May 2023

The RapperBot campaign is bringing in some fresh talent to its arsenal of malware beats, adding cryptomining capability to its existing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet Read More

Startup SquareX has emerged from stealth with plans for a “disposable browser” for users to access the Internet safely and privately. The bulk of a Read More

CHANDLER, Ariz., May 8, 2023 – Privoro, a next-generation mobile security hardware company, today announced a new partnership with Samsung Electronics to provide a capability Read More

BRATISLAVA — ESET has released its APT Activity Report, which summarizes the activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were observed, investigated, and Read More

Stalking, extortion, and swatting are just a sampling of the cybercrimes UK citizen Joseph James O’Connor has confessed to committing — dating back to a Read More

On March 4, a ransomware crew that calls itself Royal attacked the city of Dallas, hobbling services and triggering issues that have persisted for the Read More

Microsoft’s security update for May 2023 is the lightest in volume since August 2021 with fixes for a total of 49 new vulnerabilities including two Read More

The US Department of Justice announced it has pulled off a joint operation code-named Medusa that decimated a long-standing malware operation run by the Federal Read More

Call it a patch for a broken patch. Microsoft’s May 2023 security update includes a patch for a vulnerability that allows attackers to easily bypass Read More

Good news for ransomware victims: Researchers have released a free tool on GitHub that they say can help victims of intermittent encryption attacks recover data Read More