Cybersecurity burnout. A new major problem. Such issues as high employee turnover, low staff morale, and burnout heavily affect the ability of businesses to address major cybersecurity threats. Projects experience the pressure of tightening the hiring market and high levels of resignation. According to the survey carried out by ThreatConnect, 50% of companies have serious
Malicious actors hijack your PC and webcam using NFT hype Cybercriminals trick users to download password-stealing BitRAT malware during NFT hype to hijack infected machines. BitRAT is a remote-access Trojan that can bypass User Account Control, the feature designed to prevent unauthorized changes to the operating system. The functionality of this malware includes stealing credentials
Romance scams resulted in $1.3B losses for last 5 years in the USA Romance scams are becoming in the modern digital scape. Dating apps are the most popular channels for fraudulence. For example, only in the USA romance scams caused $547M damage to victims in 2021. In 2021, the volume of romance scams and the
Significant wash trading and some cases of money laundering in NFT industry: Chainalysis overview According to Chainalysis, more than $44B worth in cryptocurrency were sent to ERC-721 and ERC-1155 contracts that are associated with NFT marketplaces and collection in 2021 (only $106M in 2020). There are generally two main forms of malicious activities involving NFTs,
Companies should boost their defences after cyberattacks targeting Ukraine The ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia should force companies to boost their cybersecurity resilience. Although the recent cyberattack targeting Ukraine has not been attributed to any party, the National Cybersecurity Center is warning that it follows similar patterns to the previous attacks, some of which
Dark web players are getting worried following a series of ransomware arrests After the arrest of suspected members of the notorious ransomware group, cybercriminals are becoming increasingly afraid of being tracked down by law enforcement agencies. On 14 January, Russia’s FSB announced the detaining of the members of the REVil ransomware gang. Last year, some
The record-breaking amount of crypto stolen by North Korean hackers in 2021 Almost $400M worth of cryptocurrency, mainly Ethereum, were stolen by North Korean hackers in 2021 in 7 major cyberattacks. The most notorious North Korea’s military hackers’ group was Lazarus, also known as APT38. Cryptocurrency theft has been one of the primary sources of
Microsoft signature verification abused by malsmoke hackers in ZLoader cyberattacks The vulnerability in Microsoft’s e-signature verification tools is abused by the Malsmoke hacking group to deploy malware and steal user data. According to the data provided by Check Point Research, more than 2,100 victims (mostly in the USA, India, and Canada) of this campaign have
Cyberattacks targeting Ukraine are likely to heat In case current tensions between Ukraine and Russia became worse, Western countries should be prepared for the risk of more cyber and ransomware attacks targeting Ukraine. Russia is likely to utilize the capacity of its cyber and disinformation armies to sow confusion and disaccord among the Western supporters
