Cybersecurity
Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign
The personal information of D.C. voters may have been exposed in a data breach that officials learned of earlier this month, authorities said in an update. The D.C. Board of Elections said they learned on Friday that a breached server contained a copy of the board’s voter roll. The board said the owner of that […]
Oct 23, 2023NewsroomCyberattack / Malware The open-source remote access trojan known as Quasar RAT has been observed leveraging DLL side-loading to fly under the radar and stealthily siphon data from compromised Windows hosts. “This technique capitalizes on the inherent trust these files command within the Windows environment,” Uptycs researchers Tejaswini Sandapolla and Karthickkumar Kathiresan said […]
A recent report from WithSecure has highlighted a surge in DarkGate malware infection attempts, targeting its Managed Detection and Response customers, notably in the U.K, the U.S., and India. As further analysis was conducted, two critical insights emerged: a Vietnamese connection and an intricate web of interlinked malware campaigns. The Vietnamese Connection Multiple Vietnamese threat […]
The cyberattack caused outages in the company’s phone service, building connectivity, and online services, impacting customers’ ability to pay bills and file claims online.
Oct 23, 2023The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Cybersecurity With the record-setting growth of consumer-focused AI productivity tools like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence—formerly the realm of data science and engineering teams—has become a resource available to every employee. From a productivity perspective, that’s fantastic. Unfortunately for IT and security teams, it also means you may have hundreds […]
Over 80% of northern European organizations emphasize that the need to ensure business resilience is the top driver for their cybersecurity investments, according to Nixu. The report reveals both encouraging progress and increasing concerns. Alarmingly, 50% of organizations reach only a poor or deficient level in cybersecurity. “The prominence of business resilience as a driver […]
The attack involves the deployment of a trojanized version of the UTetris application, which acts as a loader for malware and facilitates the spread of the attack to potentially air-gapped systems.
Dive Brief: Worldwide IT spending is expected to surge to $5.1 trillion in 2024, growing 8% year over year, analyst firm Gartner projected in a Wednesday report. This marks the first time IT spending is expected to surpass $5 trillion. AI is already having an influence and is set to impact one area of IT […]
It is speculated that the threat actors behind the attacks may be deploying an update to hide their presence, or a grey-hat hacker could be rebooting the devices to clear the implant.