News February 6, 2023

Are Threat Actors Using ChatGPT to Hack Your Network?

4 min read - Though the technology has only been widely available for a couple of months, everyone is talking about ChatGPT. If you are one of the few people unfamiliar with ChatGPT, it is an OpenAI language model with the “ability to generate…

News February 1, 2023

The White House on Quantum Encryption and IoT Labels

2 min read - A recent White House Fact Sheet outlined the current and future U.S. cybersecurity priorities. While most of the topics covered were in line with expectations, others drew more attention. The emphasis on critical infrastructure protection is clearly a top national…

News January 30, 2023

Malware-as-a-Service Flaunts Its Tally of Users and Victims

5 min read - As time passes, the security landscape keeps getting stranger and scarier. How long did the “not if, but when” mentality towards cyberattacks last — a few years, maybe? Now, security pros think in terms of how often will their organization…

News January 25, 2023

New Survey Shows Burnout May Lead to Attrition

2 min read - For many organizations and the cybersecurity industry as a whole, improving retention and reducing the skills gap is a top priority. Mimecast’s The State of Ransomware Readiness 2022: Reducing the Personal and Business Cost points to another growing concern —…

News January 23, 2023

Alleged FBI Database Breach Exposes Agents and InfraGard

4 min read - Recently the feds suffered a big hack, not once, but twice. First, the FBI-run InfraGard program suffered a breach. InfraGard aims to strengthen partnerships with the private sector to share information about cyber and physical threats. That organization experienced a…

News January 18, 2023

Google Ad Scam Makes Millions Using Fake Adult-Only Sites

4 min read - An advertising fraud scheme that utilized Google Ads and “pop-unders” on adult websites generated estimated millions of ad impressions on stolen content. The campaign was reported by Malwarebytes on December 20, and the scam raked in an estimated $275,000 per…

News January 16, 2023

Third-Party Risk Contributes to Healthcare Data Breaches

4 min read - Since 2009, the number of individuals affected by health data breaches in the U.S. has exceeded the country’s population of 331.9 million. As per federal statistics, this means many people have been victims of more than one incident. Unfortunately, the…

News January 11, 2023

Read Carefully: The Dangers of Punycode and Typosquatting

4 min read - Many phishing attacks pose as banks, and their efforts can be quite convincing. Everything in the email might look official, including the logo. But if you carefully examine the sender’s address, you can see it’s from an imposter. Now threat…

News January 4, 2023

New Federal Cybersecurity Requirements for Railway Operators

2 min read - Recently, the U.S. government has focused on increasing cybersecurity in industries that are vital to the country. After the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack shut down a critical fuel pipeline, which led to significant gas shortages, officials realized the importance of…

News December 28, 2022

Ukrainian Threat Actor Unmasked in Connection With Raccoon Malware

3 min read - On October 5, 2022, a newly unsealed federal grand jury indictment charged Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky, 26, for his alleged role in a global cyber operation known as Raccoon Infostealer. For years this malware has infected millions of computers, compromising…