after it discovered three VPN Apps, available on the Apple App Store, which it claimed are fraudulent and appear to be ‘fleeceware’ – apps that are not ‘malicious’ but do

The number of malicious Android apps detected in the first three months of the year is double that of the same period last year, according to new data from Upstream. The mobile technology company’s Secure-D platform discovered over 29,000 malicious

Security researchers from Talos discovered two vulnerabilities with the popular Zoom video chatting that allows a malicious user in the conference to execute arbitrary code on victims’ machines. Zoom is a popular video conferencing software across the globe that are

Recently, a group of security researchers at Citadelo has revealed a new vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director, a leading cloud service-delivery platform that could potentially allow an attacker to access sensitive data and control private clouds within the infrastructure. The

Confidential documents have been swiped from a US military nuclear missile contractor in a cyber-attack, according to Sky News. Today the news service reported that cyber-criminals were able to gain unauthorized access to the computer network of New Mexico company

Employee work from home habits are putting businesses at a higher risk of cyber-attacks, according to a study by CyberArk. It revealed that a large proportion of remote workers in the UK regularly engage in practices including using unmanaged, insecure

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is the most prominent trend in cybersecurity for 2020, according to Infosecurity Magazine’s latest State of Cybersecurity Report. As outlined in a session at the Infosecurity Europe Virtual Conference, in the annual report, which

Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe Virtual Conference Dr Jessica Barker, co-CEO of Cygenta, discussed the importance and effectiveness of positive reinforcement in managing the human element of risk. Dr Barker said: “Using the ‘carrot’ or rewarding people is the most

REvil /Sodinokibi ransomware operators launch an auction site to sell data stolen from victims that have chosen to not pay the ransom. Sodinokibi ransomware operators are very active in this period, a few days after the gang has leaked the

In a session at the Infosecurity Europe Virtual Conference, a panel of security experts were asked to define the human element of risk to help organizations quantify and manage it. David Boda, head of information security at Camelot (National Lottery)

Almost 80% of US companies have suffered at least one cloud security breach over the past 18 months, with misconfiguration the number one concern among CISOs, according to Ermetic. The cloud security vendor commissioned IDC to interview 300 US cybersecurity

Security experts are warning of growing dark web demand for access to users’ YouTube accounts. Etay Maor, CSO at cyber-intelligence firm IntSights, explained that in recent weeks his team has noticed an uptick in demand for stolen credentials for prominent

A prolific ransomware group has begun auctioning data stolen from victim organizations that refuse to pay up, marking an escalation in its monetization efforts. The gang behind the REvil (aka Sodinokibi) variant this week took to its dark web blog

Recently, security researchers have discovered a very distinct software bug that is marked as a very critical software bug, as it turns an airplane in the wrong way. Nav Canada firstly identified this bug in 2017 on a Bombardier CRJ-200,

Several flaws in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) have been exploited by Russia-linked hackers, hundreds of thousands of servers are still unpatched. Russia-linked threat actors have exploited several vulnerabilities in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) in their campaigns.

New York City’s cybersecurity bootcamp partner is offering free introductory training courses to all American citizens. Fullstack Cyber Bootcamp hopes that the initiative will encourage some of the 41 million Americans currently claiming state or federal unemployment benefits to forge