Internet security companies have recorded a significant wave of attacks against Ukrainian WordPress sites since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. These attacks are aimed at taking down Ukrainian websites and causing general demor...
On Tuesday, the US Senate unanimously approved a new Cybersecurity Act said to increase the security of critical infrastructure in the country.
The legislation was introduced on Feb. 8 by Senators Rob Portman and Gary Peters, who...
Demand for VPNs spiked to an all-time high in Russia after the government decided to block social media platforms and other websites on Friday, March 4th. Among the blocked platforms are Facebook and Twitter, in addition to severa...
Argentinian e-commerce giant Mercado Libre has confirmed “unauthorized access” to a part of its source code on Tuesday.
Mercado also said that data of around 300,000 of its users was accessed by the threat actors.
The company’s an...
Google said Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors have targeted Ukrainian and European government and military organizations (and individuals) in wide-ranging phishing campaigns and DDoS attacks.
The company’s Threat Anal...
Safety Detectives: Please share your company background, how you got started, and your mission.
Query.AI: Dhiraj Sharan and I met more than 15 years ago at ArcSight, a security information and event management (SIEM) company. Foll...
Aviva Zacks of Safety Detectives got the chance to chat with Satish Ramakrishnan, Senior Executive of MinIO. She asked him about his company’s Object Store.
Safety Detectives: What motivated you to have security be a foundational...
A spear-phishing campaign has been targeting European government personnel providing logistics support to Ukrainian refugees.
According to American cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, the attackers use “possibly compromised” email acco...
Meta said on Feb. 27 that it took down accounts used by a Belarusian-linked hacking group (UNC1151 or Ghostwriter) to target Ukrainian officials and military personnel on Facebook.
In November, Mandiant security researchers linked...
The data-wiping malware used in attacks on Ukrainian networks on Wednesday before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine early on Thursday was, in some cases, accompanied by a Golang-based ransomware decoy.
“In several attacks Symantec has...
