Supply‑chain attacks: When trust goes wrong, try hope?

Supply‑chain attacks: When trust goes wrong, try hope?

How can organizations tackle the growing menace of attacks that shake trust in software? Cybersecurity is only as good as the weakest link, and in a supply chain this could be virtually anywhere. The big questions may be, “what and where is the weakest link?” and “is it something that you have control over and…
$38 million worth of gift cards stolen and sold on dark web

$38 million worth of gift cards stolen and sold on dark web

Easy to redeem and hard to trace, gift cards remain a hot commodity in the criminal underground A cybercriminal has sold almost 900,000 gift cards and over 300,000 payment cards on a top-tier cybercrime forum on the dark web. The total value of the cards was claimed to be some US$38 million. The hacker probably…
(Are you) afreight of the dark? Watch out for Vyveva, new Lazarus backdoor

(Are you) afreight of the dark? Watch out for Vyveva, new Lazarus backdoor

ESET researchers discover a new Lazarus backdoor deployed against a freight logistics firm in South Africa ESET researchers have discovered a previously undocumented Lazarus backdoor used to attack a freight logistics company in South Africa, which they have dubbed Vyveva. The backdoor consists of multiple components and communicates with its C&C server via the Tor…