Critical Zero-Day Discovered in Fancy Product Designer WordPress Plug-in
The plug-in under active attack has been installed on more than 17,000 websites, say researchers.A recently discovered critical file upload vulnerability is being actively exploited in Fancy Product Designer, a...
Microsoft Buys ReFirm Labs to Drive IoT Security Efforts
The acquisition will bring ReFirm's firmware analysis capabilities alongside Microsoft's Azure Defender for IoT to boost device security.Microsoft has confirmed its acquisition of ReFirm Labs as part of a...
FireEye Sells Products Business to Symphony Group for $1.2B
The transaction will include the FireEye brand name; the business that remains will be called Mandiant Solutions.FireEye announced today it will sell its products business, including the FireEye name,...
U.S. says ransomware attack on meatpacker JBS likely from Russia
Brazil’s JBS SA told the U.S. government that a ransomware attack on the company that disrupted meat production in North America and Australia originated from a criminal organization likely...
Banking Attacks Surge Along with Post-COVID Economy
FinTech fraud spikes 159 percent in Q1 2021 along with stimulus spending.
For many, COVID-19 has been a crushing catastrophe. But for bank scammers, it’s shaped up to be...
Podcast: The State of Ransomware
In this Threatpost podcast, Fortinet’s top researcher sketches out the ransom landscape, with takeaways from the DarkSide attack on Colonial Pipeline.
Last month, ransomware group DarkSide targeted operator Colonial Pipeline...
Researchers Uncover Hacking Operations Targeting Government Entities in South Korea
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A North Korean threat actor active since 2012 has been behind a new espionage campaign targeting high-profile government officials associated with its southern counterpart to install an...
