For Gaming Companies, Cybersecurity Has Become a Major Value Proposition
The video game industry has been booming of late — and cybercriminals are drawn to it as an expanding threat surface, seeing players as a potentially less cautious group...
Slippery RansomExx Malware Moves to Rust, Evading VirusTotal
The APT group DefrayX appears to have launched a new version of its RansomExx malware, rewritten in the Rust programming language -- possibly to avoid detection by antivirus software.
According to...
10,000 BTC moves off crypto wallet linked to Mt. Gox hack
A crypto wallet belonging to the shutdown crypto exchange BTC-e has just moved 10,000 Bitcoin (BTC), currently worth over $165 million, to various exchanges, personal wallets, and other sources...
Microsoft: Popular IoT SDKs Leave Critical Infrastructure Wide Open to Cyberattack
Microsoft this week identified a gaping attack vector for disabling industrial control systems (ICS), which is unfortunately pervasive throughout critical infrastructure networks: the Boa Web server.The computing giant has identified vulnerabilities in the server as...
Hot Ticket: ‘Aurora’ Go-Based InfoStealer Finds Favor Among Cyber-Threat Actors
A growing number of cybercriminal groups are turning to an information stealer named Aurora, which is based on the Go open source programming language, to target data from browsers,...
Chinese VC loses $42M in crypto due to compromised mnemonic seed phrase
According to a new twitter post on Nov. 23, Bo Shen, general partner of the Vitalik Buterin-advised venture capital fund Fenbushi Capital, claime that $42 million worth of funds...
Ducktail Cyberattackers Add WhatsApp to Facebook Business Attack Chain
A financially motivated threat actor targeting individuals and organizations on Facebook's Ads and Business platform has resumed operations after a brief hiatus, with a new bag of tricks for...
Cybersecurity Pros Put Mastodon Flaws Under the Microscope
As Mastodon experiences explosive user growth as a replacement for Twitter, infosec experts are pointing out security holes in the social media network. From an anonymous server collecting user...
Enterprises Pay $1,200 Per Employee Annually to Fight Cyberattacks Against Cloud Collab Apps
Enterprises are spending nearly $1,200 a year per employee to address the risk that cloud-based workforce collaboration apps bring to their business. It's a well-known reality at this point that with...
DraftKings Account Takeovers Frame Sports-Betting Cybersecurity Dilemma
The popular online betting platform DraftKings has been targeted by credential-stuffing attacks — allowing cyberthieves to make off with around $300,000 in ill-gotten funds so far.One of its rivals,...
