Collaborate Disseminate
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), considered one of the building blocks of web3, is increasingly being used to provide hidden bulletproof hosting for malware.
“Multiple malware families are currently being hosted within IPFS and retrieved during t… Continue reading Attackers Using IPFS for Distributed, Bulletproof Malware Hosting
Web scraping is a sensitive issue. Should a third party be allowed to visit a website and use automated tools to gather and store information at scale from that website? What if that information includes personal data? What does the law say? Can it be … Continue reading Web Scraping – Is It Legal and Can It Be Prevented?
There have been many warnings of the rising cybersecurity threat from deepfakes, but little hard evidence that the threat is current. SecurityWeek spoke to Nasir Memon, an IEEE Fellow and NYU professor to understand the current state and future signif… Continue reading Deepfakes – Significant or Hyped Threat?
An analysis of data collected by Rapid7’s RDP and SSH honeypots between September 10, 2021, and September 9, 2022, found tens of millions of connection attempts. The honeypots captured 215,894 unique IP source addresses and 512,002 unique passwords acr… Continue reading Password Report: Honeypot Data Shows Bot Attack Trends Against RDP, SSH
Money mules are an important part of the criminal money laundering pipeline. They help channel the proceeds from fraud and other criminal activities to the criminals themselves while obfuscating the process. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has est… Continue reading AI is Key to Tackling Money Mules and Disrupting Fraud: Industry Group
Survey: 96 Percent of Cybersecurity Decision Makers Confused By Vendor Marketing
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Despite a global economy still suffering from the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic and this year’s war in Ukraine, financing in the cybersecurity market has remained strong. In Q3 2022, a total of 221 companies raised $3.3 billion, while 104 M&… Continue reading Cybersecurity Investment Remains Strong, M&A Activity Heads Toward New Annual Record
WithSecure researcher Harry Sintonen has released an advisory on issues with Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption (OME). OME is used to send encrypted emails.
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Endpoint detection and response (EDR) specialist provider Malwarebytes has launched a new managed detection and response (MDR) solution to bring threat and incident detection to the SMB market. SMBs are heavily targeted by malicious actors because they… Continue reading Malwarebytes Launches MDR Solution for SMBs
The quantum threat to RSA-based encryption is deemed to be so pressing that NIST is seeking a quantum safe alternative
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