In the latest sorry COVID-19 scam, fraudsters are impersonating financial institutions to steal from Americans expecting stimulus checks from the US federal government. Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, many Americans have been furloughed, fired, or had their hours

xHelper, a new strain of Android malware is able to re-install itself on infected devices even after victims delete it or force a factory reset. xHelper is a piece of malware that was first spotted in October 2019 by experts from

New research has found that the Linux platform has been under attack from Chinese threat groups for a decade. The “Decade of the RATs Research Report,” published today by BlackBerry, reveals how five Chinese APT groups targeted Linux servers, Windows

UK businesses could save up to GBP1.3bn by purchasing cybersecurity products and services from a more diverse range of suppliers, according to a study by Cynapse. It suggests that shopping around for cybersecurity services, thereby democratizing the market, would be

A new report from the Ponemon Institute has revealed that just 24% of organizations focus on optimizing cyber-attack prevention capabilities, despite 70% of security professionals believing that the ability to effectively prevent attacks strengthens security posture. The research report, The

Microsoft recently patched a remote code execution vulnerability with Microsoft Exchange Server that allows an attacker to use an Exchange user account to compromise the system completely. The bug resides in the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) component, which can be

Rising threat levels and remote working challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic are putting increased pressure on IT security professionals, according to new data from Check Point. The vendor polled over 400 respondents from global organizations with over 500 employees

INTERPOL has been forced to issue an alert to global police about the heightened risk of ransomware attacks on hospitals and other front-line organizations as they battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The law enforcement organization said it issued a Purple Notice

NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio Claim that Facebook tried to buy a Pegasus Spyware to monitor better their users especially access to the Apple user’s data and their activities. Pegasus is a powerful commercial spyware developed by Israel based spyware

Internet traffic saw a major spike in March, but it will scale in the face of increased user demand. Speaking as part of the Akamai Edge conference, delivered as a virtual summit, Tom Leighton, CEO and co-founder of Akamai, said

Researchers discovered a new wave of malware campaign that believed to be launched by APT hackers group using legitimate NSIS software to pack and launch the Shellcode on Windows. NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is an open-source system script-driven installer

A new campaign observed using COVID-19/Coronavirus-themed email appears to be coming from the World Health Organization (WHO) delivers the infamous Lokibot malware. The emails include a compressed file and the compression used is ARJ, which is used for creating high-efficiency

DarkHotel nation-state actor is exploiting a VPN zero-day to breach Chinese government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai Chinese security-firm Qihoo 360 has uncovered a hacking campaign conducted by a DarkHotel APT group (APT-C-06) aimed at Chinese government agencies in Beijing

Brute forcing accounts with weak and guessable passwords, and exploitation using the EternalBlue vulnerability remain among the top 10 findings in penetration tests. According to research by Lares, the most frequently encountered vulnerabilities and attack vectors during engagements in the

Its time to update your Firefox Now!! Mozilla released a security update with Firefox 74.0.1 & Firefox ESR 68.6.1 release and fixed 2 critical Zero-day vulnerabilities that actively exploited in wide as a targeted attack. Both of the vulnerabilities are

Russian telco operator Rostelecom was involved in BGP hijacking incident that impacted hundreds of CDNs and cloud providers last week. Last week, Russia’s state-owned telco Rostelecom was involved in an apparent incident that hijacked the traffic for more than 200