Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:27:31 +0000
Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds. Meanwhile, the nonprofit entity that oversees the domain name industry is moving forward with plans to introduce a slew of new gTLDs.
Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000
A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk.
Credit to Author: Sunil Bharti| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000
Our researchers identified threat actors exploiting misconfigured Docker servers to spread the Gafgyt malware. This threat traditionally targets IoT devices; this new tactic signals a change in its behavior.
Credit to Author: Sunil Bharti| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000
Our researchers identified threat actors exploiting misconfigured Docker servers to spread the Gafgyt malware. This threat traditionally targets IoT devices; this new tactic signals a change in its behavior.
Credit to Author: AI Team| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000
The perils of AI get a lot of airtime, but what are the upsides? This issue of AI Pulse looks at some of the good AI can bring, from strengthening cybersecurity to driving health breakthroughs—and how the coming wave of agentic AI is going to take those possibilities to a whole new level.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The scourge of “malvertising” is nothing new, but the tactic is still so effective that it’s contributing to the rise of investment scams and the spread of new strains of malware.