Feds Warn of Ransomware Attacks Ahead of Labor Day
Threat actors recently have used long holiday weekends — when many staff are taking time off — as a prime opportunity to ambush organizations.
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Experts: WH Cybersecurity Summit Should Be Followed by Regulation, Enforcement
Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc. making major commitments to shore up nation’s cyber-defenses just won’t be enough, researchers say.
Read MoreUS Media, Retailers Targeted by New SparklingGoblin APT
The new APT uses an undocumented backdoor to infiltrate the education, retail and government sectors.
Read MorePegasus Spyware Uses iPhone Zero-Click iMessage Zero-Day
Cybersecurity watchdog CitizenLab saw the new zero-day FORCEDENTRY exploit successfully deployed against iOS versions 14.4 & 14.6, blowing past Apple’s new BlastDoor sandboxing feature to install spyware on the iPhones of Bahraini activists – even …
Read MoreWeb Censorship Systems Can Facilitate Massive DDoS Attacks
Systems are ripe for abuse by attackers who can abuse systems to launch DDoS attacks.
Read MorePostmortem on U.S. Census Hack Exposes Cybersecurity Failures
Government says cybersecurity failures were many within failed January hack of U.S. Census Bureau systems.
Read MoreRogue Marketplace AlphaBay Reboots
Illicit underground marketplace relaunches years after takedown.
Read MoreNSA Watchdog Will Review Tucker Carlson Spying Claims
Despite a lack of evidence, the National Security Agency will investigate whether the Fox host was illegally targeted.
Read MoreBlack Hat: Scaling Automated Disinformation for Misery and Profit
Researchers demonstrated the power deep neural networks enlisted to create a bot army with the firepower to shape public opinion and spark QAnon 2.0.
Read MoreBlack Hat: New CISA Head Woos Crowd With Public-Private Task Force
Day two Black Hat keynote by CISA Director Jen Easterly includes launch of private-public partnership with Amazon, Google and Microsoft to fight cybercrime.
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