Android could soon protect you from malicious apps by quarantining them

Quarantining an Android app will hide its screens and notifications, prevent it from ringing your device, and make sure its services can’t be called by other apps.

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Kaspersky Study: Devices Infected With Data-Stealing Malware Increased by 7 Times Since 2020

Nearly 10 million devices were infected with data-stealing malware in 2023, with criminals stealing an average of 50.9 credentials per device.

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Global Police Operation Disrupts ‘LabHost’ Phishing Service, Over 30 Arrested Worldwide

As many as 37 individuals have been arrested as part of an international crackdown on a cybercrime service called LabHost that has been used by criminal actors to steal personal credentials from victims around the world.

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US Government and OpenSSF Partner on New SBOM Management Tool

Protobom, the new open source software tool, will help all organizations read and generate SBOMs and file data, as well as translate this data across standard industry SBOM formats.

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SAP Applications Increasingly in Attacker Crosshairs, Report Shows

Malicious hackers are targeting SAP applications at an alarming pace, according to warnings from Onapsis and Flashpoint.

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United Nations Agency Investigating Ransomware Attack Involving Data Theft

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) investigating a ransomware attack in which hackers stole sensitive data.

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OfflRouter Malware Evades Detection in Ukraine for Almost a Decade

Select Ukrainian government networks have remained infected with a malware called OfflRouter since 2015.
Cisco Talos said its findings are based on an analysis of over 100 confidential documents that were infected with the VBA macro virus and uploaded to the VirusTotal malware scanning platform.
“The documents contained VBA code to drop and run an executable with the name ‘ctrlpanel.exe,'”

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FIN7 Targets American Automaker’s IT Staff in Phishing Attacks

The financially motivated threat actor FIN7 targeted a large U.S. car maker with spear-phishing emails for employees in the IT department to infect systems with the Anunak backdoor.

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IT and Security Professionals Demand More Workplace Flexibility

The concept of Everywhere Work is now much broader, encompassing where, when, and how professionals get their work done — and flexibility has become a key workplace priority, according to Ivanti.

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Multi-Data Platform SIEM Anvilogic Raises $45 Million

Silicon Valley startup Anvilogic has raised $45 million in a Series C funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners.

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