Perfect Fit or Business Threat? How to Mitigate the Risk of Rogue Employees

Rogue employees present significant financial and cybersecurity risks to organizations. Rapid7 threat researchers and penetration testers are actively observing how malicious actors exploit hiring pipelines to infiltrate businesses. This blog highlights real-world tactics, including: Insider...

INTERPOL Busts African Cybercrime: 1,006 Arrests, 134,089 Malicious Networks Dismantled

An INTERPOL-led operation has led to the arrest of 1,006 suspects across 19 African countries and the takedown of 134,089 malicious infrastructures and networks as part of a coordinated effort to disrupt cybercrime in the continent. Dubbed Serengeti , the law enforcement exercise took place betwe...

Scammer robs homebuyers of life savings in $20 million theft spree

A 33-year-old Nigerian man living in the UK and his co-conspirators defrauded over 400 would-be home buyers in the US. In the initial phase, Babatunde Francis Ayeni and his criminal gang targeted US title companies, real estate agents, and real estate attorneys. Employees of these companies were...

Warning: Online shopping threats to avoid this Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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Stop LUCR-3 Attacks: Learn Key Identity Security Tactics in This Expert Webinar

Did you know that advanced threat actors can infiltrate the identity systems of major organizations and extract sensitive data within days? It's a chilling reality, becoming more common and concerning by the day. These attackers exploit vulnerabilities in SaaS and cloud environments, using...

Social Media Accounts: The Weak Link in Organizational SaaS Security

Social media accounts help shape a brand's identity and reputation. These public forums engage directly with customers as they are a hub to connect, share content and answer questions. However, despite the high profile role these accounts have, many organizations overlook social media account...

Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks Costing Businesses Up to $186 Billion Annually

Organizations are losing between $94 - $186 billion annually to vulnerable or insecure APIs Application Programming Interfaces and automated abuse by bots. That's according to The Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks report from Imperva, a Thales company. The report highlights that these securi...

INTERPOL Arrests 8 in Major Phishing and Romance Fraud Crackdown in West Africa

INTERPOL has announced the arrest of eight individuals in Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria as part of a crackdown on phishing scams and romance cyber fraud. Dubbed Operation Contender 2.0, the initiative is designed to tackle cyber-enabled crimes in West Africa, the agency said. One such threat involved...

Critical Flaws in Tank Gauge Systems Expose Gas Stations to Remote Attacks

Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in six different Automatic Tank Gauge ATG systems from five manufacturers that could expose them to remote attacks. "These vulnerabilities pose significant real-world risks, as they could be exploited by malicious actors to cause widespread...

Romance scams costlier than ever: 10 percent of victims lose $10,000 or more

Romance scams continue to plague users, but their costs have risen to staggering heights, according to a Malwarebytes survey carried out last month via our weekly newsletter. More than 66 percent of 850 respondents have been targeted by a romance scam, and those that were ensnared paid a hefty...

CVE-2024-6787

This vulnerability occurs when an attacker exploits a race condition between the time a file is checked and the time it is used TOCTOU. By exploiting this race condition, an attacker can write arbitrary files to the system. This could allow the attacker to execute malicious code and potentially...

CVE-2024-6787

MXview One Series and MXview One Central Manager are affected by a TOCTOU race condition (CVE-2024-6787) that can enable an attacker to write arbitrary files and potentially execute malicious code. Affected products/versions: MXview One Series <= 1.4.0 and MXview One Central Manager Series

CVE-2024-6787 MXview One Series vulnerable to Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

This vulnerability occurs when an attacker exploits a race condition between the time a file is checked and the time it is used TOCTOU. By exploiting this race condition, an attacker can write arbitrary files to the system. This could allow the attacker to execute malicious code and potentially...

TotalCloud Insights: When Multi-Factor Authentication Turns Into Single-Factor Authentication

Introduction Multi-factor authentication MFA failures have fuelled a 500% surge in ransomware losses, as noted in an article published by "The Hacker News"—from an average ransom payment of $400,000 in 2023 to $2 million in 2024. And attacks exploiting an MFA failure are getting increasingly...

Automated Threats Pose Increasing Risk to the Travel Industry

As the travel industry rebounds post-pandemic, it is increasingly targeted by automated threats, with the sector experiencing nearly 21% of all bot attack requests last year. That's according to research from Imperva, a Thales company. In their 2024 Bad Bot Report, Imperva finds that bad bots...

Navigating Insider Risks: Are your Employees Enabling External Threats?

Attacks on your network are often meticulously planned operations launched by sophisticated threats. Sometimes your technical fortifications provide a formidable challenge, and the attack requires assistance from the inside to succeed. For example, in 2022, the FBI issued a warning1 that SIM swap...

HackerOne: TOTP Authenticator implementation Accepts Expired Codes

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Empowering Small Businesses in the Digital Age: A Must-Read Guide to Web Application & API Security

Small and medium-sized businesses have increasingly become reliant on web applications - whether they are developed or procured, to drive their operations, engage customers, and scale their businesses. The increasing reliance on online operations is underscored by 84% of businesses using digital...

Google Sues App Developers Over Fake Crypto Investment App Scam

Google has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two app developers for allegedly engaging in an "international online consumer investment fraud scheme" that tricked users into downloading bogus Android apps from the Google Play Store and other sources and stealing their funds under the guise of...

Crafting Shields: Defending Minecraft Servers Against DDoS Attacks

Minecraft, with over 500 million registered users and 166 million monthly players, faces significant risks from distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks, threatening server functionality, player experience, and the game's reputation. Despite the prevalence of DDoS attacks on the game, the...