IAM house Okta confirms 0ktapus/Scatter Swine attack

Identity and access management specialist Okta has warned customers to be on their guard against a widespread and impactful phishing campaign that has already hit a very limited number of its customers.... Read more »

UK government presses on with new cyber rules for telcos

The government has finalised a series of new cyber security rules and a code of practice for communications services providers (CSPs) that will set out specific actions on how they can fulfil... Read more »

LastPass breach limited in scale and well-managed, say experts

A cyber security breach that unfolded at LastPass – a provider of credential management services – appears to have affected only the firm’s developer environment, and is unlikely to rebound on users,... Read more »

CIOs: Geopolitics impacts your IT strategy

Gartner has predicted that by 2026, 70% of multinational enterprises will adjust the countries in which they operate by hedging to reduce their geopolitical exposure. According to Gartner, chief information officers (CIOs)... Read more »

Criminal 0ktapus spoofed IAM firm in massive phishing attack

A large-scale phishing campaign, dubbed 0ktapus, that reeled in unsuspecting users at Cloudflare and Twilio, among others, and led to a small downstream attack against secure messaging service Signal, has been revealed... Read more »

Adaptive RedAlert, Monster ransomwares go cross-platform

The developers of two newly emergent ransomware families, RedAlert and Monster, are using novel techniques to spread their attacks as widely as possible by exploiting multiple different operating systems (OSes) at the... Read more »

Millions of Plex users may be at risk in password breach

Users of home media streaming service Plex have been warned to reset their passwords immediately following a breach in which an undisclosed third party was able to make off with a user... Read more »

Security pros fret about stress and promotion over cyber attacks

Cyber security professionals in the UK say they are more worried about quotidian issues than the threat of having to deal with a major cyber incident as they go about their business,... Read more »

LockBit 3.0 cements dominance of ransomware ecosystem

The recently updated LockBit 3.0 ransomware seems to have driven a substantial uptick in documented ransomware attacks in July, with incidents rising by 47% on a month-by-month basis, according to the latest... Read more »

Most CISOs think they’ve been attacked by a nation state

The majority of businesses have changed up their cyber security strategies and policies as a direct response to Russia’s war on Ukraine, but at the same time, similar numbers have some reason... Read more »