cybersecurity threats
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Threat Intelligence
Chinese ‘RedZei’ Group Batters Victims With Incessant Vishing Effort
Chinese threat actors have been targeting Chinese-speaking students in the United Kingdom with a unique phone scam that aims to…
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Threat Intelligence
Raspberry Robin Worm Hatches a Highly Complex Upgrade
Hacking groups are using a new version of the Raspberry Robin framework to attack Spanish and Portuguese-language based financial institutions…
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Threat Intelligence
Holiday Spirit? LockBit Gives Children’s Hospital Free Decryptor
After being hit by the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) apparatus, the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) received an unexpected holiday gift:…
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Threat Intelligence
Beyond the Obvious: The Boldest Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023
The end of the year is upon us, and that means predictions — lots and lots of predictions. And no…
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Threat Intelligence
New Year’s Surprise: Cybersecurity M&A, Funding Activity Snowballs in Q4
Mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity and investments in cybersecurity picked up once again in the fourth quarter after dropping off…
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Threat Intelligence
Will the Crypto Crash Impact Cybersecurity in 2023? Maybe.
With the implosion of the FTX exchange putting a punctuation mark on the cryptocurrency crash of 2022, one of the…
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Threat Intelligence
Google: With Cloud Comes APIs & Security Headaches
Web application programming interfaces (APIs) are the glue that holds together cloud applications and infrastructure, but these endpoints are increasingly…
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Threat Intelligence
Videoconferencing Worries Grow, With SMBs in Cyberattack Crosshairs
It’s no secret that the acceleration of work-from-home and distributed workforce trends — infamously spurred on by the pandemic —…
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Threat Intelligence
Biden Signs Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Guidelines Into Law
On Dec. 21, the US government’s plan for transitioning to post-quantum cryptography became law, committing the Office of Management and…
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Threat Intelligence
Zerobot Adds Brute Force, DDoS to Its IoT Attack Arsenal
A recently discovered botnet that attacks organizations through Internet of things (IoT) vulnerabilities has added brute-forcing and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…