The British government has been alerted multiple times in recent years that officials' smartphones appeared to have been infected with spyware built by Israel's NSO Group, as part of nation-state espionage campaigns targeting Britain, human rights watchdog Citizen Lab says.
Leon Ravenna, CISO of KAR Global, starts each day on the job with the expectation that this could be his last. That's how urgent cybersecurity has become, and it's in part why he's driven to dispatch the image of the CISO as the bureaucratic "Dr. No."
Gigamon has promoted Shane Buckley to CEO and tasked him with expanding the company's ability to protect customer data in the cloud. Buckley plans to broaden Gigamon's portfolio and add more functionality to guard data in motion regardless of if it resides in a physical, virtual or cloud network.
The Conti ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the March 31 cyberattack on German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex, which was forced to turn off its IT systems at multiple locations across several business units. The Russia-linked threat group has added Nordex as a victim on its leak site.
Ransomware and nation-state threats are daunting. But the threat that concerns Mustapha Kebbeh the most is supply chain risk. The Brinks CISO discusses how he has tackled this, as well as the challenges of tool complexity and peer collaboration.
Identity experts urge the Biden administration to accelerate the deployment of mobile driver's licenses and ensure identity theft victims get direct assistance. These are among the four items experts say must be added to an upcoming executive order focused on preventing and detecting identity theft.
A surprising improvement in loss ratios for cyber insurance providers in 2021 means the rapid rise in premiums might at last subside later this year. The loss ratio declined for the first time since 2018 despite the frequency and severity of claims filed for cyberattacks increasing again in 2021.
New legislation mandating cyber incident reporting for critical infrastructure providers within 72 hours, and the reporting of ransom payments within 24 hours, is "groundbreaking," says former National Security Agency deputy commander Tim Kosiba, CEO of security firm bracket f.
Obsidian Security has closed a Series C funding round to prevent session hijacking on more platforms and increase the number of SaaS applications being defended. Obsidian wants to go from protecting 25 major SaaS applications today to safeguarding hundreds of SaaS applications in a year or two.
Ronin Network, which powers the popular NFT game Axie Infinity, announced it had been the victim of a security breach that amounted to about $615 million in stolen funds. The company tweeted that the attacker's wallet had been connected to Binance and that an investigation is currently underway.
A lawsuit filed alleges, among other claims, that respiratory care provider SuperCare Health Inc. was negligent in failing to protect sensitive health information from a 2021 hacking incident affecting more than 300,000 patients. Experts say the litigation follows an increasingly familiar trend.
Researchers discovered a new social engineering-heavy malware campaign focused on defrauding employees in West Africa's banking sector. Although this campaign is not exactly new, it shows a detailed account of what social engineering looks like, according to cybersecurity veteran Tari Schreider.
Microsoft says it has seized control of 65 domains that the ZLoader gang has been using to grow, control and communicate with its botnet. ZLoader, a descendant of the ubiquitous Zeus banking malware, is run by a global, internet-based, organized crime gang operating malware as a service.
U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Energy, CISA, the NSA and the FBI issued a joint cybersecurity advisory about advanced persistent threat actors using new tools and malwares to target industrial control systems and supervisory control and data acquisition devices.
Accenture's new ransomware report reveals key challenges in executing an effective communications plan. Robert Boyce, managing director of global cyber response, discusses why existing recovery strategies aren't enough and offers practical steps for managing a ransomware response.
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