According to a Wall Street Journal report, TikTok used a banned tactic to bypass the privacy safeguard in Android to harvest unique identifiers from millions of mobile devices. [Read More]
The Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux hits GA milestone and now provides endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities to all users. [Read More]
CrowdStrike shares an analysis of Sunspot, a piece of malware that was used by hackers to insert the Sunburst backdoor into SolarWinds’ Orion product in the recent supply chain attack. [Read More]
Bitdefender has released a free decryptor for DarkSide, a piece of ransomware that allegedly helped cybercriminals make millions from targeted companies. [Read More]
A study found that over 98 percent of malware making it to the sandbox array uses at least one evasive tactic, and 32 percent of malware samples making it to this stage could be classified as “hyper-evasive".
The cost of electricity has led some to take shortcuts in the search for power sources - individuals and organizations are now being breached by cyber-criminals seeking to take advantage of corporate infrastructures.
It remains to be seen whether more legitimate web operations will embrace the approach, but you can count on illegitimate and malicious use of cryptomining to grow robustly.
Take a step back and realize that cryptocurrency mining is really just another form of malware, which is something you should be good at finding already.
There are several mitigation measures and best practices that you can adopt to improve your organization’s security posture and reduce the risk of supply chain infections.
In the cat-and-mouse game between security providers and malware authors, cybercriminals keep innovating and experimenting – a dynamic seen in the recent resurgence of the Locky ransomware.
While devastating to the victims, the recent rash of ransomware has been helpful in putting an objective and quantifiable face on modern threats associated in cybersecurity.
The early indicators of the WannaCry attack were evident, but it spread too quickly for human security teams to react before it spread across the world like wildfire.