U.S. intelligence agency reports conclude that Russia and Iran tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election via disinformation campaigns, but found "no indication that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process," including voting results.
From Thursday through Monday, Check Point Research tracked a tenfold increase in the number of global attempts to exploit vulnerable on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers as organizations race to install patches.
“Passwordless” has become the holy grail for user authentication. But there are different interpretations of what passwordless is – and is not. Tom “TJ” Jermoluk, CEO of Beyond Identity, addresses some of the myths,the realities and how passwordless is deployed today.
Fresh ransomware targeting an unpatched Microsoft Exchange email server flaw appears to have been rushed to market by criminals trying to capitalize on new opportunities before the competition stepped in, resulting in relatively shoddy attack code, security firm Sophos reports.
Microsoft has released an interim mitigation tool designed to help smaller organizations take quick action to prevent attacks that exploit the unpatched ProxyLogon flaw in on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers.
To mitigate the fraud risks posed by synthetic IDs, banks should use consumers' devices to help with authentication, says Karen Boyer, vice president of financial crimes and fraud intelligence at People’s United Bank, based in Connecticut.
He started his cybersecurity career as a pen tester. As a result, Gong CISO Jack Leidecker retains an affinity for the tech community and emerging tools. He shares insight on this passion and his drive to ensure security’s role in business enablement.
As the Biden administration makes final preparations to respond to the attacks against SolarWinds, it's been confronted by a second major cyberthreat: the hacking of Microsoft Exchange servers throughout the U.S. The response to this incident, however, will likely be much different.
Ahead of presenting a long-term review of national security strategy in Parliament on Tuesday, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a statement calling for a boost to the country’s capacity to conduct cyberattacks on foreign adversaries.
U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash, has reintroduced a bill that would create a national-wide data privacy standard that in its latest incarnation makes an attempt to placate Republicans. The bill, if passed, would replace a patchwork of current state laws.
U.S. authorities have extended the crackdown on the Sky ECC cryptophone service by charging the CEO of parent company Sky Global and its alleged main distributor - both Canadians - with running an "illicit secret communications network" for criminals and hiding profits via shell companies and cryptocurrency.
A new malware spam email campaign is delivering the NanoCore remote access Trojan as a malicious Adobe icon to infect its victims, a new report by security firm Trustwave finds. The malware is designed to steal passwords and emails.
Attackers wielding DearCry - aka DoejoCrypt - ransomware have begun to exploit the serious proxy-logon flaw in unpatched versions of Microsoft Exchange running on premises. The vulnerability is one of four zero-day flaws patched last week by Microsoft, which APT attackers began exploiting in January.
How can crypto banks mitigate the risks of money laundering, synthetic ID fraud and mule accounts? Aaron Lint, CISO at Anchorage Digital Bank, says biometrics and "repeatable cryptography, especially in the form of digital signatures,” can play key roles.
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