A wide-ranging international operation by law enforcement agencies in 30 countries aiming to prosecute online fraudsters has resulted in nearly a thousand arrests and...

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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...

Artificial intelligence has led to some major changes in the nature of business. Companies around the world spent over $328.34 billion on AI last year and this figure is growing at a rapid rate. It is projected to be worth nearly $1.4 trillion by 2029. Many companies have started using AI technology to streamline and […]

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The increased proliferation of IoT devices paved the way for the rise of IoT botnets that amplifies DDoS attacks today. This is a dangerous warning that the possibility of a sophisticated DDoS attack and a prolonged service outage will prevent businesses from growing.

There’s a good chance you’ve mined crypto at least once in your life. And no, I’m not talking about those big mining rigs people set up...

As cybersecurity strategies continuously evolve to keep pace with attackers, the relevance of the traditional model is in need of an automation upgrade.

We’re barely into 2022, and already we’re seeing ransomware proliferate. What we saw last year is that while most attacks continue to exploit known vulnerabilities, cybercriminals have also redoubled efforts to target new ones – such as what we saw with Hafnium and new Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities.

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AI-powered engine brings predictive intelligence to Quad9 protective DNS to deliver unprecedented early identification of threats.

(PRWeb February 16, 2022)

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A new version of the MyloBot malware has been observed to deploy malicious payloads that are being used to send sextortion emails demanding victims to pay $2,732 in digital currency. MyloBot, first detected in 2018, is known to feature an array of sophisticated anti-debugging capabilities and propagation techniques to rope infected machines into a botnet, not to mention remove traces of other

Two different Android banking Trojans, FluBot and Medusa, are relying on the same delivery vehicle as part of a simultaneous attack campaign, according to new research published by ThreatFabric. The ongoing side-by-side infections, facilitated through the same smishing (SMS phishing) infrastructure, involved the overlapping usage of "app names, package names, and similar icons," the Dutch mobile

Malicious actors are using the npm registry as the start point for open source software (OSS) supply chain attacks.

Open source software offers huge potential for criminals and nation states to deliver widespread supply chain attacks. OSS registries provide a major feeding ground with easy access.

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