A dark web forum recruited affiliates in a phishing campaign targeting YouTube creators with cookie stealing malware to hijack their accounts and stream cryptocurrency scams.
If organizations want to effectively combat the ongoing skills gap war in the cybersecurity field, as well as properly prepare against the next new cyber threat, they will need to become creative in how they become involved with the education of the next generations of cyber professionals.
A cybersecurity advisory by CISA, the FBI, and the NSA warned that BlackMatter ransomware is actively targeting critical infrastructure entities and food organizations in the US.
Microsoft reported that the Russian hackers behind the devastating SolarWinds attack are employing similar tactics to worm their way into tech supply chains, looking to establish long-term footholds for espionage purposes.
Acer suffered another cyber attack in Taiwan by the Desorden group that hacked the company in India. Hackers warned of Acer's poor cybersecurity practices and vulnerable Asian servers.
Google has been issuing direct personal warnings to users that appear to have been targeted by a state-sponsored hacking group. The company has taken the unusual step of issuing a general public warning about an Iran-backed threat.
US government employees will soon be required to use a stronger measure of multi-factor authentication to access their work accounts. Aimed at putting an end to phishing, the measure is phasing out less secure forms of authentication.
Australian companies that have connections to the country's critical infrastructure might have no choice but to allow the government to step in during cyber attacks, if new legislation proposed by the Morrison government is approved.
Collaborative international law enforcement effort appears to have at least temporarily crippled the notorious REvil ransomware gang, taking the group's Tor sites and dark web infrastructure off the internet and putting it beyond reach.
Privacy lawsuit that is attempting to hold Facebook liable for the Cambridge Analytica breach has attached CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant, claiming that he played a key role in decisions.
