An actively exploited security bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is being exploited in a new stealer campaign to download malicious executables on the victim’s system. Tracked as CVE-2024-21412, the…
CrowdStrike has blamed a hole in its testing software for the release of a defective content update that hobbled millions of Windows computers worldwide on Friday, July 19. The hole…
Hackers have breached the systems of Leidos Holdings, a major contractor for the US government, and leaked stolen internal documents online, Bloomberg News reported. The leak is believed to be…
The most unsafe part of our technology ecosystem isn’t the number of unpatched systems we have. Nor is it shadow IT, whether it’s homegrown software or the burgeoning bring-your-own-SaaS ecosystem.…
The finance sector has been among cybercriminals’ favourite targets. Nearly one-fifth of all recent cyberattacks were aimed at financial firms, with banks being the most vulnerable of all, according to…
A new flaw in virtual private networks (VPNs) was reported last week at a security conference. The flaw, discovered by a collection of academic and industry researchers, has to do…
Security researchers warn about a new malware threat designed to interact with industrial control systems (ICS) over the Modbus protocol. The malicious program was used in January in a cyberattack…
Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike initiated a series of computer system outages across the world on Friday, July 19, disrupting nearly every industry and sowing chaos at airports, financial institutions, and healthcare…
As a major update to Chrome’s new cross-site tracking protection policy, Google announced that it is no longer considering dropping support for third-party cookies. Third-party cookies, which refer to the…
In a surprising turn of events, Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz has decided to end its acquisition talks with Google-parent Alphabet, which would have resulted in a $23 billion deal, the…
Non-human identities (NHIs) have been a staple of enterprise IT for decades. Giving digital components credentials to access IT networks and devices, as IT would a human user, is key…
Researchers have linked a previously unattributed Mac backdoor and a new Windows Trojan to a Chinese APT group known as Daggerfly that has been around for over a decade and…
Whether you’ve survived the CrowdStrike incident or didn’t use CrowdStrike and are merely seeing the impact to others, taking time to learn lessons from this event is vital. After all,…
It’s no secret that the cybersecurity platform conversation is top of mind for many right now. Yet a platform approach to cybersecurity has existed for decades, and there’s long been…
Approximately 12.9 million Australians using the MediSecure prescription delivery service suffered a loss of personal information from an April ransomware attack, MediSecure said in a statement. The electronic prescription provider…