Cybersecurity

Swedish signals intelligence agency to take over national cybersecurity center

After failing to achieve “expected results,” Sweden’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) is facing a range of reforms, including being brought under the control of the country’s cyber and signals intelligence agency. The failures were assessed as part of a government review, rather than in response to a single incident, but come amid a changing […]

Cybersecurity

The effects of law enforcement takedowns on the ransomware landscape – Help Net Security

While the results of law enforcement action against ransomware-as-a-service operators Alphv/BlackCat and LockBit are yet to be fully realized, the August 2023 disruption of the Qakbot botnet has had one notable effect: ransomware affiliates have switched to vulnerability exploitation as the primary method of delivering the malware. The switch is obvious to Symantec’s Threat Hunter […]

Cybersecurity

Beware: Malicious Google Ads Trick WinSCP Users into Installing Malware

Nov 17, 2023NewsroomMalvertising / Malware Threat actors are leveraging manipulated search results and bogus Google ads that trick users who are looking to download legitimate software such as WinSCP into installing malware instead. Cybersecurity company Securonix is tracking the ongoing activity under the name SEO#LURKER. “The malicious advertisement directs the user to a compromised WordPress […]