Month: June 2021

Cyberattacks targeting the gaming industry skyrocket, with web attacks more than tripling year-on-year in 2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic, the gaming industry has seen greater growth in cyberattacks than any other industry, according to content delivery network (CDN) provider Akamai. Web application attacks against gaming companies rose by 340 percent between 2019 and 2020 and…

What was it like to work for, and be friends with, the larger-than-life technology entrepreneur back when he helped shape the computer security industry? Editor’s note: The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of WeLiveSecurity and ESET. This is probably not the first…

The fraudsters ran their campaigns from the cloud and used phishing attacks and email forwarding rules to steal financial information Microsoft has shut down a sprawling Business Email Compromise (BEC) operation that had its infrastructure hosted in several web services. Using these cloud-based assets, the threat actors infiltrated hundreds of mailboxes across multiple organizations and…