According to security researchers at Egress, email security remained top of mind for cybersecurity professionals in 2023 as over nine in ten (94%) cyber decision-makers had to deal with a phishing attack.  This is up 2% from the previous year.

Security researchers at Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have used artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing to discover a brand new substance which could reduce lithium use in batteries.

Security researchers at Bishop Fox have found over 178,000 SonicWall next-generation firewalls (NGFW) with the management interface exposed online are vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) and potential remote code execution (RCE) attacks.

Juniper Networks has recently published more than two dozen security advisories to inform customers about well over 100 vulnerabilities affecting its products, with a majority of the flaws impacting third-party components.

Netscout has announced that malicious actors are increasingly abusing free cloud services, which has led to a significant spike in botnet scanning activity.  Netscout typically sees 10,000-20,000 IP addresses conducting internet scans every day.

Europol has recently announced that a 29-year-old man in Ukraine was arrested for using hacked accounts to create 1 million virtual servers used to mine $2 million in cryptocurrency.

In a recent study, a team of LG Electronics researchers developed a new protocol for Quantum Secure Direct Communication (QSDC), which aims to improve the security and transmission rate of quantum communication systems.

A team of researchers at the University of Copenhagen is developing a language for discussing weaknesses in Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, which could lead to the creation of guidelines describing how algorithms should be tested.

SentinelLabs warns of FBot, a sophisticated Python-based malware that targets cloud and payment services.

A new malware attack campaign exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink, two technologies used for processing large data sets and data streams.

The use and power of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to commit payment fraud has grown. Biometric-dependent voice-based payment method usage has increased, making generative AI a greater threat.

Popular athleisure clothing brand Halara recently announced that it is investigating a data breach after the alleged data of almost 950,000 customers was leaked on a hacking forum.