by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 15, 2025 | IT Security
Google has confirmed that hackers created a fraudulent account in its Law Enforcement Request System (LERS) platform that law enforcement uses to submit official data requests to the company “We have identified that a fraudulent account was created in our system...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 15, 2025 | IT Security
Failing to encrypt sensitive data leaves you wide open to attack. During the recent SonicWall attack spree, intruders bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) in at least one case, because a user’s recovery codes were left sitting in a plaintext file on their...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 15, 2025 | IT Security
Partner Content From the moment users log onto their machines, access rights shape their experience. Access rights determine which apps they can run, which directories they can open, and what information they can retrieve. Yet despite their crucial role in IT...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 14, 2025 | IT Security
Criminals appear to be moving cyber-scam centers to vulnerable countries. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) last week warned it had found “indications of scam center activity, including SIM cards and satellite internet devices” at a hotel in...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 14, 2025 | IT Security
The FBI has issued a FLASH alert warning that two threat clusters, tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395, are compromising organizations’ Salesforce environments to steal data and extort victims. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 14, 2025 | IT Security
A newly discovered phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, named VoidProxy, targets Microsoft 365 and Google accounts, including those protected by third-party single sign-on (SSO) providers such as Okta. The platform uses adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) tactics to...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 14, 2025 | IT Security
With the end of Windows 10’s regular support cycle fast approaching, and a good five years since the COVID pandemic spurred a wave of hardware replacements to support remote work, many IT departments are in the process of refreshing their fleets. But what they...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 12, 2025 | IT Security
A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched vulnerability to bypass Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot on unrevoked Windows systems, making it the fourth publicly known bootkit capable of punching through the feature...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 12, 2025 | IT Security
Samsung has fixed a critical flaw that affects its Android devices – but not before attackers found and exploited the bug, which could allow remote code execution on affected devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-21043, affects Android OS versions 13,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 12, 2025 | IT Security
A recently discovered ransomware strain called HybridPetya can bypass the UEFI Secure Boot feature to install a malicious application on the EFI System Partition. HybridPetya appears inspired by the destructive Petya/NotPetya malware that encrypted computers and...
