You spend your days getting ready to stop threat actors. But even as you wonder, attackers could already be ‘casing the joint’. Before any well-organized attack, skillful or professional attackers…
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Nation State Threat Group Targets Airline with Aclip Backdoor
In March 2021, IBM Security X-Force observed an attack on an Asian airline that we assess was likely compromised by a state-sponsored adversary using a new backdoor that utilizes Slack.…
How Shopping Bots Can Compromise Retail Cybersecurity
Online shopping bots are not new to the e-commerce world. Stores use bots to offer better customer service, but malicious bots can cause major harm to a business. These pose…
Has Necurs Fallen From (Cybercrime) Grace? Elite Malware Botnet Now Distributes Clunky Scams
As you read these lines, millions of infected devices across the globe are distributing spam for a botnet known as “Necurs.” IBM X-Force research monitors billions of spam messages a…
How to Tell Safe Advertisements From Dangerous Malvertising
Advertising is the life blood of the internet. Some of the world’s biggest and most influential tech companies earn a large chunk of their revenue through harmless and safe advertisements,…
IT pros: we’re understaffed, under-resourced and under pressure
Increasingly complex attacks coupled with a shortage in skills and budget are worrying IT managers across the globe. This post appeared first on Naked Security Blog by Sophos Author: Danny…
What Happens When Malware Sneaks Into Reputable Hardware, Applications and App Stores?
To avoid malware, you should always get hardware and software from official, authorized and reputable sources and vendors, right? But what happens when those same sources actually contain or deliver…
Unclosable browser popup! 13-year-old charged for sharing code
She didn’t create it, but she allegedly shared it. That’s enough to get in trouble in Japan, with its history of being tough on cyber crime. This post appeared first…
What Can Consumers and IT Decision-Makers Do About the Threat of Malvertising?
If you haven’t already heard of malvertising, it’s one of the latest portmanteaus you’ll hear more about in 2019. Malvertising, or malicious advertising, is a type of online attack in…
How to Defend Against Malvertising Drive-By Attacks
Many longtime internet users will remember receiving pop-up ads warning that their computers were infected with a virus. In nearly all cases, the ad’s specific claims were bogus; the purpose…