Cybersecurity

Only 9% of IT budgets are dedicated to security – Help Net Security

Despite their best efforts, 67% of businesses say they need to improve security and compliance measures with 24% rating their organization’s security and compliance strategy as reactive, according to Vanta. The expansion of attack surfaces in a post-pandemic hybrid world, combined with shrinking teams and budgets and the rapid rise of generative AI, are fueling […]

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8Base Group Found Deploying a New Phobos Ransomware Variant | Cyware Hacker News

The attackers behind 8Base ransomware have updated their arsenal with a new variant of the Phobos ransomware and other publicly available tools to conduct financially motivated attacks. The new finding comes from Cisco Talos researchers after a spike in 8Base ransomware activity was observed between May and June. A glance at the distribution process According […]

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Paranoid London collaborate with Bobby Gillespie, Jennifer Touch and more on LP number three | Juno Daily

Album will drop in February 2024 Paranoid London will release their third album, the fantastically titled Arseholes, Liars & Electronic Pioneers, in February 2024. The acid house duo have lined up an impressive list of collaborators for the album, including Bobby Gillespie, who sings on opening track ‘People (Ah Yeah)’, which has an uncanny resemblance […]

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Beware, Developers: BlazeStealer Malware Discovered in Python Packages on PyPI

Nov 08, 2023NewsroomSupply Chain / Software Security A new set of malicious Python packages has slithered their way to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with the ultimate aim of stealing sensitive information from compromised developer systems. The packages masquerade as seemingly innocuous obfuscation tools, but harbor a piece of malware called BlazeStealer, Checkmarx said […]