Category: Cyber Security

Venmo, quick and convenient. A great way to pay back a friend or split the cost of a meal. Yet its ease of use and popularity has made it a hunting ground for scammers.  Venmo scams come in all shapes, and many of them look like variations of email phishing and text scams. The scammers […]

At Cisco, we pride ourselves on our world-class partner ecosystem, and we go to great lengths to recognize how our partners provide value to customers and support digital transformation. I encourage you to read this new report from IDC: Credentials, Proof of Competency Among Key Success Metrics for Customers While each customer was looking to […]

A team of academic researchers show that a new set of attacks called ‘VoltSchemer’ can inject voice commands to manipulate a smartphone’s voice assistant through the magnetic field emitted by an off-the-shelf wireless charger. VoltSchemer can also be used to cause physical damage to the mobile device and to heat items close to the charger to a […]

Feb 20, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Data Protection The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) on Tuesday confirmed that it obtained LockBit’s source code as well as a wealth of intelligence pertaining to its activities and their affiliates as part of a dedicated task force called Operation Cronos. “Some of the data on LockBit’s systems belonged to victims […]

A threat actor is using malware droppers disguised as legitimate mobile apps on Google’s Play store to distribute a dangerous banking Trojan dubbed “Anatsa” to Android users in several European countries. The campaign has been ongoing for at least four months and is the latest salvo from the operators of the malware, which first surfaced […]

The U.K. National Crime Agency’s Cyber Division, the FBI and international partners have cut off ransomware threat actors’ access to LockBit’s website, which has been used as a large ransomware-as-a-service storefront. What is the LockBit ransomware group? According to CISA, LockBit was the most common type of ransomware deployed globally in 2023. LockBit ransomware could […]

The dystopian 2020s, ’30s, and ’40s depicted in novels and movies written and produced decades ago blessedly seem very far off from the timeline of reality. Yes, we have refrigerators that suggest grocery lists, and we have devices in our pockets that control seemingly every function of our homes. But there aren’t giant robots roaming […]