The settlement last week in a $100 million lawsuit over whether insurance giant Zurich should cover losses Mondelez International suffered from NotPetya may very well reshape the entire cyber insurance marketplace.
Zurich initially denied claims from Mondelez after the malware, which experts estimate caused some $10 billion in damages globally, wreaked havoc on its computer networks. The insurance provider claimed an act of war exemption since it’s widely believed Russian military hackers unleashed NotPetya on a Ukrainian company before it spread around the world.
In a quiet alcove of the opulent Leela Palace hotel in Delhi, two British corporate investigators were listening intently to a young Indian entrepreneur as he made a series of extraordinary confessions.
The 28-year-old computer specialist Tej Singh Rathore described his role as a player in a burgeoning criminal industry stealing secrets from people around the world. He had hacked more than 500 email accounts, mostly on behalf of his corporate intelligence clients.
A cybercriminal group has compromised a media content provider to deploy malware on the websites of hundreds of news outlets in the U.S. according to cybersecurity company Proofpoint.
True or false? Apple supports macOS for three years. Apple’s security updates are sufficient. New versions of macOS are full of bugs. It’s safer to delay upgrading.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Department for Education (DfE) following the prolonged misuse of the personal information of up to 28 million children.
An ICO investigation found that the DfE’s poor due diligence meant a database of pupils’ learning records was ultimately used by Trust Systems Software UK Ltd (trading as Trustopia), an employment screening firm, to check whether people opening online gambling accounts were 18.
Critics who threatened to expose wrongdoing by Qatar were targeting as part of huge hacking operation
Apple's practices regarding security updates are frustrating and perplexing, and may endanger users.
Microsoft tied hackers with the Vice Society ransomware gang to several ransomware strains on Tuesday, noting that the group has been behind a wave of attacks on primary schools and colleges across the world.
Recently, we identified a new BEC group leveraging blind third-party impersonation tactics to swindle companies around the world. The group, which we call Crimson Kingsnake, impersonates real attorneys, law firms, and debt recovery services to deceive accounting professionals into quickly paying bogus invoices.
Over the last ten years, we have seen the industrialization of the content management space. A decade ago, it felt like every individual and business had a dynamic WordPress blog, loaded up with a hundred plugins to do everything from add widgets to improve performance. Over time, we realised this was a bad idea, as ensuring the security of third-party plugins seemed increasingly impossible.
Black Basta operational TTPs are described here in full detail, revealing previously unknown tools and techniques and a link to FIN7.
A family of malicious apps from developer Mobile apps Group are listed on Google Play and infected with Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.BTGTHB. In total, four apps are listed, and together they have amassed at least one million downloads.
Older versions of these apps have been detected in the past as different variants of Android/Trojan.HiddenAds. Yet, the developer is still on Google Play dispensing its latest HiddenAds malware.
A report shows four Bluetooth-centered apps by the same developer have been downloaded 1 million times combined while containing malicious code.
The Splunk SURGe team shares an outline of their interpretation of the CVE-2022-3602 vulnerability and what you can do to detect it in your environment.
Last week, our automated risk detection platform alerted us to suspicious activity in dozens of newly published PyPI packages. Here's what we uncovered.
A new and destructive 'Azov Ransomware' data wiper is being heavily distributed through pirated software, key generators, and adware bundles, trying to frame well-known security researchers by claiming they are behind the attack.
The offensive macOS cyber capabilities of the WINDSHIFT APT group provide us with the opportunity to gain insight into the Apple-specific approaches employed by an advanced adversary.
In this talk we’ll comprehensively dissect OSX.WindTape, a second-stage tool utilized by the WINDSHIFT APT group when targeting Apple systems.
First we’ll discuss the malware’s anti-analysis mechanisms, and then once these have been thwarted, we’ll explore its capabilities. To conclude, we’ll present heuristic methods that can generically both detect and prevent WindTape, as well as other advanced macOS threats.
We were recently the target of a phishing campaign that successfully accessed some of the code we store in GitHub. No one’s content, passwords, or payment information was accessed, and the issue was quickly resolved. Our core apps and infrastructure were also unaffected, as access to this code is even more limited and strictly controlled. We believe the risk to customers is minimal. Because we take our commitment to security, privacy, and transparency seriously, we have notified those affected and are sharing more here.
Understanding banking Trojan techniques can help detect other activities of financially motivated threat groups.
