60% of companies are ‘very’ to ‘extremely’ concerned about ransomware attacks, according to latest research from Hornetsecurity. Businesses acknowledge ransomware risk Hornetsecurity revealed that 92.5% businesses are aware of ransomware’s potential for negative impact. Still, just 54% of respondents said their leadership is ‘actively involved in conversations and decision-making’ around preventing such attacks. 39.7% said […]
The odds of a CISO encountering a major cyberattack are about as high as it can get with 9 in 10 CISOs reporting at least one disruptive attack during the last year, according to Splunk research released Tuesday. Almost half of the 350 security executives surveyed said their organizations were hit by multiple disruptive cyberattacks […]
More often than not, its our solemn duty on this site to keep you informed about the nature and tactics of dangerous, cunnning, and persistent cybercriminals. This is not one of those days. In fact, this is the oppposite of one of those days. This is about a passable spam email sent by a spammer […]
The victim shaming site operated by the Snatch ransomware group is leaking data about its true online location and internal operations, as well as the Internet addresses of its visitors, KrebsOnSecurity has found. The leaked data suggest that Snatch is one of several ransomware groups using paid ads on Google.com to trick people into installing […]
SINGAPORE: The police on Wednesday (Sep 20) issued an advisory about a new variant of Android malware scams, where scammers would initiate a factory reset on infected devices after the malware executes unauthorised transactions on the phone’s i-banking app. There have been more than 750 cases of victims downloading the malware into their phones in the […]
The London producer talks frankly about rebuilding his life after suffering a stroke First of all, where are you as you answer these questions? How is your day going? Been or heading off to anywhere exciting? I’m just chilling at home in Watford today. It’s pretty lowkey but I did go for a swim this […]
Organizations are optimistic about AI, but AI adoption requires attention to privacy and security, productivity, and training, according to GitLab. “The transformational opportunity with AI goes way beyond creating code,” said David DeSanto, CPO, GitLab. “According to the GitLab Global DevSecOps Report, only 25% of developers’ time is spent on code generation, but the data […]
Sep 13, 2023THNVulnerability / Data Security More details have emerged about a set of now-patched cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in the Microsoft Azure HDInsight open-source analytics service that could be weaponized by a threat actor to carry out malicious activities. “The identified vulnerabilities consisted of six stored XSS and two reflected XSS vulnerabilities, each of […]