Ten years on there is no sign that ransomware attacks are letting up. In fact, cybersecurity firm Sophos recently published a “playbook” titled “How Ransomware Attacks” to help organizations mitigate these attacks […]
Kaspersky data from January to September 2019 show the Philippines placed third among Southeast Asian (SEA) countries with the highest Android mobile malware attempts detected and blocked by the cybersecurity company. The […]
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky reveals in its “APT Trends Reports Q3 2019” that Korean-speaking actors who are part of different hacking groups are spreading threats in the Korean Peninsula and the Southeast Asian […]
News of attacks on the healthcare industry are not as sexy as news of attacks, say on a nation’s defense department or on the largest bank in the world. This could change […]
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McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, recently released its McAfee Labs Threats Report for August 2019 examining cybercriminal activity and the evolution of cyber threats in the first quarter (Q1) of 2019. McAfee […]
Cloud Atlas, an advanced persistent threat (APT), also known as Inception, has updated its attack arsenal with new tools which allow it to avoid detection through standard Indicators of Compromise. This updated […]
Check Point Research, the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a cybersecurity solutions provider which operates globally, has published its latest Global Threat Index for July 2019. The Research […]
Baldr malware has gone missing in June after cybercriminals after an internal rift. Sophos, a network and endpoint security firm, expects it to make a comeback anytime soon guessing that it may […]
Check Point Research, the threat intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., has published its latest Global Threat Index for April 2019. The banking trojan Trickbot has returned to the Index’s […]
In the 24th edition of its Security Intelligence Report (SIR), an annual study aimed to improve cyber resilience in the region, Microsoft said malware remains a huge cyberthreat in the Asia-Pacific not […]
Security firm Sophos said it was able to track 96 samples from malware that has been operating since 2016 and comes from the Matrix ransomware family. The ransomware is infecting computers using […]
Experts at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab (Kaspersky) revealed that two threat actors who, apparently speak Russian, used the same servers at the same time. GreyEnergy, which according to Kaspersky is believed to […]
A number of US-based newspapers reported suspected cyberattacks that affected their printing and distribution. In a report by CNN, it said that according to the Los Angeles Times the cyberattack “appears to […]
Cybersecurity company Symantec Corp. introduced recently its Industrial Control System Protection (ICSP) Neural, the industry’s first neural network-integrated USB scanning station that helps organizations protect critical infrastructure by preventing the devastating physical […]
By Symantec Attack Investigations Team On Oct. 2, 2018, an alert was issued by US-CERT, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Treasury, and the FBI. According to this new […]
Image from Pixabay In the McAfee Threats Report for September 2018, security researchers highlight the surge of crypto mining malware that started last year and continued in the first half of this […]
Image from Pixabay According to the Kaspersky Lab IoT report, in the first half of 2018, IoT devices were attacked with more than 120,000 modifications of malware. That’s more than triple the […]
(Image from ABS-CBN PR website) Technology news website ZDNet reported on a possible data breach affecting customers of ABS-CBN online store. ZDNet quoted Dutch security researcher Willem “gwillem” de Groot that a […]
(Image by Pete Linforth/Pixabay) The average DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack quintupled in size to more than 26 Gbps and the maximum attack size quadrupled to 359 Gbps compared to the […]
(Image from Pixabay) The Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has discovered several infections from a previously unknown Trojan, which is most likely related to the infamous Chinese-speaking threat actor […]
(Image from Pixabay) Cybersecurity and defense company Trend Micro discovered recently a spam campaign that targets emails that are connected with banks. The malware downloader is disguised as a file extension most […]
(Image by Darwin Laganzon/Pixabay) In its Midyear Security Roundup 2018, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro finds out that cybercriminals now prefer to work stealthily for a more lucrative loot and malware are continuously […]
(Image by Gerald Altmann/Pixabay) Kaspersky Lab researchers have published a report on botnet activity in the first half of 2018, analyzing more than 150 malware families and their modifications circulating through 600,000 […]
(Image from Pixabay) A security researcher MalwareHunterTeam discovered a new variant of Matrix Ransomware that can rename encrypted files, according to the report by BleepingComputer. Computers running Remote Desktop Services (RDP) and […]
