Google is in the process of developing a password strength indicator for its Chrome browser. The good news is that there is an easy way of starting users down the road to using strong passwords even before the new version of Chrome is released. [...]

CS.MONEY, one of the largest platforms for trading CS:GO skins, has taken its website offline after a cyberattack allowed hackers to loot 20,000 items worth approximately $6,000,000. [...]

South Staffordshire Water, a company supplying 330 million liters of drinking water to 1.6 consumers daily, has issued a statement confirming IT disruption from a cyberattack. [...]

South Staffordshire Water, a company supplying 330 million liters of drinking water to 1.6 consumers daily, has issued a statement confirming IT disruption from a cyberattack. [...]

South Staffordshire Water, a company supplying 330 million liters of drinking water to 1.6 consumers daily, has issued a statement confirming IT disruption from a cyberattack. [...]

Argentina's Judiciary of Córdoba has shut down its IT systems after suffering a ransomware attack, reportedly at the hands of the new 'Play' ransomware operation. [...]

Monero, the privacy-oriented decentralized cryptocurrency project, underwent a planned hard fork event on Saturday, introducing new features to boost its privacy and security. [...]

A dozen malicious Python packages were uploaded to the PyPi repository this weekend in a typosquatting attack that performs DDoS attacks on a Counter-Strike 1.6 server. [...]

Phone numbers of close to 1,900 Signal users were exposed in the data breach Twilio cloud communications company suffered at the beginning of the month. [...]

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has disrupted a hacking and social engineering operation linked to a Russian threat actor tracked as SEABORGIUM that targets propland organizations in NATO countries. [...]

Threat analysts monitoring cyberattacks on Ukraine report that the operations of the notorious Russian state-backed hacking group 'Gamaredon' continue to heavily target the war-torn country. [...]

Users may see a 0x800f0922 error when trying to install security update KB5012170 on the currently supported Windows operating system for consumers and the enterprise-class Server version. [...]

Phishing is constantly evolving to bypass user training and email protections, and as threat actors adopt new tactics with better success ratios, quarterly stats reflect interesting threat trends on multiple fronts. [...]

In addition to the virus scanner, Microsoft Defender offers other security functions. These include the reduction of the attack surface, which hardens applications such as Office, browsers, and Adobe Reader. The feature is not active by default and can be configured via group policies or PowerShell.

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The digital skills gap, especially in cybersecurity, is not a new phenomenon. This problematic is now exacerbate by the prevalence of burnout, which was presented at Black Hat USA 2022

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Windows used to be the big talking point when it came to exploits resulting in mass casualties. Nowadays, talks turned to other massive attack platforms like #cloud and cars

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Researchers have discovered at least 9,000 exposed VNC (virtual network computing) endpoints that can be accessed and used without authentication, allowing threat actors easy access to internal networks. [...]

The SOVA Android banking trojan continues to evolve with new features, code improvements, and the addition of a new ransomware feature that encrypts files on mobile devices. [...]

It was a very busy week for ransomware news and attacks, especially with the disclosure that Cisco was breached by a threat actor affiliated with the Yanluowang ransomware gang. [...]