Cybersecurity

AI’s efficacy is constrained in cybersecurity, but limitless in cybercrime – Help Net Security

Bringing artificial intelligence into the cybersecurity field has created a vicious cycle. Cyber professionals now employ AI to enhance their tools and boost their detection and protection capabilities, but cybercriminals are also harnessing AI for their attacks. Security teams then use more AI in response to the AI-driven threats, and threat actors augment their AI […]

Cybersecurity

Targeted F5 Vulnerability ‘Update’ Delivers Wiper to Israeli Victims

Israel’s National Cyber Directorate (NCD) has issued an “urgent warning” about a targeted email campaign impersonating F5 Networks that delivers a dangerous wiper malware. The lure for the attack is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in F5’s BIG-IP, disclosed in late October. At the time, F5 said one way to resolve the vulnerability was to download and […]

Cybersecurity

EMBA: Open-source security analyzer for embedded devices – Help Net Security

The EMBA open-source security analyzer is tailored as the central firmware analysis tool for penetration testers and product security groups. It assists throughout the security evaluation procedure, extracting firmware, conducting static and dynamic analysis through emulation, and creating a web-based report. EMBA features EMBA identifies potential vulnerabilities and weak points in firmware, such as insecure […]

Cybersecurity

New JavaScript Malware Targeted 50,000+ Users at Dozens of Banks Worldwide

A new piece of JavaScript malware has been observed attempting to steal users’ online banking account credentials as part of a campaign that has targeted more than 40 financial institutions across the world. The activity cluster, which employs JavaScript web injections, is estimated to have led to at least 50,000 infected user sessions spanning North […]

Cybersecurity

Data leak exposes users of car-sharing service Blink Mobility

Data leak exposes users of car-sharing service Blink Mobility Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2023 More than 22,000 users of Blink Mobility should take the necessary steps to protect themselves against the risk of identity theft. The Cybernews research team has discovered that their personal data was exposed in a leak. Los Angeles-based electric car-sharing provider […]

Data Center

What is a disaster recovery team? | Definition from TechTarget

By What is a disaster recovery team? A disaster recovery team is a group of individuals focused on planning, implementing, maintaining, auditing and testing an organization’s business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Disaster recovery (DR) is an area of security planning focused on enabling an organization to maintain or rapidly resume mission-critical functions following a […]

Cybersecurity

Data Leak Exposes 1.5 Billion Real Estate Records, Including Elon Musk, Kylie Jenner

From Elon Musk and Kylie Jenner to Britney Spears, Donald J. Trump, and Floyd Mayweather, real estate records of top celebrities and common homeowners were exposed online without any security authentication or password. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered and alerted VPNMentor to an unprotected database associated with the New York-based online platform Real Estate Wealth […]