Cyber-Insurance Companies: Are They Fueling Ransomware Frequency Spikes?
Posted September 3, 2019 in Ransomware, Compliance, Data Breach
ProPublica says cyber-insurance companies are making the push to pay ransom demands because it saves them money in...
Surge in Ransoms Expected Due to MegaCortex 2.0
Posted September 3, 2019 in Ransomware, Digital Forensics, Malware
According to researchers from Accenture's iDefense team, this newer version is ready for wide-scale attacks,...
Threat Intelligence Bulletin Warns Software Developers are High Targets
Posted August 15, 2019 in Malware, Data Breach, Cloud Security
Cybersecurity company Glasswall’s August 2019 Threat Intelligence Bulletin stated that the technology sector accounts...
iNSYNQ Ransom Attack Possibly Caused by Phishing
Posted August 14, 2019 in Ransomware, Malware, Data Breach
KrebsOnSecurity has reported that a ransomware outbreak that compromised QuickBooks cloud hosting firm iNSYNQ in...
Steam Zero-Day Vulnerability Discovered and Fixed
Posted August 12, 2019 in Penetration Testing, Malware, Data Breach
Despite Valve determining that a flaw submitted by their bug bounty program HackerOne was “Not Applicable”, two...
Pakistani National Faces 20 Year Sentence for AT&T Unlock Scheme
Posted August 7, 2019 in Malware, Cloud Security, Data Breach
Muhammad Fahd, a 34-year-old Pakistani national arrested by the United States Federal Government back in February has...
Tencent Discovers Android "QualPwn" Vulnerabilities
Posted August 6, 2019 in Data Breach, Malware, AI
Security researchers from Tencent’s Blade team discovered a series of Android vulnerabilities collectively known as...
New Android Ransomware Filecoder.C
Posted July 30, 2019 in Ransomware, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Data Breach
ESET researchers have discovered a new Android ransomware strain called Android/Filecoder.C. The strain was...