News
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"New Tool Skewers Socially Engineered Attack Ads"Online ads are often leveraged in personal cyberattacks, which can lead to the download of unwanted software and other malicious files.
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"Researchers Used Wi-Fi Signals to See Through Walls. Game-Changing Breakthrough? Or Privacy Nightmare Waiting to Happen?"Using Wi-Fi signals, scientists have developed a technology that enables people to see objects and read letters through walls. The system, developed by UC Santa Barbara researchers, traces the edges of objects on the opposite side of solid barriers.
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"NSA, US Federal Agencies Advise on Deepfake Threats"The National Security Agency (NSA) and US federal agency partners have issued new guidance regarding deepfakes.
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"Playing Hide and Seek with a New Breed of Malware Threatening Millions of Users"Georgia Tech's Cyber Forensics Innovation (CyFI) Lab discovered that Web App Engaged (WAE) malware has increased by 226 percent since 2020.
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Cybersecurity Snapshots ArchiveBrief articles on current cybercriminal activities. They are indexed below.
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"Air Canada Says Employee Information Accessed in Cyberattack"Air Canada recently announced that the personal information of some employees was accessed in a recent cyberattack.
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"High-Severity Flaws Uncovered in Atlassian Products and ISC BIND Server"Atlassian and the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in their products that could be exploited for Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Remote Code Execution (RCE).
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"Hotel Hackers Redirect Guests to Fake Booking Website to Steal Cards"Researchers have found a multi-step information-stealing campaign in which hackers infiltrate the systems of hotels, booking sites, and travel agencies, and then use their access to take customers' financial data.
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"Ransomware Cyber Insurance Claims up by 27%"According to Coalition, the frequency of cyber insurance claims rose by 12 percent in the first half of 2023. Early in 2023, Coalition discovered that the frequency and severity of business claims increased across all revenue bands.
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"Mysterious 'Sandman' APT Targets Telecom Sector With Novel Backdoor"The list of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors against which telecommunications companies must secure their data and networks now includes an additional sophisticated adversary.