Author: Kelly Jackson Higgins

Security experts in Germany discover similar attacks that lock building engineering management firms out of the BASes they built and manage — by turning a security feature against them. Source: Darkreading Attacks Breaches

Renowned hardware security expert raises alarm on the risk and dangers of cyberattackers targeting the current time-synchronization infrastructure. Source: Darkreading Attacks Breaches

AWS fixed the security flaws that left the API service at risk of so-called HTTP header-smuggling attacks, says the researcher who discovered them. Source: Darkreading Attacks Breaches

A researcher will release an open source tool at Black Hat Europe next week that roots out server weaknesses to a sneaky type of attack. Source: Darkreading Attacks Breaches

The $200M Series D represents the company’s largest funding round to date. Source: Darkreading Attacks Breaches

Google’s online malware scanning service analyzed 80 million ransomware samples that were uploaded in the past year-and-a-half. Source: Darkreading Attacks Breaches

Prolific ransomware cybercrime group’s approach underscores a complicated, layered model of cybercrime. Source: Darkreading Attacks Breaches

CEOs of the two breached companies said their priorities instantly shifted to joining the response efforts when they first learned of attacks on their systems. Source: Darkreading Attacks Breaches

“National security” concerns led former CEO Kevin Mandia to call the NSA when FireEye discovered its breach in late 2020. Source: Darkreading Attacks Breaches

FinFisher (aka FinSpy) surveillance software now goes to extreme lengths to duck analysis and discovery, researchers found in a months-long investigation. Source: Darkreading Attacks Breaches