Ashraf Sheet, Regional Director, Middle East & Africa at Infoblox, explains why a comprehensive and intelligent protection against DNS DDoS attacks needs be an essential part of a cybersecurity architecture of any organization amid the growing sophistication of cyber threats.Read More…
SophosLabs published an article, Following the Money in a Massive “Sextortion” Spam Scheme, that shows how the funds extracted from victims led to an underbelly of cybercriminal activity. Researchers traced the origin of millions of sextortion spam emails launched between September 2019Read More…
According to the latest Comodo Cybersecurity Threat Research Labs’ “Global Malware Report Q1 2018.” revealed that the first quarter for 2018 (for Jan-March 2018) threat analysis shows a very different picture from 2017, as cryptominers surged to the top of detected malware incidents, displacing ransomware — which declined significantly in volumeRead More…
According to McAfee’s Threats Report: March 2018 healthcare experiences 211% increase in disclosed security incidents in 2017. The report goes on to say that McAfee Catalogs 478 New Cyber Threats Every Minute and on average eight new threat samples per second. Read More…
NCR Corporation announced on Tuesday that it has teamed up with CoinHub, a cryptocurrency exchange in the UAE, to enable users to make cash withdrawals from their cryptocurrency account at the ATM. NCR’s CxBanking software will provide users in the UAE easy access to their bitcoin funds, it said inRead More…
Rick Holland, VP Strategy, Digital Shadows discusses how research indicates that criminals are increasingly exploiting the growth of ‘fake news’ for commercial gain.Read More…
Guest Written by Sunil Gupta, president and COO at Paladion Blockchain, the technology that is used in the popular cryptocurrency ‘Bitcoin’, is revolutionary in many ways. It addresses multiple challenges associated with digital transactions, such as double spending and currency reproduction. Employing blockchain also reduces the cost of online transactionsRead More…
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new malware which steals cryptocurrencies from a user’s wallet by replacing their address with its own in the device’s clipboard. Criminals are targeting popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, Dash, Monero and others. Indeed, criminals have already succeeded with bitcoin wallets, earning almostRead More…
