The FBI, in collaboration with international partners, successfully dismantled the QakBot malware and botnet, untethering over 700,000 infected computers worldwide and seizing $8.6 million in cryptocurrency from the cybercriminal organization.
Delinea’s report reveals the challenges faced by organizations in obtaining cyber insurance and emphasizes the importance of insurers conducting risk assessments and evaluating industry-specific vulnerabilities.
The leak of the LockBit 3.0 ransomware builder has resulted in the development of personalized variants by criminal organizations, leading to a surge in attacks on multiple organizations and presenting new challenges for security analysts and defense systems.
Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing techniques are being used to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) in Office365, posing a significant threat to user identities and sensitive information.
A study commissioned by Seemplicity and conducted by Dark Reading highlights the time-consuming and inefficient manual processes involved in deduplication, prioritization, and routing of security issues within organizations, as well as the struggle to locate the correct fixer and verify fixes.
DarkGate malware, rented out by its developer to a limited number of affiliates, sees an increase in activity as it utilizes hijacked email threads to deceive recipients into downloading the readily available malware.
