The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, a South Korean organization, confirms it was recently hacked, apparently by a North Korean group that exploited a VPN vulnerability.
Fraudsters falsely claiming to be the now-shuttered DarkSide ransomware gang are targeting organizations in the food and energy sectors by sending hoax emails that attempt to extort ransoms from victims, the security firm Trend Micro reports. None of the victims has detected a data compromise so far.
It's been two years since Gartner first gave a name to Secure Access Service Edge. But it's quickly emerging as a popular architecture for digitally transformed enterprises. Elton Fontaine of Palo Alto Networks discusses SASE use cases for state and municipal government, as well as higher education.
It was one thing to secure employees in a central office; quite another to secure them at home. What happens now in the hybrid workforce? Mike Anderson of Netskope outlines the key cybersecurity recommendations from his 'Return to Work' playbook.
In the latest weekly update, a panel of Information Security Media Group editors discusses key topics, including NATO's new cyber defense policy, the outlook for congressional regulatory action to address the ransomware threat, and cybersecurity comments by U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin.
A Russian national has been convicted of aiding a botnet scheme that infected victims' devices with malicious Kelihos malware and ransomware, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
The daily peak of DDoS attack traffic increased 100% from January 2020 to May 2021, reaching 3 Tbps, with most of the high-bandwidth, high-intensity attacks originating from fewer than 50 hosting companies, Nokia Deepfield reports.
After U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed cybersecurity issues at their Wednesday summit meeting in Geneva, security experts and analysts began sizing up what the next steps might be following what some are calling a "transformational moment."
In a key move toward ensuring telecom companies only use technologies from trustworthy sources, the government of India has launched a Trusted Telecom Portal designed to evaluate and approve technologies and suppliers.
Malware hosting domain Cyberium has spread multiple Mirai variants, including one that targeted vulnerable Tenda routers as part of a botnet campaign, AT&T Alien Labs reports.
U.S. President Joe Biden issued a clear warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin at their Geneva summit Wednesday, saying that should Russia continue to launch cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, or hack software supply chains, then Moscow should expect to see retaliation.
Just before Wednesday's U.S.-Russia summit, at which cybercrime was high on the agenda, authorities in Ukraine announced they had busted six suspected members of the Clop ransomware operation. Security experts say these apparently were midlevel players, with Clop's main operators likely based in Russia.
The Microsoft 365 Defender research team says it has “disrupted a large-scale business email compromise infrastructure hosted in multiple web services.” It describes in a blog post how the BEC fraud scheme worked.
SolarMarker malware operators are using "SEO poisoning" techniques to deploy the remote access Trojan to steal sensitive information, Microsoft reports.
Apple has released patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities and a fix for another security issue, all of which affected devices running iOS version 12.5.3. It says the zero-day flaws are being exploited in the wild.
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