Credit to Author: Trend Micro Research| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000
This entry aims to provide additional context to CVE-2024-21412, how it can be used by threat actors, and how Trend protects customers from this specific vulnerability.
Read moreCredit to Author: Peter Girnus| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000
The APT group Water Hydra has been exploiting the zero-day Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability (CVE-2024-21412) in its campaigns targeting financial market traders. This vulnerability, which has now been patched by Microsoft, was discovered and disclosed by the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.
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Ensuring platform security is hard, but when a company the stature of Apple begins to ramp up protection of its ecosystem, every IT decision maker should pay attention. Unfortunately, this is precisely what’s happening: Apple is now updating fundamental protection at a faster clip than it’s ever done before.
That important revelation comes from Howard Oakley at the excellent Eclectic Light Company blog. He notes that in the six weeks ending Feb. 9 Apple, has updated a Mac security feature called XProtect five times — introducing 11 new rules to the service.
Stalkerware app TheTruthSpy has been hacked for the fourth time, once again leaking the sensitive data it captures.
Read moreThreat actors are abusing commercial remote software like AnyDesk to phish users and defraud them.
Read moreA vulnerability in Roundcube webmail is being actively exploited and CISA is urging users to install an updated version.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:15:40 +0000
Top congressional lawmakers are meeting in private to discuss the future of a widely unpopular surveillance program, worrying members devoted to reforming Section 702.
Read moreInternational law enforcements agencies have disruped the infrastructure behind the Warzone RAT.
Read moreCredit to Author: Cisco| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:16:00 -0800
Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the belief that they have not invested in the security technology required to thwart attacks. In fact, 43% of cyberattacks are aimed at SMBs. Cybercriminals are rational, profit-driven and highly organised: they know that attacking easy targets can result in a bigger aggregate pay-day.
Credit to Author: Cisco| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:10:00 -0800
Modern customer demands and evolving technology capability mean smaller businesses are seeking digital transformation as eagerly as their enterprise counterparts.
In the UK, for example, a recent survey by the Federation of Small Business (FSB) suggests that in the past three years, 69% of companies have either brought an entirely new product to market (25%), improved existing products (38%) or improved or introduced new internal or customer-facing processes (25%).