Synthetic ID fraud has grown in popularity, with U.S. companies reporting losses of $20 billion in 2021 compared to $6 billion in 2016. Cybersecurity experts discuss with ISMG why this type of fraud has gained traction, how fraudsters use it, mitigation steps, and what we can expect in 2022.
A week after announcing a new bug bounty program called "Hack DHS," U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that DHS is expanding the scope of the program to include finding and patching Log4j-related vulnerabilities in the systems.
Microsoft is urging customers to apply patches issued in November for two Active Directory domain controller bugs following publication of a proof-of-concept tool that leverages these bugs, which when chained can allow easy Windows domain takeover.
Sainsbury's, the U.K.’s second-largest chain of supermarkets, confirms that it suffered an outage in its payroll system caused by a cyberattack affecting its cloud-based payroll service supplier - the U.S.-based multinational firm Ultimate Kronos Group, which was hit by a cyberattack last week.
Personal information and records of 13 million people held by some of Britain's police forces reportedly has been stolen by Russian hackers. The Daily Mail Online reports that the cybercriminal gang Clop has released some of the data on the dark web after successfully breaching a Scotland-based managed service...
The spyware of sanctioned Israeli firm NSO Group was reportedly detected on the smartphones of high-profile Polish figures associated with the nation's opposition party. And the spyware has also reportedly been tied to the phone of Hanan Elatr, wife of the late journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
A Kentucky-based medical specialty practice is notifying nearly 107,000 individuals that their information was potentially compromised in a recent email hack. Meanwhile, a Missouri medical center is still dealing with a phone and IT systems outage that started last week.
The newly published U.K. Cyber Security Strategy demonstrates "the depth of ambition that the U.K. has got for the cyber sector," says Dan Patefield, program head of cyber and national security at techUK. He discusses the opportunities and challenges the new strategy brings.
The Log4j vulnerability has underscored once again the widespread dependence on open-source software projects and the lurking risks. Patrick Dwyer of OWASP says such projects deserve more resources to avoid major security vulnerabilities.
The Belgian Ministry of Defense, which is responsible for national defense and the Belgian military, announced on Monday that it has fallen victim to a cyberattack officials say relates to the widespread Apache Log4j vulnerability. The attack "paralyzed the ministry's activities for several days."
The Chinese state-sponsored threat group Tropic Trooper has resurfaced as Earth Centaur and is targeting the transportation industry and government agencies associated with that sector, according to new research from cybersecurity firm Trend Micro.
A Trojanized malicious software known as "Joker" malware has made a comeback and was detected in a Google Play app downloaded more than 500,000 times, researchers say. Found this time on an app called Color Message, Joker had the ability to go undetected for long periods of time.
As the final days of 2021 near, healthcare entities in and outside the U.S. continue to deal with systems disruptions and major data breaches involving ransomware and other cyberattacks. The latest includes a hospital for women and infants in Ireland and a large specialty medical practice in Texas.
For anyone hoping to celebrate the decline and fall of ransomware by year's end, think again. While some notable operations have bowed out - at least in name - threat intelligence firm Intel 471 warns that newcomers now account for the majority of attacks, and attack volume is "still on the rise."
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