March 11, 2022 Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has identified the activities of a Chinese-backed hacking group known as APT31. The hackers target multiple Gmail users affiliated with the United States government via a phishing attack. The attack more...
March 11, 2022 Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a REvil ransomware member extricated to the U.S. will face trial for the Kaseya attack according to the Department of Justice. Vasinkyi, a 22-year-old Ukrainian national is said to be responsible for breaching more...
March 11, 2022 According to Abnormal Security analysts, attackers are using BazarBackdoor to target corporate victims. The goal here is to deploy Cobalt Strike or ransomware payloads. The threat actors use corporate contact forms to initiate communications in more...
March 11, 2022 Cybersecurity researchers at Sophos have uncovered a botnet called Qakbot. Qakbot can hijack email threads to spread itself to more victims. Qakbot which has been in use since 2008 is capable of delivering malware, ransomware, more...
March 9, 2022 Warnings to Linux and HP device administrators, Samsung confirms data theft and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, March 9th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Linux administrators more...
March 9, 2022 Microsoft has patched a Windows reset bug in its latest round of Patch Tuesday fixes. The patch fixes the issue that prevents users' data from being erased after a Windows 10 or 11 PC reset. more...
March 9, 2022 Thousands of users were unable to access Spotify and Discord, according to the outage tracking site Downdetector.com. The outage, which began on Tuesday, was associated with problems in the Google Cloud and was fixed by Google Cloud more...
March 8, 2022 Women in Western countries talk about the difficulties and rewards of having a career in cybersecurity. So do women in developing countries. For this year’s celebration of International Women’s Day, the Canadian-based siberXchange learning platform more...
March 8, 2022 Google has beefed up its internal cybersecurity knowledge as well as its ability to offer cybersecurity services to customers by buying threat intelligence specialist Mandiant for about US$5.4 billion. Assuming regulatory and shareholder approval, Mandiant more...
March 8, 2022 Ontario employers should use a broad definition of the term “employee electronic monitoring” if they don’t want to run afoul of proposed changes to provincial labour law, says a Toronto privacy lawyer. That, said Daniel more...
