> TODAY'S SUMMARY (101 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. OpenAI has partnered with Ukraine to enhance the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure amid ongoing conflict with Russia. A member of the Ryuk ransomware gang received a two-year prison sentence for extorting over $1.2 million. The ShinyHunters group claims to have breached the FBI, demanding the retraction of a report criticizing their methods. Vulnerabilities in multiple platforms, including GitHub and WordPress, continue to pose risks, with leaked GitHub App keys still being exploited. Additionally, a new Windows malware, CLOSEDQUORUM, utilizes AI models to determine its actions, showcasing the evolving landscape of AI in cyberattacks.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 16:00
They obtained full control of the pan-tilt-zoom controls and could redirect the video feed and movement alerts.
The European Commission and the United States have agreed on a new framework to replace Safe Harbor, the EU-US Privacy Shield.
Every good security researcher has a well-curated list of blogs they subscribe to. At Trail of Bits, given our interest in software security and its intersections with programming languages, one of our favorites is The Programming Language Enthusiast by Michael Hicks. Our primary activity is to desc...
FireEye has acquired Invotas, where the Security Orchestrator technologies will unify cyber-attack detection results, threat intelligence and incident response elements of an organization’s security program into a single console.
Five years’ probation for RAT mastermind who co-operated with FBI
At the end of last year, we had some free time to explore new and interesting uses of the automated bug-finding technology we developed for the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. While the rest of the competitors are quietly preparing for the CGC Final Event, we can entertain you with tales of running our...
National Cybersecurity Protection System failing on multiple counts
Industry nervous as agreement on data transfers still pending
Now that the new year is upon us, we can look back and take assessment of 2015. The past year saw Trail of Bits continuing our prior work, such as automated vulnerability discovery and remediation, and branching out into new areas, like secure self-hosted video chat. We also increased our community...
Payment card data breaches at its venues, during three periods between May 2014 and last December, were due to PoS malware.
New campaigns are using malicious Microsoft Word documents and spear phishing emails to spread malware.
We’re excited to announce our financial support for Let’s Encrypt, the open, automated and free SSL Certificate Authority (CA) that went into public beta on December 3. With so much room for improvement in the CA space, Let’s Encrypt offers a refreshing, promising vision of encrypting the web. Expen...
The risk of malware infection grew by 17% in December, as the number of active malware families increased by 25%.
Californian ‘dark intelligence’ biz said to be struggling
Staff forced to return to pen and paper
Salaries for IT security roles to increase in response to cyber-crime threats.
Voice fraud prevention and authentication gains Google support in a $75 million Series C funding round for Pindrop.
There was a rapid growth of 236% in viruses and worms between the third and fourth quarter of 2015.
Access to key online banking systems still not 100%
Attacks spiked over 20% from previous quarter, says Imperva