Travel-related Cybercrime Takes Off as Industry Rebounds

Researchers are warning a post-COVID upsurge in travel has painted a bullseye on the travel industry and has spurred related cybercrimes. Criminal activity includes an uptick in adversaries targeting the theft of airline mileage reward points, website credentials for travel websites and...

Comprehensive, Easy Cybersecurity for Lean IT Security Teams Starts with XDR

Breaches don't just happen to large enterprises. Threat actors are increasingly targeting small businesses. In fact, 43% of data breaches involved small to medium-sized businesses. But there is a glaring discrepancy. Larger businesses typically have the budget to keep their lights on if they are...

CVE-2022-31589

Due to improper authorization check, business users who are using Israeli File from SHAAM program /ATL/VQ23 transaction, are granted more than needed authorization to perform certain transaction, which may lead to users getting access to data that would otherwise be restricted...

Scammers Target NFT Discord Channel

Discord a public chat application designed for gamers has grown popular among crypto owners all over the world. Attackers are targeting the Discord servers of several popular nonfungible token NFT projects. Josh Fraser founder of Origin protocol shared a thread on Twitter earlier this month,...

FBI warns of education sector credentials on dark web forums

The FBI is warning academics to be on their guard, as an embattled education sector continues to experience attacks and breaches, with data spilling onto the so-called dark web. The government agencys Private Industry Notification PDF cites US academic credentials up for grabs from a variety of...

A week in security (May 23 – 29)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Update now! Nvidia released fixes for 10 flaws in Windows GPU drivers Chicago students lose data to ransomware attackers Hunting down your data with Whitney Merrill: Lock and Code S03E11 Unknown APT group has targeted Russia repeatedly since Ukraine invasion Zero-d...

Learn How Hackers Can Hijack Your Online Accounts Even Before You Create Them

Malicious actors can gain unauthorized access to users' online accounts via a new technique called "account pre-hijacking," latest research has found. The attack takes aim at the account creation process that's ubiquitous in websites and other online platforms, enabling an adversary to perform a...

DFIR Without Limits: Moving Beyond the “Sucker's Choice” of Today’s Breach Response Services

Three-quarters of CEOs and their boards believe a major breach is “inevitable.” And those closest to the action? Like CISOs? They’re nearly unanimous. Gartner is right there, too. Their 2021 Market Guide for Digital Forensics and Incident Response DFIR Services recommends you “operate under the...

Why you should act like your CEO’s password is “qwerty”

A poor password at the highest levels of an organisation can cost a company millions in losses. Recent findings show that half of IT leaders store passwords in shared documents. On top of that, it seems that folks at executive level are not picking good passwords either. Researchers from NordPass...

So you want to be a CISO: What you should know about data protection

Data is the lifeblood of any organization. Whether you’re a Chief Information Security Officer CISO or aspiring to become one, protecting sensitive business data will be your main priority. But the job isn’t getting any easier. In 2021, the number of data breaches climbed 68 percent to 1,862,...

Are You Investing in Securing Your Data in the Cloud?

Traditional businesses migrating to the cloud need robust information security mechanisms. Gartner predicts that more than 95% of new digital workloads will continue to be deployed on cloud-native platforms by 2025. Robust cloud data securityhttps://www.indusface.com/blog/10-ways-to-...

Upgrade Your FIM Program to Detect Risk and Streamline Compliance

File integrity monitoring FIM tools are essential for defending business and customer data, but legacy tools are falling short by swamping security analysts with irrelevant alerts. This blog describes how Qualys FIM easily solves such issues by accurately isolating file-level breaches and sending...

You Can’t Eliminate Cyberattacks, So Focus on Reducing the Blast Radius

Lately, I’ve started wondering if the biggest risk concerning cyberattacks is that we’re becoming desensitized to them. After all, businesses experience a ransomware attack every 11 seconds—the majority of which the public never hears about. Faced with this reality, it may seem like your efforts ...

The Business Case for Modernizing On-Premises and Cloud-Based Database Security

Nobody ever says, “We don’t need better security for the data we manage.” There is, however, a balancing act that security professionals perform every day to get the most security value from their solutions at the lowest possible cost. As they move more workloads into cloud-native environments an...

[Infographic] Cloud Misconfigurations: Don't Become a Breach Statistic

!\Infographic\ Cloud Misconfigurations: Don't Become a Breach Statistichttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/05/miconfigurations-infographic-clip2.jpg No one wants their company to be named in the latest headline-grabbing data breach. Luckily, there are steps you can take to keep your...

World Password Day: Brushing up on the basics

World Password Day is today, reminding us of the value of solid passwords, and good password practices generally. There are awareness days for all sorts of things, and perhaps we dont need all of them. You cant go wrong shoring up a leaky password line of defence though, so without further ado:...

SEC Plans to Hire More Staff in Crypto Enforcement Unit to Fight Frauds

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC on Tuesday announced that it will expand and rebrand its Cyber Unit to fight against cyber-related threats and protect investors in cryptocurrency markets. To that end, the SEC is renaming the Cyber Unit within the Division of Enforcement to Crypto...

Indian Govt Orders Organizations to Report Security Breaches Within 6 Hours to CERT-In

India's computer and emergency response team, CERT-In, on Thursday published new guidelines that require service providers, intermediaries, data centers, and government entities to compulsorily report cybersecurity incidents, including data breaches, within six hours. "Any service provider,...

6 Best Data Security Practices You Can Start Today

Given the dramatic increases in the volume and frequency of data theft due to breaches and the increased threat of cyberattacks resulting from current conflicts, organizations worldwide are prioritizing tactical and strategic efforts to shore up their data security. Here are six best practices yo...

Iranian Hackers Exploiting VMware RCE Bug to Deploy 'Core Impact' Backdoor

An Iranian-linked threat actor known as Rocket Kitten has been observed actively exploiting a recently patched VMware vulnerability to gain initial access and deploy the Core Impact penetration testing tool on vulnerable systems. Tracked as CVE-2022-22954 CVSS score: 9.8, the critical issue...