A new cyber-scam collecting social media account logins is making its way through iOS devices, fooling users with its realistic-looking login process, which is really a video simulation. Unsuspecting victims are entering their Facebook credentials into…
Cryptojacking stole the limelight away from ransomware at the end of 2017, becoming a major cyberthreat that continued into 2018. On March 8, 2019 Coinhive, the service that enables websites around the world to use browser CPUs to mine Monero, will shu…
New platforms to clobber cybercrime
Two major announcements at this week’s RSA mark strident leaps forward in cybersecurity, and both rely on the same core principal — sharing knowledge. The combined efforts that make these cybersecurity tools so pote…
Cybersecurity attacks are a major global challenge of our age. Because winning in cybersecurity means having more threat intelligence than your adversaries, it makes sense for security companies to work together to help solve the major security problem…
In a blog post this week, the in-browser Monero mining service Coinhive announced it would discontinue service on March 8, 2019. “Some of you might have anticipated this, some of you will be surprised,” the post begins. It then goes on to explain how t…
All-in-one bots perform credential stuffing
Cybersecurity experts reported this week that for an eight-month period in 2018, retail websites were hit with 10 billion credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing is an automated attack that bombards…
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) reports that key internet structures have been under attack for some months now. “Public records indicate that there is a pattern of multifaceted attacks utilizing different methodologies,…
Presidents’ Day malvertising blitz
Cybersecurity researchers observed a swell of malicious ads flooding the internet over Presidents’ Day weekend, striking at a time when ad network employees were enjoying the three days off. With tech support slower …
Earlier this month, Google pushed an update for Nest Secure that enabled it to function as a Google Assistant smart speaker. The announcement surprised users not just because of the new feature, but because the news came with the revelation that a micr…
On Thursday, Apple released iOS 12.1.4, a patch for several security flaws including the FaceTime group chat vulnerability discovered by a 14-year-old. Also fixed are two zero-day vulnerabilities that had reportedly been actively exploited. All users a…