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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in effect for two years in the European Union (EU). As Americans continue to become attentive to GDPR and their own data privacy, it’s not surprising that some data protection guidelines… Continue reading Trading Cookies for U.S. Federal Data Privacy Regulations
Security researchers detected a clever new phishing campaign that abused three enterprise cloud services in an attempt to steal victims’ credentials. On July 18, Bleeping Computer revealed that the phishing campaign’s attack emails claimed … Continue reading Cloud Services Abused by Clever Phishing Campaign
U.S. law enforcement arrested and charged a man with fraudulently obtaining loans via the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). On July 16, Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Att… Continue reading Los Angeles Man Arrested, Charged with PPP Loan Fraud
Security researchers discovered a new Android banking malware family called “BlackRock” that targets 337 mobile applications. ThreatFabric found that BlackRock hid its icon when it first launched itself on a mobile device. It then posed as … Continue reading BlackRock Android Banking Malware Targeting 337 Mobile Apps
What the heck has happened on Twitter? Twitter accounts, owned by politicians, celebrities, and large organisations suddenly started tweeting messages to their many millions of followers, at the behest of hackers. What did the messages say? Here is a t… Continue reading The Twitter mega-hack. What you need to know
Being a cybersecurity company in these turbulent times puts us at Tripwire, to some degree, on the front-line. Working with the largest organisations in government, finance and critical national infrastructure, we see good and bad every day. In a confu… Continue reading Strong Things Have Deep Roots: Capitalizing On Half a Century Of Positive Action In The Cybersecurity Sector
A man received prison time for helping to conduct an identity theft and fraud scheme that targeted thousands of veterans and U.S. service members. On July 9, the Office of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Chief U.S. Distr… Continue reading Man Gets Prison Time for Identity Theft Scheme Targeting Veterans
Containers are on the rise. As reported by GlobalNewswire, Allied Market Research estimated that the application market would grow from its 2016 value of $698 million to $8.20 by 2025. With a compound annual growth rate of 31.8% between 2018 and 2025, … Continue reading 5 Risks You Need to Remember When Securing Your Containers
Security researchers observed some variants of the TrickBot malware family mistakenly warning victims that they had suffered an infection. Advanced Intel’s Vitali Kremez traced the mistake to “password-stealing grabber.dll.” This modu… Continue reading TrickBot Malware Warning Victims of Infection by Mistake
Security researchers found evidence that the Conti ransomware strain could be a possible successor to the Ryuk crypto-malware family. Vitali Kremez, strategic advisor for SentinelLabs, analyzed both Conti and Ryuk. He found that the former appeared to … Continue reading Conti Ransomware Deemed a Possible Successor of Ryuk