The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it is probing the "compromise" of its X - formerly known as Twitter - social media accounts after a hacker broadcast a fake post claiming the agency had approved spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which sent the value of bitcoin rocketing.
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The threat landscape is ever evolving. Modern threat actors constantly develop new tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) so it's crucial to stay up to date with the latest strategies for protecting your organization.
Security experts from Unit 42™ have unveiled the most commonly observed TTPs in ransomware and...
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As businesses of all sizes embrace digital transformation, remote work, and mobile devices, they become increasingly susceptible to cybersecurity threats. Reports of ransomware attacks and data breaches grow with each passing week.
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Approximately 50% of ransomware attacks and breaches fielded by the Unit 42™ Incident Response team result from a common culprit: attack surface exposures.
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Achieving consistency within cloud environments is relatively easy when dealing with a single cloud. But when you shift to a multicloud architecture, the challenge of maintaining consistent configurations grows exponentially.
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Fallout is mounting, and new developments are emerging in several high-profile health data hacks. Data breaches reported in recent weeks and months at a medical transcription vendor, a hospital chain and a law firm are affecting a growing list of clients and individuals - and triggering lawsuits.
Alex Zeltcer, CEO and co-founder at nSure.ai, believes more companies are using AI and gen AI to create synthetic data that will be used to identify fraudulent groups who target online shoppers and gamers. He also observes social engineering at scale, perpetrated by machines, to conduct fraud.
A federally funded health center that provides services to underserved communities in New York has been fined up to $450,000 and must invest $1.2 million in improving its data security, under a settlement with state regulators involving a 2021 ransomware attack that affected about 261,000 people.
The FBI arrested Conor Fitzgerald, the admitted administrator of the notorious, now-defunct BreachForums data breach forum and marketplace, for violating the conditions of his presentencing release, after he allegedly used VPN software and evaded mandatory monitoring of his computers.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has wrapped up its investigation of the xDedic dark web marketplace and successfully dismantled the multinational criminal organizations, leading to charges against 19 individuals, including administrators, developers and customer service reps.
Mimecast announced the acquisition of human risk management solutions specialist Elevate Security as part of its initiative to enhance digital workplace protection. The move aims to address evolving cyberthreats by offering insights into human behaviors and risks and empowering customers.
Iranian hackers targeted the Albanian Parliament using the No-Justice Wiper and other commonly used tools. Albania had severed diplomatic ties with Iran following a July cyberattack that disrupted the country's online governmental services portal.
Machine learning systems are vulnerable to cyberattacks that could allow hackers to evade security and prompt data leaks, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology warned. There is "no foolproof defense" against some of these attacks, researchers said.
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