Ionut Ilascu is freelancing as a technology writer with a focus on all things cybersecurity. The topics he writes about include malware, vulnerabilities, exploits and security defenses, as well as research and innovation in information security. His work has been published by Bitdefender, Netgear, The Security Ledger and Softpedia.
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware incidents targeting educational institutions, urging them to follow the recently updated recommendations for mitigating malware attacks.
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Actors behind a pill scam campaign are trying a new technique, betting on unconventional representation of URLs in spam messages to keep them undetected by email protection systems and URL block lists.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced today charges against five Chinese nationals fort cyberattacks on more than 100 companies, some of them being attributed to state-backed hacking group APT41.
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The reason for the recent notification from Staples to some of its customers about exposed order details was caused by insufficient protections for retrieving shopper information from current and past orders.
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As education institutions across the world moved to online learning, cyber threat disruptions have amplified more than ever. Malware, vulnerability exploits, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), phishing attacks have all struck this sector, increasing in frequency over the past two months.
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The list of native executables in Windows that can download or run malicious code keeps growing as another one has been reported recently.
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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the U.K. has released a guideline to help companies implement a vulnerability disclosure process or improve it if one is already set up.
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Giant office retail company Staples informed some of its customers that data related to their orders has been accessed without authorization.
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Palo Alto Networks has fixed a new critical vulnerability affecting multiple versions of PAN-OS, the operating system affecting its next-generation firewalls.
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Threat researchers investigating phishing attacks encountered a less common technique in spear-phishing aimed at a senior executive at a top American company.
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Malware researchers discovered a new threat that they named CDRThief targeting a specific Voice over IP system to steal call data records (CDR) from telephone exchange equipment.
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Using standard tactics, the operators of ProLock ransomware were able to deploy a large number of attacks over the past six months, averaging close to one target every day.
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A vulnerability exists in certain implementations of Bluetooth 4.0 through 5.0 which allows an attacker to overwrite or lower the strength of the pairing key, giving them access to authenticated services.
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In a recent attack, cybercrime group TeamTNT relied on a legitimate tool to avoid deploying malicious code on compromised cloud infrastructure and still have a good grip on it.
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A reverse engineer discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in most Windows 10 editions that allows creating files in restricted areas of the operating system.
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