Aug 30, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
LYON, France – INTERPOL has issued a global alert for organized crime groups attempting to defraud governments with fake offers to sell COVID-19 vaccines. The warning follows some 60 cases in 40 countries around the world where individuals in health ministries and...
Aug 27, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Ransomware attack patterns affecting organizations can often be difficult to discover, as they continue to evolve. In the past, cybercriminals would often target the same entry points in an organization and try to infiltrate it with malware. Today, the attack pattern...
Aug 26, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
As the prevalence of digital fraud attempts on businesses and consumers continues to rise, TransUnion’s analysis found that fraudsters are re-focusing their efforts from financial services to the travel and leisure and gaming industries. Across industries, the rate of...
Aug 25, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Ransomware attacks have become a massive problem for almost every industry and every organization size. In the U.S., federal officials have called it one of the biggest threats currently facing the nation. During the last year, criminals have attacked schools,...
Aug 24, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Researchers at Analyst1have found a custom espionage malware that enables hackers to harvest keystrokes and confidential documents for espionage purposes Russian intelligence services are collaborating with notorious ransomware groups in a bid to compromise US...
Aug 23, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Decentralized VPNs might be the latest way in which we can stay safe on the web—and are even touted as a way in which we can change the way the internet works. But what are these services exactly, and how do they work? Regular VPN vs. Decentralized VPN We’ll explain...
Aug 20, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The infosec community has long been warning that ransomware has the potential to grow into the number one cyberthreat for business. However, since ransom demands were low and malware distribution was a lot less effective a few years ago, many organizations paid those...
Aug 19, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Japan’s Liquid Global exchange said it has been hacked, and has suspended deposits and withdrawals. According to a tweet on Thursday, the exchange said its warm wallets were compromised and that it was moving digital assets offline. While the total amount stolen has...
Aug 19, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft’s Security Intelligence team is once again raising an alarm about the call center phishing and malware group behind what it calls BazaCall. “We are tracking multiple active email campaigns that use BazarLoader to deliver a wide range of payloads....
Aug 18, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
A new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan has been found to deliver a malicious application that deploys a banking trojan on compromised Windows machines to steal credentials associated with cryptocurrency accounts. The application...
Aug 17, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cybersecurity researchers have noticed a sharp increase in phishing attacks that rely on Google’s open redirects using Google Meet and Google DoubleClick. The use of the open redirects allows threat actors to camouflage malicious links as trustworthy ones and get them...
Aug 16, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Global consulting firm Accenture has been the target of ransomware group Lockbit, with the gang reportedly taking encrypted data from the company. Lockbit says it will publish the data if Accenture does not pay the ransom, according to screenshots of the...
Aug 14, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
There have been 71 billion ransomware attacks on remote access between January 2020 and June 2021, according to new research from ESET. The cybersecurity firm published its latest research white paper, titled RANSOMWARE: A look at the criminal art of malicious code,...
Aug 13, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The threat actor who hacked Poly Network’s cross-chain interoperability protocol yesterday to steal over $600 million worth of cryptocurrency assets is now returning the stolen funds. As the Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Poly Network shared two...
Aug 12, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
According to new research, nearly two-thirds of employees use personal passwords to protect corporate data and vice versa. And business leaders are finding this increasingly concerning. The research conducted by identity and access management company My1Login found...
Aug 11, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Tips to avoid clicking something bad — and what might happen if you do When a security vulnerability at IT software-maker Kaseya led to a ransomware attack that affected 800 to 1,500 businesses, it wasn’t one employee’s fault. But that’s not always the case....
Aug 10, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
2020 proved to be a significant year for cyber threats and attacks. In fact, Proofpoint’s latest Human Factor report reveals the reality of millions of ransomware-loaded emails, malicious threat actors and new sophisticated attack methods. Proofpoint’s Human Factor...
Aug 9, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Security researchers found a new class of DNS vulnerabilities impacting major DNS-as-a-Service (DNSaaS) providers that could allow attackers to access sensitive information from corporate networks. DNSaaS providers (also known as managed DNS providers) provide DNS...
Aug 6, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft’s Security Intelligence team has issued an alert to Office 365 users and admins to be on the lookout for a “crafty” phishing email with spoofed sender addresses. Microsoft put out an alert after observing an active campaign targeting Office...
Aug 5, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft’s new Windows 365 Cloud PC service has attracted so much interest in the trial version that the company has now run out of servers to support trial signups. Microsoft has now paused the Windows 365 trial program until it boosts capacity, according to...
Aug 4, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
To learn a skill, we gather knowledge, practice carefully, and monitor our performance. Eventually, we become better at that activity. Machine learning is a technique that allows computers to do just that. Can Computers Learn? Defining intelligence is tough. We all...
Aug 3, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Google has lifted a ban on bitcoin and crypto advertising imposed for more than three years since March 2018. Starting from today (August 3rd) bitcoin and crypto companies can once more advertised on the search giant and the many websites that make part of its...
Aug 3, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has continued its analysis of the LemonDuck malware, known for installing crypto-miners in enterprise environments. It makes a strong case for why it is worth removing it from your network. This group, according to Microsoft, has a well-stocked arsenal of...
Aug 2, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
People are said to oftentimes imagine that the most prominent targets of cyber threats and hackers are big businesses and government organisations. However, while such are highly lucrative targets, they’re not the only ones that are vulnerable to such attacks. It’s...