A nonprofit has launched the first open source platform aimed at delivering sophisticated anti-fraud capabilities to financial systems in Africa as well as parts of Asia and the Middle East. The Tazama open source project is real-time financial transaction monitoring software that can be deployed by digital financial services providers to detect and block fraudulent […]
GitHub push protection – a security feature aimed at preventing secrets such as API keys or tokens getting accidentally leaked online – is being switched on by default for all public repositories. “This means that when a supported secret is detected in any push to a public repository, you will have the option to remove […]
Perception Point’s team of researchers recently investigated a malware attack aimed to bypass threat detection engines. The sophisticated attack was caught by our advanced threat prevention platform; the payload was detected by our next-gen sandboxing technology. Read on to learn more. Distribution In this campaign, the attacker impersonates a financial services company and sends the […]
Ransomware and cyber extortion attacks aimed at organizations are not letting up. Occasionally, they even come in pairs. The often large and sometimes massive ransomware recovery costs companies incur when they decide not to meet the demands deter many other victims from taking that path. In the end, many organizations decide to pay to get […]
Recent research from Menlo Labs has uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign aimed at executives employed across industries, such as banking, insurance, property management, real estate, and manufacturing. The U.S.-based organizations have been the primary targets. Diving into details The phishing campaign began in July and abused an open redirection vulnerability on the job search platform […]