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Hacking the Tax Code
PRIVACY PRIVACY The tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input—financial information for the year—and produces an output: the amount of tax owed. It’s incredibly complex code; there are a bazillion details and exceptions and special cases. It consists of…
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Fifth of ICS Bugs Have No Patch Available
PRIVACY PRIVACY Some industrial systems have been exposed for three years Read More
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Refund and Invoice Scams Surge in Q4
PRIVACY PRIVACY Avast also warns of increase in tech support fraud Read More
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Top cybersecurity M&A deals for 2023
PRIVACY PRIVACY Uncertainty and instability marked the end of 2022 for many in the tech sector, a trend that bled into the beginning of 2023. Following on the heels of a drought in IT talent came mass layoffs at many of the world’s biggest tech companies as predictions of recession loomed and war in Ukraine…
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New Threat Group Reviews Screenshots Before Striking
PRIVACY PRIVACY Threat actor has been dubbed TA866 by Proofpoint Read More
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U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group
PRIVACY PRIVACY Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “Trickbot,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. The U.S. Department of the Treasury says the Trickbot group is associated with…
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VMware ESXi server ransomware evolves, after recovery script released
PRIVACY PRIVACY The FBI and CISA have released a recovery script for the global ESXiArgs ransomware campaign targeting VMware ESXi servers, but the ransomware has since been updated to elude former attempts at remediation. Read More
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#SOOCon23: Open Source Tools can Automate SBOM Requirements
PRIVACY PRIVACY Open source enterprise software users presented tools to automate SBOMs during the State of Open Con 23 conference in London Read More
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UK/US cybercrime crackdown sees 7 ransomware criminals sanctioned
PRIVACY PRIVACY A UK/US campaign to tackle international cybercrime has seen Seven Russian cybercriminals linked to a notorious ransomware group exposed and sanctioned. The sanctions were announced today by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) alongside the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). This follows a lengthy investigation…
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HTML smuggling campaigns impersonate well-known brands to deliver malware
PRIVACY PRIVACY Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers have cited an increased prevalence of HTML smuggling activity whereby cybercriminal groups abuse the versatility of HTML in combination with social engineering to distribute malware. The firm has detailed four recent HTML smuggling campaigns attempting to lure users into saving and opening malicious payloads, impersonating well-known brands such as Adobe…