WordPress Plugins Exploited in Ongoing Attack, Researchers Warn
Researchers warn users of several plugins to update as vulnerabilities are being actively exploited to redirect website visitor traffic.
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Hacker Ordered to Pay Back Nearly £1 Million to Phishing Victims
A prolific hacker who carried out phishing scams against hundreds of companies worldwide has been ordered to pay back more than $1.1 million (over £922,000) worth of cryptocurrencies to his victims. Grant West, a 27-year-old resident of Kent, England, targeted several well-known companies around the world since 2015 to obtain the financial data of tens of thousands of customers and then sold
Crown Sterling sues Black Hat
Alright, so a BH sponsor gave a crypto talk that seem to have unnerved some people at the conference and
Read moreQualys Launches Free App for IT Asset Discovery and Inventory
Qualys’s Chairman and CEO, Philippe Courtot talks about changes in the security landscape he’s witnessed during the company’s 20-year lifespan, as well as what motivated the vendor to give away its Global IT Asset Discovery and Inventory app for free.
Read moreIBM Announce Quantum Safe Encryption
Techniques too tough for quantum computing solutions will be part of public cloud and tape storage encryption.
Read more80 Charged in Massive BEC Operation Bust
A group of mostly Nigerian nationals attempted to steal $46 million through business email compromise and romance scams, the FBI reports.
Read moreNews Wrap: Linux Utility Backdoor, Steam Zero Day Disclosure Drama
From a backdoor placed in the Webmin utility to vulnerability disclosure drama around zero-days in Valve’s Steam gaming clients, Threatpost breaks down this week’s top stories.
Read moreVirtual World of Containers, VMs Creates New Security Challenges
Containers, virtual machines, and the advent of DevOps as a software creation tool all put new pressures on organizations’ security strength, according to Dan Hubbard, CEO of Lacework. Cloud’s ability to offer scale, capacity, and processing power may even exacerbate the vulnerabilities unless properly managed, he adds.
Read moreVMware to Buy Carbon Black for $2.1B
Virtual machine giant’s big cloud move includes plans to shell out $2.7 billion in stock transactions for Pivotal Software.
Read moreThreatConnect Users Can Access Near Real-Time Finished Intelligence And Technical Data From Flashpoint.
ThreatConnect, Inc.®, provider of the industry’s only intelligence-driven security operations platform, is proud to announce its updated integration with Flashpoint, the leader in Business Risk Intelligence (BRI). With this latest integration, joint customers can now leverage the Flashpoint API to import Finished Intelligence reports, Risk Intelligence Observables (RIOs), and Technical Indicators into ThreatConnect. The ThreatConnect […]
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