The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday added four companies, including Israel-based spyware companies NSO Group and Candiru, to a list of entities engaging in “malicious cyber activities.” The agency said …
BlackMatter Ransomware Reportedly Shutting Down; Latest Analysis Released
An analysis of new samples of BlackMatter ransomware for Windows and Linux has revealed the extent to which the operators have continually added new features and encryption capabilities in successive …
Mekotio Banking Trojan Resurfaces with New Attacking and Stealth Techniques
The operators behind the Mekotio banking trojan have resurfaced with a shift in its infection flow so as to stay under the radar and evade security software, while staging nearly …
Product Overview – Cynet Centralized Log Management
For most organizations today, the logs produced by their security tools and environments provide a mixed bag. On the one hand, they can be a trove of valuable data on …
Facebook to Shut Down Facial Recognition System and Delete Billions of Records
Facebook’s newly-rebranded parent company Meta on Tuesday announced plans to discontinue its decade-old “Face Recognition” system and delete a massive trove of more than a billion users’ facial recognition templates as part …
Alert! Hackers Exploiting GitLab Unauthenticated RCE Flaw in the Wild
A now-patched critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in GitLab’s web interface has been detected as actively exploited in the wild, cybersecurity researchers warn, rendering a large number of internet-facing …
Google Warns of New Android 0-Day Vulnerability Under Active Targeted Attacks
Google has rolled out its monthly security patches for Android with fixes for 39 flaws, including a zero-day vulnerability that it said is being actively exploited in the wild in …
Google to Pay Hackers $31,337 for Exploiting Patched Linux Kernel Flaws
Google on Monday announced that it will pay security researchers to find exploits using vulnerabilities, previously remediated or otherwise, over the next three months as part of a new bug …
Securing SaaS Apps — CASB vs. SSPM
There is often confusion between Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) and SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) solutions, as both are designed to address security issues within SaaS applications. CASBs protect …
Critical Flaws Uncovered in Pentaho Business Analytics Software
Multiple vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Hitachi Vantara’s Pentaho Business Analytics software that could be abused by malicious actors to upload arbitrary data files and even execute arbitrary code on …