Nearly five months after security researchers warned of the Cactus ransomware group leveraging a set of three vulnerabilities in Qlik Sense data analytics and business intelligence (BI) platform, many organizations remain dangerously vulnerable to the threat. Qlik disclosed the vulnerabilities in August and September. The company’s August disclosure involved two bugs in multiple versions of […]
Mar 14, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Cyber Crime A 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail in Canada for his participation in the LockBit global ransomware operation. Mikhail Vasiliev, an Ontario resident, was originally arrested in November 2022 and charged by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) with “conspiring with others to […]
Internet security experts have detected and blocked nearly 13,000 fake investment platform domains across more than 7000 IPs in January 2024, a 25% increase from December 2023. The figure comes amid growing concerns over the escalating threat of online investment scams, which continue to prey on unsuspecting individuals worldwide. According to data from the Federal Trade […]
Nearly 30,000 Fidelity Investments Life Insurance customers’ personal and financial information, including bank account and routing numbers, may have been stolen after criminals breached Infosys’ IT systems.
Nearly 30,000 Fidelity Investments Life Insurance customers’ personal and financial information, including bank account and routing numbers, may have been stolen after criminals breached Infosys’ IT systems.
APIs now comprise nearly three-quarters (71%) of web traffic, posing a significant threat to corporate cybersecurity by expanding the cyber-attack surface, according to Imperva. The security company revealed the findings in its Imperva State of API Security Report, which was compiled from intelligence gathered by its products. It found that attacks on the business logic […]
Nearly two weeks after detecting a cyberattack on its systems, German battery manufacturer Varta AG still has not restarted production at its plants. In a statement on Thursday, the company said: “There is currently no reliable information on how long it will take to process and resolve the attack or on when production at all […]
Nearly half of businesses reported a growth in synthetic identity fraud, while biometric spoofs and counterfeit ID fraud attempts also increased, according to AuthenticID. Consumers and businesses alike are facing new challenges in today’s digital existence, from considering the ramifications of digital identity to grappling with the use and prevalence of new tools like generative […]
Nearly two million Brits may have had their identity stolen and used by fraudsters to open a financial account in 2023, according to FICO’s new Fraud, Identity and Digital Banking Report. The analytics firm found that 4.3% of respondents had their identity abused in this way, which would equate to 1.9 million people if extrapolated […]