Serve your country through cyber, White House says
Earlier this week, the United States White House unveiled a new initiative, called Service for America. This initiative, created together with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office…
VPN demand is on the rise worldwide – the US calls on Big Tech to step in
As the likes of Russia, Iran, Myanmar, and other authoritarian states keep heavily censoring the internet, the demand for VPN services has never been higher. This is why the US…
Mystery database containing sensitive info on 762,000 car-owners discovered by researchers
In early August, cybersecurity researchers from Cybernews discovered an unprotected database containing sensitive information on hundreds of thousands of Chinese individuals. To this day, they haven’t figured out who the…
The White House thinks it’s time to repair a weak link in the internet
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is flawed, and needs to be fixed. Repairing this protocol would minimize data theft, extortion, state-level espionage, as well as the disruption of security-critical transactions.…
CBIZ says web page breach lead to customer data theft
Financial management and consulting powerhouse CBIZ suffered a cyberattack in which it lost sensitive customer data. In a data breach notification letter it posted on its website earlier this week,…
VPN usage soars in Brazil after the ban on X – but people now risk huge fines
People in Brazil have turned en masse to the best VPN services over the weekend to maintain access to X (formerly known as Twitter). Now, they risk fines of up…
VPN usage soars in Brazil after the ban on X – but people now risk huge fines
People in Brazil have turned en masse to the best VPN services over the weekend to maintain access to X (formerly known as Twitter). Now, they risk fines of up…
Chinese organizations are being hit by Cobalt Strike malware from within China
Cybersecurity researchers from Securonix discovered a new threat campaign that included phishing, DLL sideloading, and Cobalt Strike beacons, all using Tencent’s infrastructure, and targeting Chinese entities. Tencent is the largest…
170 million strong data leak traced to US data broker
Cybernews researchers have uncovered a colossal data leak believed to be related to People Data Labs (PDL), a San Francisco-based data broker, containing over 170 million records. Breached data includes…
New ransomware group is hitting VMware ESXi systems hard
There is a new ransomware group out there, and it seems to be specifically targeting VMware’s ESXi hypervisors. Cybersecurity researchers from Truesec have recently issued a warning about a threat…