A recent Forbes article has alleged the Indian government for abusing private technology against China and Pakistan. Earlier this year, researchers at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky witnessed a cyberespionage campaign targeting Microsoft Windows PCs at government and telecom entities in China and Pakistan, the Forbes article read. The software used by the digital spies was…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Researchers Believe NEW Cooperative Targeted By BlackMatter Gang Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) , Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • September 20, 2021 (Source: NEW Cooperative’s Facebook Page) NEW Cooperative Inc., an Iowa-based farm services co-op, has reportedly been targeted by the BlackMatter ransomware gang, which is demanding a…
Over one million CSV/JSON files with personal information of event registrants using Microsoft Teams – including phone numbers and email addresses – have been exposed to potential cyber-criminals worldwide. Security company Clario Tech, in partnership with cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko, discovered the exposure within EventBuilder, a virtual events integration tool for Microsoft products. Details can…
The zero trust model is going mainstream, and for good reason. The rise in advanced attacks, plus IT trends that include the move to hybrid cloud and remote work, demand more exacting and granular defenses. Zero trust ensures verification and authorization for every device, every application and every user gaining access to every resource. This…
Cross-Chain Protocol pNetwork Offers Hacker ‘Clean’ $1.5 Million Bug Bounty Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • September 20, 2021 (Source: Executium via Unsplash) Stay tuned for updates on this developing story. See Also: Accelerate Incident Response Times with Automated Investigation In the latest security incident involving a decentralized finance protocol, cross-chain project pNetwork…
DENVER, Sept. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — TTEC Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC), one of the largest global CX (customer experience) technology and services innovators for end-to-end digital CX solutions, today resolved the cyber attack on its technology systems. TTEC became…
France on Friday recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in a ferocious row over the scrapping of a submarine contract, an unprecedented step that revealed the extent of French anger against its allies. President Emmanuel Macron recalled the envoys after Canberra ditched a deal to buy French submarines in favour of US…
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a companion feature released by Microsoft in 2016 to run a Linux image in a near-native environment on Windows, allowing administrators to use Linux command-line tools without using a virtual machine. This was a novel implementation, although immediately doubts about security in this development began to arise. While…
The Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional), supported by the Italian National Police (Polizia di Stato), Europol and Eurojust, dismantled an organised crime group linked to the Italian Mafia involved in online fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking and property crime. The suspects defrauded hundreds of victims through phishing attacks and other types of online fraud such…
Follow the latest updates on the Covid-19 pandemic here The Covid-19 pandemic, which shook financial markets and trigged economic chaos last year, has heightened the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing, fraud, cyber attacks, bribery and corruption across the financial system, according to the Central Bank of the UAE. The use of e-commerce services and virtual…
