Cybercriminals See Bountiful Harvest in Food Supply Chain
The US Department of Justice put the food and agriculture sector on notice that companies need to beef up cybersecurity or risk attacks that could hobble their business and...
Microsoft Windows Zero-Day Under Attack
Microsoft has issued an advisory containing mitigations and workarounds for a remote code execution flaw in Windows it says is being exploited in targeted attacks.
CVE-2021-40444 exists in MSHTML, the...
Ragnar Locker Threatens to Leak Data if Victims Contact Authorities
In a new twist on dirty tactics from ransomware gangs, media reports claim the Ragnar Locker ransomware group is threatening to leak victims' stolen data if they contact law enforcement...
New Malware Uses Novel Fileless Technique to Evade Detection
Researchers recently uncovered a new memory-resident malware family and installer that they say employ a unique and stealthy approach to hide from threat detection tools.
FireEye's Mandiant advanced practices team...
Faced with COVID Challenges, Enterprises Increase Security Spending
The security impact of workplace disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has ncreased spending on risk mitigation in organizations worldwide: a recent survey
of security leaders by Dark Reading and Omdia...
Translated Ransomware Playbook Gives Rare Insight into Gang’s Operation
A leak of a purported tutorial from the Conti ransomware gang for turning compromised machines into ransomware beachheads provides a rare look inside the operations of a popular cybercriminal syndicate...
Researchers Reveal Details on Now-Patched WhatsApp Vulnerability
WhatsApp earlier this year patched a vulnerability that researchers say could have allowed an attacker to read sensitive information from the popular messaging app's memory.
Check Point Research (CPR) recently discovered what it...
‘ProxyToken’ Flaw Heightens Concerns Over Security of Microsoft Exchange Server
A new Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability disclosed this week by security researchers from Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has exacerbated concerns about the technology's vulnerability to a range of...
DDoS Attacks Hitting Victims in High-Bandwidth ‘Bursts’
The number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks grew fourfold in the first half of 2021, with attack volume doubling, new data shows.
Security firm Imperva culled the intelligence from nearly 5,600...
CISA and FBI: Be ‘Vigilant’ About Possible Ransomware Attacks Over Labor Day Weekend
By now, most organizations are well aware that cybercriminals and nation-state hackers up their game over the holidays rather than take a break. That trend spiked this year as...
