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Cyber criminals and hacktivist groups are increasingly using the Telegram messaging app for their activities, as the Russia-Ukraine conflict enters its eighth day. A new analysis by Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Research has found that "user volume grew a hundred folds daily on Telegram related groups, peaking at 200,000 per group." Prominent among the groups are anti-Russian cyber

The inventor of value-added selling as a new MSP category, Bruno Darmon, joins Cynet as CSO

(PRWeb March 03, 2022)

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Thirty-five cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in February 2022.

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Email-borne attacks out of Russia have already targeted at least a few US and European organizations.

A new malware capable of controlling social media accounts is being distributed through Microsoft's official app store in the form of trojanized gaming apps, infecting more than 5,000 Windows machines in Sweden, Bulgaria, Russia, Bermuda, and Spain. Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point dubbed the malware "Electron Bot," in reference to a command-and-control (C2) domain used in recent

Late last year, the group behind the malware stopped spreading Trickbot, instead pushing out copies of Emotet and Qbot to infected systems, researchers say.

Companies lack confidence in their security controls, and the lack of a ransomware mitigation strategy has led to a temporary shutdown for 45% of impacted companies

(PRWeb February 23, 2022)

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Malicious actors took advantage of a smart contract upgrade process in the OpenSea NFT marketplace to carry out a phishing attack against 17 of its users that resulted in the theft of virtual assets worth about $1.7 million. NFTs, short for non-fungible tokens, are digital tokens that act like certificates of authenticity for, and in some cases represent ownership of, assets that range from

Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea is investigating a phishing attack on Saturday that left 17 of its users without more than 250 NFTs, worth around $2 million. NFTs represent data stored on a blockchain (Ethereum) that declares ownership of digital media files of artwork. OpenSea is one of the world’s largest peer-to-peer NFT marketplaces (valued at […]

Security researchers warn that some cybercriminals are infiltrating Microsoft Teams accounts to enter chats and spread malicious malware to participants in the conversation. More than 270 million users rely on Microsoft Teams every month, despite the absence of protections against malicious files. Researchers at Avanan, a Check Point company that secures cloud email and collaboration […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesOverviewOne of thefirst times the public witnessedfirsthandand realized the power of ransomware was when WannaCry broke out in 2017....