DMARC: The First Line of Defense Against Ransomware

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Nations Agree to Collaborate on Information Sharing, Training Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • August 23, 2021     U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is in Asia this week. (Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr) The U.S. and Singapore have announced three agreements to expand…

Facebook finally identifies the Chinese hackers that are targeting Uyghurs in the United States. The giant tech firm confirmed that these cybercriminals are secretly spying on the Uyghurs who are living abroad in Kazakhstan, Turkey, the U.S., and other countries. (Photo : Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)A participant sits with a laptop computer as he…

Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security ‘The Most Widely Successful Wormable Malware Becomes Almost a Permanent Hangover’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • March 9, 2021     WannaCry’s ransom note Where were you on May 12, 2017? For many cybersecurity professionals, the answer is “trying to contain the fallout from WannaCry,”…

Owners of Gigaset Android phones have been repeatedly infected with malware since the end of March after threat actors compromised the vendor’s update server in a supply-chain attack. Gigaset is a German manufacturer of telecommunications devices, including a series of smartphones running the Android operating system. Starting around March 27th, users suddenly found their Gigaset…

Microsoft says everyone can remove the password from their Microsoft account and use other methods to sign in starting today. The company rolled out the option to enterprise users earlier this year, and it plans to remove passwords from enterprise accounts completely. Rather than having to remember a password or using a password manager, you’ll…

The hacking group behind the recent cyber-attack targeting Accellion’s FTA file transfer service appears to be linked to a threat actor known as FIN11, security researchers with FireEye’s Mandiant division reveal. The attacks on FTA, a soon-to-be-retired service, started in mid-December 2020 and resulted in the compromise of data pertaining to multiple Accellion customers. As…