More Than 60% of Organizations Suffered a Breach in the Past 12 Months
The majority of companies — 63% — have suffered at least one breach in the past 12 months. The global average breach cost $2.4 million — a price tag...
Rare ‘CosmicStrand’ UEFI Rootkit Swings into Cybercrime Orbit
A Windows firmware rootkit known as "CosmicStrand" has appeared in the cyberthreat firmament, targeting the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to achieve stealth and persistence.
UEFI firmware is tasked with...
Mac Malware-Dropping Adware Gets More Dangerous
The latest version of a Mac Trojan called UpdateAgent, aka WizardUpdate, provides fresh evidence of the growing effort that some threat actors are putting into targeting Apple technologies.The malware,...
Bumblebee Malware Buzzes Into Cyberattack Fray
At least three separate waves of cyberattacks are underway that feature a sophisticated new malware loader dubbed Bumblebee that fetches shell code and second-stage tools, such as Cobalt Strike, Sliver, and...
Disinformation Attacks Threaten US Midterm Elections
While traditional cyberattack operations against US government organizations have remained fairly consistent, influence and disinformation attacks by foreign nations have increased in the run-up to the US midterm elections.
On the...
Spoofing attacks to soar as COVID wrecks supply lines
Threat actors will take advantage of shipping delays and disruption to supply lines caused by COVID-19 to increase spoofing attacks, rendering more businesses vulnerable to cyber scams well into...
Why We Need To Reframe the False-Positive Problem
The concept of false positives has been pushed and pulled around for years in the cybersecurity industry. Countless vendor-sponsored studies reinforce the idea that false positives are directly contributing...
Angry tweeters ditch Musk for Mastodon
An obscure open-source social media outlet is enjoying another popularity surge, as users concerned by Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover desert the high-profile platform, it has announced.
Mastodon saw its new...
