Europol's cybercrime report names privacy coins and wallets, and decentralized markets as the top cyber threats. These privacy-enhanced digital services made it more challenging for law enforcement agencies.
The endgame for AI chatbots was always integration of targeted ads, but Meta plans to do more than make Meta AI just another arm of its internet-spanning data collection network. The plan is for the chatbot to eventually function as a shopping assistant that can search for products and put them into shopping carts.
The 2021 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Report confirms that threats to industrial operations are rising both in number and severity and while monitoring is up, but 48% say that they cannot be sure that they have not been breached.
94% of businesses experienced an attack in the past 12 months with 74% of incidents attributed to cyber risks associated with technology adopted during the remote working period.
The back-and-forth over public disclosure policy does have substantial "gray area" and nuance. As Microsoft points out, the zero-day vulnerabilities that Chaotic Eclipse provided a "road map" to threat actors and some were almost immediately put to use in real-world attacks. On the other side of the coin, security researchers have long complained of unresponsive and heavy-handed communications from Microsoft.
A location tracking cloud vulnerability was found on hundreds of smartwatch brands using Thinkrace platform which allows third parties to access the devices without any particular hacking skills.
SolarWinds hackers suspected to have breached email security provider Mimecast compromising its Microsoft 365 Exchange connection certificate, and affecting 10% of its customers.
A massive supply chain attack had distributed malware to tens of thousands of ASUS computers worldwide through legitimate ASUS software updates. It appears as if the attackers had inside information about ASUS servers and systems.
Report from security firm Analyst1 illustrates how agile ransomware groups have become, to the point that they are backing off and regrouping with new tactics before slow-moving legislation and enforcement can catch up with them.
State-Sponsored Hackers Have Been Pushing Spyware Through Authorized Google Play Downloads for Years
Campaign run by a group of state-sponsored hackers appears to have been passing data-siphoning spyware through approved apps in Google Play Store for years.
