Warning to US Retail: ‘Scattered Spider’ Targets YOU (with DragonForce Ransomware)
Arachnid alarm: Three major British retailers recently attacked, resulting in huge damage. Now we see the self-same scum spotlighting stores in the States ...
ARMO: io_uring Interface Creates Security ‘Blind Spot’ in Linux
Researchers from security firm ARMO developed a POC rootkit called Curing that showed how the io_uring interface in Linux could be exploited by bad actors to bypass system calls, creating what they ...
App Stores OK’ed VPNs Run by China PLA
Bad Apple: Chinese firm banned by the U.S. is the shady entity behind a clutch of free VPN apps—with over a million downloads ...
Google Makes Sending Encrypted Emails Easier for Gmail Users
Google is making it easier for Gmail users to send end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) emails to anyone by adopting a process that does away with complex options like S/MIME and instead uses encrypted ...
Fifth Circuit Strikes Down “Geofence” Warrants – Conflict With Fourth Circuit
Geofence warrants are a relatively new tool that allows law enforcement to obtain location data from devices within a specified geographic area during a specific time frame ...
Google Agrees to Acquire Wiz in $30B Deal
Google today revealed it has acquired Wiz, a provider of a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) for $32 billion cash after initially being rebuffed last year ...
The Buddy System: Why Google is Finally Killing SMS Authentication
Like the Buddy System in The Simpsons, SMS authentication was only foolproof if everything went right. But when both “buddies” could be compromised at the same time, the entire system was doomed ...
Lines Between Nation-State and Cybercrime Groups Disappearing: Google
Threat researchers with Google are saying that the lines between nation-state actors and cybercrime groups are blurring, noting that gangs backed by China, Russia, and others are using financially motivated hackers and ...
DMARC Adoption among U.S. and Canada Retailers
In our final installment of DMARC adoption research among retailers, we’re taking a look at the domain security stance of the United States' and Canada's top retailers ...
DMARC Adoption among European Retailers
In this installment of our DMARC adoption research, we’re focusing on how the Europe retailers are protecting their domains from phishing exploits with DMARC ...
