Tag: cybercriminals

March 31, 2023

Researchers from SentinelLabs have uncovered a new toolkit cybercriminals are using to breach email and web hosting(opens in new tab) services. The malware toolkit, called “AlienFox”, is being described as “highly modular” and getting regular updates. Most of the tools […]

January 19, 2023

Cloud-based cyberattacks have increased by almost half (48%) over the course of 2022 compared to the previous year, new figures from Check Point Research (CPR) have shown. The company’s analysis determined that as businesses accelerate their digital transformation efforts, they’re […]

January 4, 2023

By now, many small and mid-sized organizations have transitioned to the cloud and are running hybrid environments. Not surprisingly, as the adoption of cloud technology grows, it has also become a more attractive target for cybercriminals. To better understand the […]

June 16, 2022

What makes cloud computing appealing is also a reason to worry. It is easy to access your cloud environment anywhere with internet access, but that also means it’s easy for cybercriminals and digital adversaries to access it. With the explosion […]

March 31, 2022

Threat actors are compromising cloud accounts in order to create distributed workloads for cryptomining — compromising misconfigured and vulnerable cloud instances for executing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and abusing trial accounts from DevOps service providers. A Romanian group, dubbed Outlaw, […]

September 15, 2021

As cybercriminals remain steadfast in their pursuit of unsuspecting ways to infiltrate today’s businesses, a new report by IBM Security X-Force highlights the top tactics of cybercriminals, the open doors users are leaving for them and the burgeoning marketplace for […]

January 13, 2021

Organizations have rapidly come to the realization that digital cloud services make a compelling business case for helping them navigate this difficult pandemic year. The market for cloud services is expected to grow 18% in 2021 and is likely to […]

June 11, 2020

Microsoft has released a new report highlighting a new series of attacks targeting a toolkit called Kubeflow which is used for running machine learning operations on top of Kubernetes clusters. The attacks first began in April of this year and […]

April 25, 2018

It’s not difficult to find worrying predictions from experts who say the cybersecurity sector desperately needs to figure out how to address its skills shortage. However, a new report from McAfee titled “Navigating a Cloudy Sky” highlights that skills gap […]