‘Sitting Ducks’ Attacks Create Hijacking Threat for Domain Name Owners – Dark Reading
Researchers say the attacks are easy to perform, difficult to contact, nearly unrecognizable, and “entirely preventable.” – Read More
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Black Basta Develops Custom Malware in Wake of Qakbot Takedown – Dark Reading
The prolific ransomware group has shifted away from phishing as the method of entry into corporate networks, and is now using initial access brokers as well as its own tools…
Attackers Hijack Facebook Pages, Promote Malicious AI Photo Editor – Dark Reading
A malvertising campaign uses phishing to steal legitimate account pages, with the endgame of delivering the Lumma stealer. – Read More
Will the public nature of ransom payments change CISO strategy over whether to pay? – CSO Online
Reports that a Fortune 50 company paid a $75 million ransom to the Dark Angels ransomware group back in March is raising questions about whether CISOs should revisit their ransomware…
Access Legal significantly strengthens product and innovation with key appointments and marks next phase of leadership – Legal Futures
Access Legal is excited to announce new appointments marking the tech provider’s investment in product and innovation. The post Access Legal significantly strengthens product and innovation with key appointments and…
Search Acumen responds to base rate cut from 5.25% to 5% – Legal Futures
In response to the Bank of England cutting the base rate from 5.25% to 5%, Andrew Lloyd, Managing Director at Search Acumen, comments: The post Search Acumen responds to base…
Over 1 Million Domains at Risk of ‘Sitting Ducks’ Domain Hijacking Technique – The Hacker News
Over a million domains are susceptible to takeover by malicious actors by means of what has been called a Sitting Ducks attack. The powerful attack vector, which exploits weaknesses in…
Charting Change in Legal Podcast, episode 28 – Listen Here! – Legal IT Insider
In this 28th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, editor and publisher of Legal IT Insider, discusses with leading legal analyst Ari Kaplan some of the latest large…
Hackers Distributing Malicious Python Packages via Popular Developer Q&A Platform – The Hacker News
In yet another sign that threat actors are always looking out for new ways to trick users into downloading malware, it has come to light that the question-and-answer (Q&A) platform…
New Android Banking Trojan BingoMod Steals Money, Wipes Devices – The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new Android remote access trojan (RAT) called BingoMod that not only performs fraudulent money transfers from the compromised devices but also wipes them in an…
Over 300 Indian banks suffer payment disruption from ransomware attack – CSO Online
C-Edge Technologies — a State Bank of India (SBI) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) joint venture — has suffered a ransomware attack, disrupting payment systems in nearly 300 small banks…
Obfuscation: There Are Two Sides To Everything – The Hacker News
How to detect and prevent attackers from using these various techniques Obfuscation is an important technique for protecting software that also carries risks, especially when used by malware authors. In…
White & Case raises NQ pay to £175k – Legal Cheek
17% increase for newly qualified solicitors in London Global mega firm White & Case has raised salaries for its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers in London from £150,000 to £175,000, as…
Google Chrome Adds App-Bound Encryption to Protect Cookies from Malware – The Hacker News
Google has announced that it’s adding a new layer of protection to its Chrome browser through what’s called app-bound encryption to prevent information-stealing malware from grabbing cookies on Windows systems.…
The law student’s guide to balancing a side job – Legal Cheek
Southampton Uni’s Maddy Nicholl shares her top tips Being a law student is hard; very few people would disagree with that statement. What can make it ten times harder is…