Cyber Threats

August 15, 2017

HITRUST and Trend Micro Partnership to Improve Cyber Threat Xchange Capabilities

The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has partnered with Trend Micro to form the HITRUST Cyber Threat Management and Response Center which will enhance the ...

July 21, 2017

Cisco Reports Fall in Exploit Kit Activity but Increase in Malware Delivery Via Email

Exploit kit activity has fallen, but there has been a notable rise in the use of email as a vector for delivering malware, according to ...

July 20, 2017

Call Issued for Federal Agencies to Adopt DMARC to Prevent Phishing

Over the past few months there have been several cases of criminals impersonating government departments in phishing campaigns, prompting Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) to write ...

July 13, 2017

Fortinet FortiMail Receives VBSpam+ Certification Topping List for Malware Detection

For the eighth consecutive time, Fortinet’s FortiMail spam filtering solution as passed the Virus Bulletin test and has been awarded VBSpam+ Certification. The test confirms ...

June 22, 2017

Patch Issued for Actively Exploited Drupal Vulnerability

An actively exploited Drupal vulnerability – tracked as CVE-2017-6922 – has been patched this week. The flaw, which affects Drupal v 7.56 and 8.3.4, is ...

May 29, 2017

Samba Vulnerability Could be Exploited in WannaCry Style Attacks

A Samba vulnerability has been discovered that could potentially be exploited and used in network worm attacks akin to those used to deliver WannaCry ransomware ...

May 6, 2017

Healthcare Cyber Threat Landscape to be Covered in HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum

Over the next week, the HIMSS Privacy and Security Forum will be held in San Francisco. The two-day conference provides an chance for CISOs, CIOs ...

April 25, 2017

Webroot Antivirus Update Problems Mount: Servers, PCs and Apps Crippled

Webroot antivirus update problems are mounting with many thousands of the company’s customers experiencing severe issues after installing an April 24 update. Customers who had ...

April 20, 2017

Employee Security Awareness is the Biggest Healthcare Data Security Threat

Hackers continue to target healthcare organizations, malware is a constant threat, and ransomware continues to pose many problems, but when it comes to the biggest ...

April 4, 2017

74% of Organizations Vulnerable to Insider Threats

Spending on cybersecurity defenses has increased to reduce the risk of attacks by cybercriminals, yet organizations still feel vulnerable to insider threats. Furthermore, insider threats ...

March 28, 2017

Ironscales Announces New Partnership with Check Point to Improve Detection and Remediation of Email Security Threats

Ironscales has announced it has partnered with Check Point Software Technologies Ltd and will be integrating its innovative IronTraps™ anti-phishing solution with Check Points’ Sand ...

March 10, 2017

Actively Exploited Apache Struts Vulnerability Discovered

The discovery of a new Apache Struts vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild has prompted both Cisco Talos and Apache to issue ...

March 8, 2017

Guidance on Cyber Threats Issued to Healthcare Organizations by OCR

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights has issued new guidance on cyber threats, advising HIPAA-covered entities to obtain the ...

March 7, 2017

Powershell Remote Access Trojan Uses DNS for 2-Way Communications with C2 Server

A new Powershell remote access Trojan has been identified by researchers at Cisco Talos. The memory-resident malware does not write any files to the hard ...

February 23, 2017

Largest Healthcare W-2 Phishing Scam of 2017: 17,000 Employees Impacted

The largest healthcare W-2 phishing scam of the year to date has recently been reported by American Senior Communities of Indiana. While many organizations have ...

February 14, 2017

Windows Devices Used to Increase Size of Mirai Botnet

The Mirai Botnet was used to launch devastating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks late last year, some of which took down large sections of ...

February 14, 2017

Sophos Malware Report Predicts Rise in Ransomware and IoT Threats

Ahead of the RSA Conference 2017, SophosLabs has released a new malware forecast that makes predictions about the changing threats over the coming months. SophosLabs ...

February 13, 2017

MacOS Malware Spread by Malicious Word Macros

Security researchers have discovered that MacOS malware is being spread by malicious Word macros. This is the first time that MacOS malware has been discovered ...

February 10, 2017

HITRUST Threat Catalogue Helps Healthcare Industry Prioritize Cybersecurity Threats

The HITRUST Alliance has announced that the organization will be releasing the HITRUST Threat Catalogue in March: A new resource to help healthcare organizations improve ...

February 7, 2017

IRS Issues W2 Phishing Scam Warning

Cybercriminals have been sending huge numbers of W2 phishing scam emails over the past few weeks. Tax season usually sees an increase in scam emails ...

February 2, 2017

New Zero Day WordPress Vulnerability: Thousands of Websites at Risk

A new zero day WordPress vulnerability has been discovered in the WordPress REST API that allows content injection and user privileges to be escalated. If ...

January 31, 2017

Beazley Report Details Biggest Security Threats in 2016

Beazley, a provider of cybersecurity insurance for businesses, has released a new report detailing the biggest security threats in 2016. For the report, Beazley analyzed ...

January 26, 2017

Sophos Launches Phish Threat Phishing Email Simulator

Leading cybersecurity firm Sophos has announced the launch of a new phishing attack simulation platform. Sophos Phish Threat is billed as the easiest-to-use phishing attack ...

January 20, 2017

Biomedical Research Labs Targeted with Ancient Mac Malware

Security researchers have discovered a new Mac malware that is being used in targeted attacks on biomedical research organizations. However, while the malicious code is ...

January 13, 2017

Disk-Wiping Malware Used to Wipe Virtual Desktops

Disk-wiping malware has been around for many years; however, a new variant of an old malware variant has been discovered that is being use to ...

January 11, 2017

IronScales Adds Automated Server-Side Remediation to its Anti-Phishing Solution

IronScales has improved its IronTraps™ phishing mitigation technology allowing security teams to automatically mitigate phishing attacks. Previously, the IronTraps™ solution required manual mitigation of threats. ...

January 4, 2017

Twitter Credit Card Phishing Scam Offers Quick Account Verification

A new Twitter credit card phishing scam has been detected by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. Twitter users are offered verified account status via native Twitter ads; ...

January 3, 2017

Switcher Trojan Infects Wi-Fi Routers via Android Mobiles

An incredibly dangerous new Trojan has been detected by Kaspersky Lab which is being used to attack Wi-Fi routers via Android devices. The new malware ...

December 22, 2016

Ticno Trojan Downloader Mimics Windows Dialog Box

A new Trojan downloader has been identified by Russian antivirus firm Dr. Web, which installs malicious payloads – currently adware – using a popup Windows ...

December 20, 2016

Over 400,000 New Phishing Webpages are Created Every Day

Cybercriminals are now creating record numbers of phishing sites and are using those sites to steal login and email credentials and credit card information. The ...

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