The North Korea-linked cyberthreat group known as Lazarus Group has added a new variant of the Dacls remote-access trojan (RAT) to its arsenal of spy gear, designed specifically for the Mac operating system. Dacls was first discovered last December targeting Windows and Linux platforms. The new version for Mac is now spreading via a trojanized two-factor authentication (2FA) application for macOS called MinaOTP, mostly used by Chinese speakers, according to a Malwarebytes analysis.
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Online learning platform Unacademy has suffered a data breach after a hacker gained access to their database and started selling the account information for close to 22 million users.
In response to reports of new phishing attacks using fake certificate error warnings with graphics and formatting lifted from Cisco Webex emails to steal users’ account credential, a cybersecurity expert offers perspective.
The coronavirus pandemic has drastically changed our daily routine. A large number of people have been urgently forced to work and spend their free time at home and now they are facing the challenges of organizing their workplace, keeping productive and staying focused. Another issue that the sudden change in circumstances has brought up is our approach to working in cooperation and making joint decisions. For understandable safety reasons, as contact with other people must be restricted, there is no way to come together for discussion like there was before. It has affected a variety of voting processes on domestic…
Government-backed hackers are attacking healthcare and research institutions in an effort to steal valuable information about efforts to contain the new coronavirus pandemic, the United Kingdom and the United States have said in a joint warning. In a statement on Tuesday, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said the hackers had targeted pharmaceutical companies, research organisations and local governments.
We are now, unquestionably, living in the age of big data. The vast amounts of traceable data generated daily can direct everything from digital transformation strategies to epidemiology. And nowhere is this more relevant than in healthcare, especially at a time where analysing COVID-19 data is crucial to tackling the global pandemic. The amount of health data being generated is growing at a 48% rate annually. This year alone, an estimated 2,314 exabytes of healthcare data will be produced. Rapid technological advancements are creating new challenges in the industry when it comes to data privacy. But, at the same time, the…
Security Boulevard reported that a massive data leak is hitting Nintendo as source code, demos, videos and other content for Wii, N64 and GameCube become available online, following the publishing of a steady stream of information on 4Chan in the past few weeks. The first information about a possible Nintendo data leak appeared on Dexerto, with reports of canceled games named “Pokemon Pink.” The source code was published on 4Chan, and it seemed to be the entire extent of the breach.
“The next generation of wireless technology is here. 5G will enhance connectivity across all platforms, providing more efficient, higher bandwidth connections which opens doors for new classes of devices or applications that primarily run across cellular networks. It is predicted that by 2024 more than 1.5 billion devices will be connected to 5G. The emergence and subsequent roll-out of 5G is bringing a complex blend of challenge and opportunity to organisations across all vertical sectors today. 5G will be a strong enabler in the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), given the speed and versatility it will bring to networks.…
Security teams spend significant amounts of time and effort to fend off phishing email attacks, yet the lengthy timeframes needed to manually manage the problem can pose heightened risks for many organizations. Three-quarters of organizations today (75 percent) cannot act on phishing intelligence automatically in real time, and nearly 90 percent cannot orchestrate phishing intelligence from multiple sources in real time in the context of their overall email security solutions, according to a recent survey report by Osterman Research. Despite the use of simulated phishing to train users, 47 percent of users still click on malicious links, revealing that even…
Fresenius, Europe’s largest private hospital operator and a major provider of dialysis products and services that are in such high demand thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been hit in a ransomware cyber-attack on its technology systems. The company said the incident had limited some of its operations, but that patient care continues.