A fourth suspect has been arrested today for his role in the Twitter hack last year that gave attackers access to the company’s internal network exposing high-profile accounts to hijacking. The United States Department of Justice announced that Joseph O’Connor, a 22-year old UK national, was detained in Spain on…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an alert today about more than a dozen malware samples found on exploited Pulse Secure devices that are largely undetected by antivirus products. Since at least June 2020, Pulse Secure devices at U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and various private…
DuckDuckGo is rolling out an email privacy feature that strips incoming messages of trackers that can help profile you for better profiling and ad targeting. Users of the service get a free “@duck.com” email address that cleans messages of trackers and forwards them to your normal inbox. Tracker-free emails from…
Security researchers investigating a bug that crashed the Wifi service on iPhones found that it could be exploited for remote code execution without user interaction. When initially disclosed, the bug could disable an iPhone’s WiFi connection after trying to connect to a network with a name (SSID) that included a…
The United States government has taken two more active measures to fight and defend against malicious cyber activities affecting the country’s business and critical infrastructure sectors. One initiative is a website with resources from across the federal government designed to help businesses and communities from ransomware attacks. The other is…
Security researchers caught a new phishing campaign that tried to deliver the BazarBackdoor malware by using the multi-compression technique and masking it as an image file. The multi-compression or nested archive method is not new but gained in popularity recently as it can trick email security gateways into mislabeling malicious…