In a historic prisoner exchange between Belarus, Germany, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, and the U.S., two Russian nationals serving time for cybercrime activities have been freed and repatriated to their country. This includes Roman Valerevich Seleznev and Vladislav Klyushin, who are part of a group of eight people who have been swapped back to Russia in […]
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Cybersecurity companies are warning about an uptick in the abuse of Clouflare’s TryCloudflare free service for malware delivery. The activity, documented by both eSentire and Proofpoint, entails the use of TryCloudflare to create a one-time tunnel that acts as a conduit to relay traffic from an attacker-controlled server to a local machine through Cloudflare’s infrastructure. […]
The vast global Domain Name System (DNS) is so fundamental to the way the web works that service providers and their customers are sure to configure and manage it carefully. That’s the theory — now for the reality. In a small but far from harmless number of cases, the global DNS system is being negligently […]
By injecting malicious bytecode into interpreters for VBScript, Python, and Lua, researchers found they can circumvent malicious code detection. Go to Source Author: Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer
Law firms make the perfect target for extortion, so it’s no wonder that ransomware attackers target them and demand multimillion dollar ransoms. Go to Source Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer
Everyone knows now how a flawed update crashed 8.5 million computers running the Windows version of CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity software — but what does the failure of one company’s software testing regime mean for the IT industry as a whole? Experts and analysts say that the idiosyncrasies of the technology sector mean it could easily […]
Researchers say the attacks are easy to perform, difficult to contact, nearly unrecognizable, and “entirely preventable.” Go to Source Author: Dark Reading Staff
Twilio has finally killed off its Authy for Desktop application, forcibly logging users out of the desktop application. […] Go to Source Author: Lawrence Abrams
The leader of a tech support fraud scheme was sentenced to seven years in prison after tricking at least 6,500 victims and generating more than $6 million. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
Threat actors uploaded malicious Python packages to the PyPI repository and promoted them through the StackExchange online question and answer platform. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas