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[ad_1] The UK’s information commissioner has called for an immediate end to the use of excel spreadsheets to publish Freedom of Information (FOI) data. The data protection regulator issued an advisory notice yesterday to all public authorities in the wake of a hugely damaging leak at... Continue reading

[ad_1] The Android banking Trojan Zanubis has taken on a new guise, posing as the official app for the Peruvian governmental organization SUNAT (Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas y de Administración Tributaria).  Originally detected in August 2022, this malware targets financial and cryptocurrency users in Peru... Continue reading

[ad_1] Booking.com users have become the focus of a new, large-scale phishing campaign. Discovered by Perception Point and discussed in an advisory published on Wednesday, the campaign follows a methodical four-step process. To initiate their scheme, the attackers gain unauthorized access to hotel systems, effectively... Continue reading

[ad_1] The Budworm advanced persistent threat (APT) group, also known as LuckyMouse, Emissary Panda or APT27, has once again demonstrated its active development of cyber-espionage tools.  In August 2023, security researchers from Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team, a part of Broadcom, uncovered Budworm’s use of an updated... Continue reading

[ad_1] One US lawmaker has warned that the impending government shutdown will put critical cyber workers out of action, leaving Americans exposed to damaging cyber-attacks. Democratic Congresswoman Rep. Shontel Brown made the remarks during a Joint Subcommittee Hearing on Ransomware on September 27, 2023, which... Continue reading

[ad_1] The US and Japanese authorities have urged multi-nationals to consider implementing zero trust models to mitigate a sophisticated Chinese state-backed cyber-espionage operation. The advisory was issued yesterday by the NSA, FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Japan National Police Agency (NPA) and... Continue reading

[ad_1] Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks in the healthcare sector have seen a 279% increase this year, shows a new report published by Abnormal Security. The data also suggests a 167% increase in advanced email attacks, including BEC, credential phishing, malware and extortion. Further, the average... Continue reading

[ad_1] In a recent development following the recent data leak from Sony, the notorious ransomware syndicate Ransomed.vc has targeted Japan’s largest telecommunication giant, NTT Docomo. According to an advisory published by Resecurity on Tuesday, Ransomed.vc is demanding a ransom of over $1m from NTT Docomo,... Continue reading

[ad_1] Two new security flaws in the popular Simple Membership plugin for WordPress, affecting versions 4.3.4 and below, have been identified, leading to potential privilege escalation issues.  With over 50,000 active installations, the plugin developed by smp7 and wp.insider is widely used for custom membership management... Continue reading