Inflation, cryptocurrency market volatility, and the ability to invest in defenses all influence the impact and severity of a ransomware attack, according to incident response efforts and ransomware negotiators.

Malicious actors are exploiting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which are used to style and format the layout of web pages, to bypass spam filters and track users’ actions. That’s according to new findings from Cisco Talos, which said such malicious activities can compromise a victim’s security and privacy. “The features available in CSS allow attackers…

From sophisticated nation-state campaigns to stealthy malware lurking in unexpected places, this week’s cybersecurity landscape is a reminder that attackers are always evolving. Advanced threat groups are exploiting outdated hardware, abusing legitimate tools for financial fraud, and finding new ways to bypass security defenses. Meanwhile, supply chain threats are on the rise, with open-source

The latest Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report found that sensitive data is found in 66% of cloud storage buckets. This data is vulnerable to ransomware attacks. The SANS Institute recently reported that these attacks can be performed by abusing the cloud provider’s storage security controls and default settings. “In just the past…

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an incident in which the popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files was compromised to leak secrets from repositories using the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflow. The incident involved the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action, which is used in over 23,000 repositories. It’s used to track and retrieve all

The chip maker’s Tiber Secure Federated AI service creates a secure tunnel between AI models on remote servers and data sources on origin systems.

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a malicious campaign targeting users of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with bogus libraries masquerading as “time” related utilities, but harboring hidden functionality to steal sensitive data such as cloud access tokens. Software supply chain security firm ReversingLabs said it discovered two sets of packages totaling 20 of them….

Microsoft detailed a sophisticated campaign that relies on a social engineering technique, “ClickFix,” in which a phisher uses security verification like captcha to give the target a false sense of safety.

A pair of researchers plan on detailing effective tools to dig into the effectiveness of vehicle cybersecurity without breaking the bank.

Law enforcement discovered admin credentials on the suspect’s computer for an online repository hosted on the Dark Web that stored source code for multiple versions of the LockBit builder.