Employees screw up frequently. They fall for phishing attacks, or click on links they shouldn’t click on. And in some cases, funds get wired to fraudulent accounts. But how often have you read about an employee having to replace stolen funds? WKBN in Ohio reports: A Trumbull County judge has ordered County Auditor Martha Yoder…
Kept in the Dark Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden By Mark Keierleber This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. This article is published in partnership with WIRED…
Bitsight has discovered a BadBox botnet consisting of over 190,000 Android devices, mainly Yandex smart TVs and Hisense smartphones. The post Botnet of 190,000 BadBox-Infected Android Devices Discovered appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new sophisticated malware called CoffeeLoader that’s designed to download and execute secondary payloads. The malware, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz, shares behavioral similarities with another known malware loader known as SmokeLoader. “The purpose of the malware is to download and execute second-stage payloads while evading
North Korean threat actors behind the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign have been observed dropping a new JavaScript malware called OtterCookie. Contagious Interview (aka DeceptiveDevelopment) refers to a persistent attack campaign that employs social engineering lures, with the hacking crew often posing as recruiters to trick individuals looking for potential job opportunities into
Ivanti has released patches for multiple vulnerabilities in Endpoint Manager (EPM), including four critical-severity flaws. The post Ivanti Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Endpoint Manager appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Threat hunters are calling attention to a new campaign that has targeted Fortinet FortiGate firewall devices with management interfaces exposed on the public internet. “The campaign involved unauthorized administrative logins on management interfaces of firewalls, creation of new accounts, SSL VPN authentication through those accounts, and various other configuration changes,” cybersecurity firm
