Even small farmers are not immune to cyberattacks. Vital Bircher, a farmer in Hagendorn, Switzerland, between Zurich and Lucerne, recently experienced an attack on his computer systems, which were also…
An increasing number of advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are leveraging cloud-based storage services offered by Microsoft and Google for command and control (C2) and data exfiltration, according to research…
In a significant shift in the security landscape, CrowdStrike appears to be aligning with Microsoft’s demand to reconsider kernel-level access for security vendors after CrowdStrike’s Falcon update sent Windows servers…
Our insiders need to be better educated in the art of protecting data — and by extension their own livelihoods. Everyone knows about risks from outside an organization, that’s the…
Longtime security chief Pamela Fusco wanted to more clearly quantify the business value that her cybersecurity program provided to her former employer, a pharmaceutical company. So, she came up with…
In May 2024, the news broke that Ascension, a St. Louis-based nonprofit healthcare system, had been hit by a ransomware attack that interrupted access to electronic records, disrupted use of…
The threat landscape moves fast. As new attack methods and social engineering techniques appear, organizations need to maintain security awareness programs that are relevant, agile and focused. Research from Proofpoint…
Background Last year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received more than 330,000 reports of business impersonation scams and nearly 160,000 reports of government impersonation scams. This represents about half of…
What happened Proofpoint recently identified a cluster of activity conducting malicious email campaigns using piano-themed messages to lure people into advance fee fraud (AFF) scams. The campaigns have occurred since…
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT have extensive business value. They can write content, clean up context, mimic writing styles and tone, and more. But what if bad actors…
The most damaging cyber threats today don’t target machines or systems—they target humans. Today, 74% of data breaches rely on exploiting the human element. From employees clicking on malicious links…
When you hear the term “spoofed” email, does business email compromise (BEC) come to mind? It does for many people—especially security leaders. BEC is a form of email fraud, and…
Hacker Summer Camp opens in Las Vegas this week with talks on cloud security, supply chain threats, and artificial intelligence at the fore of presentations at BSides LV, Black Hat…
API security provider Cequence has added new large language model (LLM) threat detection and management capabilities along with some fresh integrations for API discovery on its Unified API protection (UAP)…
Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike has been caught in a torrent of bad news since an errant content configuration update on July 19 sparked a massive IT outage that affected thousands of…