Collaborate Disseminate
This weekend visitors to the Australia Post website may have seen a somewhat eyebrow-raising message.
For where the site normally displays “Latest news”, it was instead suggesting that postal workers were trying out a new technique for coping with t… Continue reading Australia Post isn’t smoking meth, despite what its website may have said
A food bank in Philadelphia has ended up out of pocket after scammers successfully tricked it out of almost one million dollars. Continue reading Food bank loses nearly $1,000,000 in Business Email Compromise scam
Passengers on Vancouver’s transit system were unable to use their credit and debit cards for ticket payments after the service was badly hit by a ransomware attack.
TransLink, the public transport operator in Vancouver, Canada, first indicated its I… Continue reading Metro Vancouver TransLink hit by Egregor ransomware attack, travellers disrupted
Embraer, a Brazilian manufacturer of aircraft, has disclosed that hackers managed to breach its computer systems, and steal data in what sounds like a ransomware attack.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Aircraft maker Embraer admits hackers breached its systems and stole data
Embraer, a Brazilian manufacturer of aircraft, has disclosed that hackers managed to breach its computer systems, and steal data. Although Embraer may not be a household name, it is the world’s third-largest producer of civil aircraft (after Boeing and… Continue reading Aircraft maker Embraer admits hackers breached its systems and stole data
Fears are raised about cyber bioterrorists, there’s a widespread blackout for IoT devices caused by a cloud cock-up, and what role do strippers play in a revamp of the United States’s computer crime laws?
All this and much more is discussed in the l… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #207: Cyber biowarfare, giant ladybugs, and strippers
Security researchers have warned of the latest incarnation of a backdoor trojan horse that has been used in the past to target Mac users.
If you’re a Mac user, I really hope you’re running anti-virus software. Continue reading Mac users warned of more Ocean Lotus malware targeted attacks
The world’s largest maker of industrial computers, Taiwan’s Advantech, has reportedly been hit by a ransomware attack – with cybercriminals demanding a ransom worth approximately US $14 million for a decryption key, and to prevent the public leaking of… Continue reading Conti ransomware attack demands $14 million from industrial IoT firm Advantech
Many thanks to the great folks at Recorded Future, who have sponsored my writing for the past week. If 2020 taught the security industry anything, it is this: There has never been a better time to be a cybercriminal. From extortion ransomware to cybere… Continue reading You too can be a security intelligence expert, with these free tools from Recorded Future