Tag: malware
PCI Launches Payment Card Cybersecurity Effort in the Middle East
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council plans to extend its role to the Middle East, as the volume of card-based payments continues...
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Gripped by Python: 5 reasons why Python is popular among cybersecurity professionals
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Python’s versatility and short learning curve are just two factors that...
Forget the AI doom and hype, let’s make computers useful
Systems Approach Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?) and then having safely...
Attacker Social-Engineered Backdoor Code Into XZ Utils
An adversary doesn't need sophisticated technical skills to execute a broad software supply chain attack like the ones experienced by SolarWinds and CodeCov. Sometimes,...
3 DPRK APTs Spied on South Korea Defense Industry
North Korea's premiere advanced persistent threats (APTs) have been quietly spying on South Korean defense contractors for at least a year and a half,...
Iran Dupes US Military Contractors, Gov’t Agencies in Cyber Campaign
An elite team of Iranian state-sponsored hackers successfully infiltrated hundreds of thousands of employee accounts at US companies and government agencies, according to the...
Hackers Create Legit Phishing Links With Ghost GitHub, GitLab Comments
Hackers are using unpublished GitHub and GitLab comments to generate phishing links that appear to come from legitimate open source software (OSS) projects.The clever...
VPNs, Firewalls’ Nonexistent Telemetry Lures APTs
Earlier this year, Mandiant Consulting's incident response team tracked an attack by a China-linked espionage group back to the compromise of an edge device...
Securing Mobile Apps Against Malware and Phishing Attacks in Indonesia – Fintech Singapore
by Fintech News Indonesia
April 23, 2024
Indonesia’s financial technology landscape is experiencing explosive growth, fueled by the rise of mobile payments and digital banking. While...
ToddyCat APT Is Stealing Data on ‘Industrial Scale’
An advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as ToddyCat is collecting data on an industrial scale from government and defense targets in the Asia-Pacific...
Why all Crypto wallets are going to be smart contract wallets
Wallets today present a significant challenge in onboarding everyday users to crypto.
In response, the industry must prioritize and push the transition towards solutions that...
CISO Corner: Breaking Staff Burnout, GPT-4 Exploits, Rebalancing NIST
Welcome to CISO Corner, Dark Reading's weekly digest of articles tailored specifically to security operations readers and security leaders. Every week, we'll offer articles...