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Google's DMARC Push Pays Off, but Email Security Challenges Remain
2 months ago
A year after Google and Yahoo started requiring DMARC, the adoption rate of the email authentication specification has doubled; and yet, 87% of domains remain unprotected.
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer
Behavioral Analytics in Cybersecurity: Who Benefits Most?
2 months ago
As the cost of data breaches continues to climb, the role of user and entity behavioral analytics (UEBA) has never been more important.
Jackie Wyatt
Cybercrime Forces Local Law Enforcement to Shift Focus
2 months ago
Local law enforcements need to steer away from "place-based policing" when investigating cybercrimes.
Jennifer Lawinski
7AI Streamlines Security Operations With Autonomous AI Agents
2 months ago
Cybereason co-founders launch their second act with a security startup focused on offering a platform that uses agentic AI to offload repetitive tasks commonly performed by security analysts.
Jeffrey Schwartz
Researcher Outsmarts, Jailbreaks OpenAI's New o3-mini
2 months ago
OpenAI's latest tech can reason better than its previous models could, but not well enough to ferret out careful social engineering.
Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer
US Cybersecurity Efforts for Spacecraft Are Up in the Air
2 months ago
While President Trump supported federal space efforts during his first administration, the addition of SpaceX chief Elon Musk to his circle likely means challenges for regulating spacecraft cybersecurity, experts say.
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer
DeepSeek Phishing Sites Pursue User Data, Crypto Wallets
2 months ago
Riding the wave of notoriety from the Chinese company's R1 AT chatbot, attackers are spinning up lookalike sites for different malicious use cases.
Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
Agencies Sound Alarm on Patient Monitors With Hardcoded Backdoor
2 months ago
CISA and the FDA are warning that Contec CMS8000 and Epsimed MN-120 patient monitors are open to meddling and data theft; Claroty Team82 flagged the vulnerability as an avoidable insecure design issue.
Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading
The Cyber Savanna: A Rigged Race You Can't Win, but Must Run Anyway
2 months ago
When it comes to protecting your company from cyberattacks, you don't have to be the fastest gazelle — you just can't afford to be the slowest.
Boaz Barzel
Basket of Bank Trojans Defraud Citizens of East India
2 months ago
Cheap banking scams are often easier to pull off in a country with older devices, fewer regulations, and experienced fraudsters.
Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer
Why Cybersecurity Needs Probability — Not Predictions
2 months ago
While probabilities may be based on subjective information, when used in an objective framework, they demonstrate an effective way to improve the value of hard decisions.
Vishaal "V8" Hariprasad
Abandoned AWS Cloud Storage: A Major Cyberattack Vector
2 months ago
New research highlights how bad actors could abuse deleted AWS S3 buckets to create all sorts of mayhem, including a SolarWinds-style supply chain attack.
Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
Attackers Target Education Sector, Hijack Microsoft Accounts
2 months ago
A sophisticated cyberattack campaign is targeting organizations that still rely on Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) for authentication across applications and services.
Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
Nigeria Touts Cyber Success, Even as Cybercrime Rises in Africa
2 months 1 week ago
Organizations continue to be at high risk from cybercrime in Africa, despite law enforcement takedowns of cybercriminal syndicates in Nigeria and other African nations.
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer
How Are Modern Fraud Groups Using GenAI and Deepfakes?
2 months 1 week ago
Fraud groups are using cutting-edge technology to scale their operations to create fake identities and execute fraud campaigns.
Jennifer Lawinski
Backline Tackles Enterprise Security Backlogs With AI
2 months 1 week ago
The security startup's autonomous security remediation platform uses off-the-shelf large language models (LLMs) to analyze security alerts and apply the fixes.
Dark Reading Staff
Credential Theft Becomes Cybercriminals' Favorite Target
2 months 1 week ago
Researchers measured a threefold increase in credential stealing between 2023 and 2024, with more than 11.3 million such thefts last year.
Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading
Ferret Malware Added to 'Contagious Interview' Campaign
2 months 1 week ago
Targets are lured into a fake interview process that convinces them to download malware needed for a virtual interview.
Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading
Cybercriminals Court Traitorous Insiders via Ransom Notes
2 months 1 week ago
Ransomware actors are offering individuals millions to turn on their employers and divulge private company information, in a brand-new cybercrime tactic.
Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading
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