“Rather than scam or phish everyday people directly for gift card-based payments, Storm-0539 infiltrates large retailers and fraudulently issues gift card codes to themselves, virtually printing their own money,” Microsoft’s Vasu Jakkal explained.
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Bugcrowd CEO Dave Gerry said their acquisition of Brighton, England-based Informer will fuel the adoption of Bugcrowd’s penetration testing technology and prompt clients to expand the scope of their bug bounty programs.
An improper access control bug in Apache Flink that was fixed in January 2021 has been added to the US government’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, meaning criminals are right now abusing the flaw in the wild to compromise targets.
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A leading cyber lawyer in Australia has warned CISOs and other IT leaders their organisations and careers could be at stake if they do not understand data risk and data governance practices.
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Threat actors have been observed making use of fake websites masquerading as legitimate antivirus solutions from Avast, Bitdefender, and Malwarebytes to propagate malware capable of stealing sensitive information from Android and Windows devices.
“Hosting malicious software through sites which look legitimate is predatory to general consumers, especially those who look to protect their devices
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The SEC’s lawsuit may take years to resolve through litigation, but here are five things CISOs should do now to protect both themselves as individuals as well as their organizations.
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The security issue was discovered internally by Google’s Clément Lecigne and is tracked as CVE-2024-5274. It is a high-severity ‘type confusion’ in V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine responsible for executing JS code.
Siloed approaches to securing human and machine identities are driving identity-based attacks across enterprises and their ecosystems, according to a new report by CyberArk.
A requirement for the Pentagon to commission an independent study on the creation of a U.S. Cyber Force was added late Wednesday to the House version of the defense policy bill.
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