September 2019

There’s never been a shortage of risk that organizations face from insiders gone bad — those incidents where insiders steal information from their employers, clients, Read More

The notorious Stealth Falcon cyberespionage group has adopted a new backdoor using the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) in its ongoing spyware attacks against Read More

The well-known LokiBot malware has popped up in several malicious spam campaigns over the past year, covertly siphoning information from victims’ compromised endpoints. Researchers this Read More

Attackers targeted an array of servers with a flurry of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks over the weekend, crippling online encyclopedia Wikipedia, as well Read More

Apple has called out Google for promoting a “false impression” about iOS vulnerabilities the iPhone maker said it fixed in February. It claims Google is Read More

Researchers are urging users to upgrade their Exim servers immediately after millions of servers were found to be vulnerable to a critical flaw that could Read More

In this week’s news wrap ended Sept. 6, the Threatpost team breaks down the biggest news of the week, including: For the full podcast, see Read More

Facebook, Microsoft and a number of universities have joined forces to sponsor a contest promoting research and development to combat deepfakes, or videos altered through Read More

College students settling back into school might want to think twice before clicking on an email prompting them to renew their school library account. Researchers Read More

After a ransomware attack slapped a hefty payout demand of $5.3 million on New Bedford, Mass., the city announced that it is instead opting to Read More