Cyber Threats That Could Impact the Retail Industry This Holiday Season (and What to Do About It) As the holiday season approaches, retail businesses are gearing up for their annual surge in online (and in-store) traffic. Unfortunately, this increase in activity also attracts cybercriminals looking to exploit vulnerabilities for their Read more…
Employers look outside the industry for new staff Panaseer Dr Leila Powell brought her scientific method from astrophysics to cyber-security How do galaxies form? What happens when they collide? These are the kinds of questions Dr Leila Powell grappled with in her previous life as an astrophysicist. But in 2015 Read more…
Learn to Secure Petabyte-Scale Data in a Webinar with Industry Titans Data is growing faster than ever. Remember when petabytes (that’s 1,000,000 gigabytes!) were only for tech giants? Well, that’s so last decade! Today, businesses of all sizes are swimming in petabytes. But this isn’t just about storage anymore. This Read more…
FIN7 Cybercrime Group Targeting U.S. Auto Industry with Carbanak Backdoor The infamous cybercrime syndicate known as FIN7 has been linked to a spear-phishing campaign targeting the U.S. automotive industry to deliver a known backdoor called Carbanak (aka Anunak). “FIN7 identified employees at the company who worked in the IT department Read more…
DDoS Attacks on the Environmental Services Industry Surge by 61,839% in 2023 Jan 15, 2024NewsroomServer Security / Cyber Attack The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839% increase in DDoS attack traffic Read more…
QakBot Malware Resurfaces with New Tactics, Targeting the Hospitality Industry Dec 18, 2023NewsroomMalware / Cybersecurity A new wave of phishing messages distributing the QakBot malware has been observed, more than three months after a law enforcement effort saw its infrastructure dismantled by infiltrating its command-and-control (C2) network. Microsoft, which made Read more…
Security Update Guide Supports CVEs Assigned by Industry Partners | MSRC Blog Hi Folks, This month we are introducing a new data element for each CVE in the Security Update Guide, called Assigning CNA. First let me back up a bit and give some information about the CVE program. The Read more…