AllaKore RAT Malware Targeting Mexican Firms with Financial Fraud Tricks Jan 27, 2024NewsroomMalware / Software Update Mexican financial institutions are under the radar of a new spear-phishing campaign that delivers a modified version of an open-source remote access trojan called AllaKore RAT. The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team attributed the activity to an unknown Latin American-based financially motivated threat actor. ...
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Kasseika Ransomware Using BYOVD Trick to Disarms Security Pre-Encryption
Kasseika Ransomware Using BYOVD Trick to Disarms Security Pre-Encryption The ransomware group known as Kasseika has become the latest to leverage the Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack to disarm security-related processes on compromised Windows hosts, joining the likes of other groups like Akira, AvosLocker, BlackByte, and RobbinHood. The tactic allows “threat actors to terminate antivirus processes and services ...
Read More »What is Nudge Security and How Does it Work?
What is Nudge Security and How Does it Work? Jan 24, 2024SaaS Security / Endpoint Security In today’s highly distributed workplace, every employee has the ability to act as their own CIO, adopting new cloud and SaaS technologies whenever and wherever they need. While this has been a critical boon to productivity and innovation in the digital enterprise, it has ...
Read More »Google Kubernetes Misconfig Lets Any Gmail Account Control Your Clusters
Google Kubernetes Misconfig Lets Any Gmail Account Control Your Clusters Jan 24, 2024NewsroomCloud Security / Kubernetes Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a loophole impacting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that could be potentially exploited by threat actors with a Google account to take control of a Kubernetes cluster. The critical shortcoming has been codenamed Sys:All by cloud security firm Orca. As many ...
Read More »MGM Resorts breached by ‘Scattered Spider’ hackers: sources
MGM Resorts breached by ‘Scattered Spider’ hackers: sources By Zeba Siddiqui and Christopher Bing SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON – A hacking group named Scattered Spider brought down the systems of the $14 billion gaming giant MGM Resorts International this week, two sources familiar with the matter said, as U.S. law enforcement officials started a probe into the breach. Several MGM systems remained ...
Read More »Apple-backed study finds rise in data breaches
Apple-backed study finds rise in data breaches In the first nine months of 2023, U.S. data breaches increased by 20% compared to the full year 2022, according to a new study that was commissioned by Apple . The iPhone maker paid for the study, which was conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Stuart E. Madnick, about a year after ...
Read More »Role of cyber insurance in incident response planning: From data breach to resilience
Role of cyber insurance in incident response planning: From data breach to resilience Anand Venkatraman, Partner, Risk Advisory, Deloitte India The digital landscape is driving the global economy, transforming the business environment, and giving rise to new business models within the new digital economy. However, with such unprecedented transformation comes risks of cybersecurity incidents and data breaches. While organizations continue ...
Read More »In Davos, AI excitement persists but fears over managing risks
In Davos, AI excitement persists but fears over managing risks Walking around in Davos where the global elites gathered for the World Economic Forum this week, there were two inescapable words on the windows: artificial intelligence. If 2023 was the year everyone including investors and politicians were feverishly excited about AI, 2024 looks set to be a more sober year ...
Read More »Companies rush for cyber insurance on data laws, digitization
Companies rush for cyber insurance on data laws, digitization Insurance is generally difficult to sell, but for a product like cyber insurance, the coin has flipped. The market is at a point where demand is growing fast and insurance companies might not be prepared to meet it yet, say industry insiders. Multiple insurance brokers ET spoke to said that over ...
Read More »China issues draft guidelines for standardizing AI industry
China issues draft guidelines for standardizing AI industry China’s industry ministry on Wednesday issued draft guidelines for standardizing the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, it said in a statement posted on the ministry’s website. The draft proposes to form more than 50 national and industry-wide standards for AI by 2026. It also said China aimed to participate in forming more than ...
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