Roger Grimes of KnowBe4 maintains that antivirus and firewalls are worthless, noting that after 30 years the industry faces more threats than ever. Grimes believes that most people pay attention to firewall logs when they first enter the security field, but after the first few years they become background noise.
The tactics seek out highly sensitive data as leverage, targeting small businesses whose efforts to be tax-compliant could be seriously disrupted.
A new Grelos skimmer variant tied to Magecart Group could potentially lure online shoppers to fill out phony payment forms over the upcoming holidays. A unique cookie could allow attackers to connect to a recent variant of the Grelos skimmer then to an even newer version that uses a fake form to steal payment data…
The tactic, used in a recent incident involving Italian liquor company Campari, attempts to counter a company’s own efforts at damage control.
Shadow IT, malicious email attachments, bad hygiene and other “low hanging fruit” continue to plague many businesses, according to incident response data from Red Canary.
Much like hospitals and government, video game developers can’t afford to go dark, nor can they easily overcome exposure of their secret sauce. That makes them an attractive target.
Kaspersky researchers noticed similarities in the code of the Trojan, the text of the ransom notes and the general approach to extortion that pointed to an encounter with a Linux strain of the RansomEXX ransomware family.
The company said in a recent quarterly filing that it had contained the attack and although some business functions were temporarily impacted, the security team restored its operations.
The health care cybersecurity consulting firm has been working especially closely with hospitals in the last week to help them quickly respond to this new wave of attacks. CEO Caleb Barlow details the implications.
In a bizarre open letter, the group claims it will cease operations and that its work was only meant to highlight the cybersecurity failures of the companies we rely upon.
