Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles


CalypsoAI Raises $23 Million for AI Security Tech

27 June 2023
The company, founded by DARPA, NASA, and DoD veterans, said the Series A-1 financing was led by Paladin Capital Group. Existing investors including Lockheed Martin Ventures, new investors Hakluyt Capital and Expeditions Fund, also took part.

Chrome 114 Update Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities

27 June 2023
Google this week announced a new Chrome 114 update that patches a total of four vulnerabilities, including three high-severity bugs reported by external security researchers.

The potent cyber adversary threatening to further inflame Iranian politics

27 June 2023
The latest hack claimed by GhyamSarnegouni demonstrates the depth of information that hackers and hacktivists are accessing in Iran's internal politics, with potentially significant implications for national security.

EncroChat Bust Leads to 6,558 Criminals' Arrests and $985 Million Seizure

27 June 2023
Europol said that a subsequent joint investigation initiated by French and Dutch authorities intercepted and analyzed over 115 million conversations that took place over the encrypted messaging platform between no less than 60,000 users.

Fort Worth Government Officials Confirm Cyber Incident but Deny Leak of Sensitive Information

27 June 2023
On Friday, a hacking group named SiegedSec took to Telegram to claim that it stole about 500,000 files from the government of the city, which has more than 935,000 residents.

Anatsa Android Trojan Now Steals Banking Information From Users in US, UK

27 June 2023
According to researchers at ThreatFabric, who have been tracking the malicious activity, the attackers are distributing their malware via the Play Store, Android's official app store, and already have over 30,000 installations via this method alone.

Beyond Asset Discovery: How Attack Surface Management Prioritizes Vulnerability Remediation

27 June 2023
As the business environment becomes increasingly connected, organizations’ attack surfaces continue to expand, making it challenging to map and secure both known and unknown assets. In particular, unknown assets present security challenges related to shadow IT, misconfigurations, ineffective scan coverage, among others. Given attack surface sprawl and evolving threats, many organizations are

EncroChat Bust Leads to 6,558 Criminals' Arrests and €900 Million Seizure

27 June 2023
Europol on Tuesday announced that the takedown of EncroChat in July 2020 led to 6,558 arrests worldwide and the seizure of €900 million in illicit criminal proceeds. The law enforcement agency said that a subsequent joint investigation initiated by French and Dutch authorities intercepted and analyzed over 115 million conversations that took place over the encrypted messaging platform between no

Malvertising: A stealthy precursor to infostealers and ransomware attacks

27 June 2023
Malvertising attacks are on the rise, with over 800 related attacks reported in 2023 alone. Malvertising often delivers infostealer malware that steals user credentials, which are then sold to ransomware actors for network infiltration.

Anatsa Banking Trojan Targeting Users in US, UK, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

27 June 2023
A new Android malware campaign has been observed pushing the Anatsa banking trojan to target banking customers in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since the start of March 2023. "The actors behind Anatsa aim to steal credentials used to authorize customers in mobile banking applications and perform Device-Takeover Fraud (DTO) to initiate fraudulent transactions," ThreatFabric 

Widespread BEC attacks threaten European organizations

27 June 2023
European organizations experienced a greater volume and frequency of BEC attacks over the last year, as compared to organizations in the United States, according to Abnormal Security.

Man charged in US for running 'Monopoly' darknet drug market

27 June 2023
According to a U.S. Department of Justice announcement, the suspect, Milomir Desnica, is charged with facilitating $18 million in illegal drug transactions through his website.

New Fortinet's FortiNAC Vulnerability Exposes Networks to Code Execution Attacks

27 June 2023
Fortinet has rolled out updates to address a critical security vulnerability impacting its FortiNAC network access control solution that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. Tracked as CVE-2023-33299, the flaw is rated 9.6 out of 10 for severity on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as a case of Java untrusted object deserialization. "A deserialization of untrusted data

Security leaders say cloud platform misconfiguration is biggest threat

26 June 2023
A new survey highlights that security professionals view misconfiguration of cloud platforms or improper setup ranks as the most significant security threat.

Researchers Find Way to Recover Cryptographic Keys by Analyzing LED Flickers

26 June 2023
"Cryptographic computations performed by the CPU change the power consumption of the device which affects the brightness of the device's power LED," researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Cornell University said in a study.

81% of organizations have implemented policies around generative AI

26 June 2023
Despite security concerns about generative artificial intelligence, businesses are looking to implement the technology within their organizations.

Sweetwater Union High School District confirms data breach caused outages in February

26 June 2023
The district says their investigation determined in mid-May that some personal information from current and former employees, their dependents, students, and families, was potentially accessed by attackers from the district's network.

Researchers Find Way to Recover Cryptographic Keys by Analyzing LED Flickers

26 June 2023
In what's an ingenious side-channel attack, a group of academics has found that it's possible to recover secret keys from a device by analyzing video footage of its power LED. "Cryptographic computations performed by the CPU change the power consumption of the device which affects the brightness of the device's power LED," researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Cornell

MOVEit Breach Exposes Sensitive Data on New York City Public Schools

26 June 2023
A MOVEit cyberattack has exposed sensitive data on around 45 thousand New York City Public School students - as well as Department of Education staff and service providers.

Cybercriminals target high-profit companies: AEI

26 June 2023
Cybercriminals tend to strike highly profitable companies, those holding abundant cash, and organizations that spend generously on advertising, according to an American Enterprise Institute study of cyberattacks from January 1999 until January 2022.