Google’s Heather Adkins on infostealers, two-factor authentication and fixing the security ‘mess’ for future...
Heather Adkins, the vice president of security engineering at Google, has spent more than two decades at the company. As head of its Office of Cybersecurity Resilience, she...
Sweden, Finland partner to take down Sipulitie criminal marketplace
An online haven for the sale of narcotics and other criminal goods in Scandinavia was shut down and had its servers seized by law enforcement agencies in Sweden...
Critical Veeam Vulnerability Exploited to Spread Akira and Fog Ransomware
Oct 14, 2024Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Vulnerability
Threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a now-patched security flaw in Veeam Backup & Replication to deploy Akira and Fog ransomware.
Cybersecurity vendor Sophos...
Iran-linked hackers increasingly spy on governments in Gulf region, researchers say
An Iran-linked cyberespionage group has stepped up its attacks in recent months against government agencies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the broader Gulf region, according to...
Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users
The Tor anonymity network issued an emergency patch last week to address a recently-discovered security flaw that was being exploited against its users. The bug, tracked as...
Pokémon video game developer confirms its systems were breached by hackers
Japanese video game developer Game Freak confirmed last week that it suffered a cyberattack earlier this year, resulting in a data leak. The statement from the Tokyo-based...
Cyber insurer says ransomware attacks drove a spike in claim sizes
A report published Thursday by cyber insurance provider Coalition found that although its customers made fewer claims in the first half of 2024 than the same period a...
NATO moves ‘most experienced and expert individual’ on cyber out of cyber section
Christian-Marc Lifländer, the widely admired Estonian who had been helping develop NATO’s cyber policy over the past decade, has been rotated out of his post as the head...
AT&T, Verizon, Lumen executives hear from lawmakers about reported China hacks
A congressional committee on Friday called on the chief executives of three major telecom companies reportedly breached by Chinese hackers to provide more details, and brief lawmakers, about...
New law in Australia will require mandatory reporting of ransomware payments
Australia is set to become the world’s first country to require companies to report to the government any ransomware payments they make as part of a “landmark” new...
