cybersecurity threats
Hackers posing as Ukraine’s Security Service infect 100 govt PCs
Attackers impersonating the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) have used malicious spam emails to target and compromise systems belonging to the country’s government agencies. On Monday, the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) disclosed that the attackers successfully infected over 100 computers with AnonVNC malware. Some samples were signed using the code signing certificate […]
1 in 5 companies say state-sponsored attacks try to penetrate supply chain
Roughly one-fifth of enterprise IT administrators have found themselves the target of a state-sponsored attack, according to a survey from HP Wolf. The survey found that of 800 respondents in the IT industry, worldwide 19% reported being the target of an attack on networks, PCs, and internet-facing printers in an apparent effort to penetrate the […]
Most companies are afraid of unseen cybersecurity threats
Companies are afraid of the threat posed by unknown threat actors and exploits, according to research from security monitoring specialist Critical Start, which said that, by and large, administrators are more afraid of what they don’t know than flaws and attacks that are already public. The study, which polled some 1,000 cybersecurity professionals across various […]