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A threat actor has hacked into the social media account of South Korea’s biggest boy band, BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys. Since their debut in 2013, BTS have taken the music world by storm, winning major accolades at the American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, and South Korea’s Melon Music Awards, and becoming the first K-pop band to top the US album charts. The seven-member band joined TikTok in…

Apiiro creates user profiles and analyzes a company’s code base to spot high-risk changes. A cybersecurity expert wants to make it easier for software developers and security architects to work together. CEO and co-founder Idan Plotnik used what he learned about user and entity behavior analysis by building his previous company to build his latest one: Apiiro. Plotnik sold his previous cybersecurity company Aorato to Microsoft for $200 million a few years ago. The platform…

A convicted fraudster from Santa Monica, California, who conned the women he dated into investing in his fake businesses has been handed a custodial sentence.  Antonio Mariot Wilson, also known as Dr. Tony Mariot and Brice Carrington, impersonated a Bible scholar and a Navy SEAL in the execution of his romance scams. Wilson lured his targets using online dating sites, including the networking dating app Bumble Bizz. Between May 2015 and October 2017, the 57-year-old tricked four…

Startup uses NLP and AI to make software security reviews less painful Length: 6:40 | Mar 10, 2021 Apiiro creates user profiles and analyzes a company’s code base to spot high-risk changes and replace manual risk assessments with on-the-fly analysis. Source link

More than half of Americans believe that their companies could have done more to increase cybersecurity during the global health pandemic, according to a new survey. In February, tech company Lynx Software asked 1,000 Americans employed during the pandemic about their employer’s approach to cybersecurity since the outbreak of COVID-19. Of those surveyed, 51% said that their companies have not been taking cybersecurity seriously. Nearly half (48%) said that they were not aware of their company’s implementing any…

Cyber-attacks have become increasingly sophisticated in the past year, with the SolarWinds incident unlikely to be an isolated event going forward, according to VMware Security Business Unit’s 2021 Global Cybersecurity Outlook report. The researchers noted that, in addition to widening the attack surface, the shift to digital following the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed malicious actors the time, capital and opportunity to industrialize, leading to advancements in their operations. Nearly 40% of the 180 IR, cybersecurity…

Less than half of employees feel their organization’s cybersecurity has strengthened since the start of COVID-19, says Lynx Software. Image: iStock/poike The coronavirus outbreak and lockdown forced many organizations to close their offices and shift employees to a remote work setup. But such a quick and abrupt transition opened the door to a host of security risks, especially from people who are unaccustomed to working remotely. A report released Wednesday by software vendor Lynx Software…

The European Banking Authority (EBA) disclosed a cyberattack that resulted in the hack of its Microsoft Exchange email system. The European Banking Authority announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack against its email system that exploited recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange. On March 2nd, Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported Microsoft Exchange versions that are actively exploited in…

There are more than 10 different advanced persistent threat (APT) groups exploiting recent Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, according to ESET research. Last week, Microsoft released out-of-band patches to fix multiple zero-day vulnerabilities believed to be being exploited by Chinese state-sponsored group Hafnium. The step was taken to protect customers running on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. However, today (March 10), ESET claimed the number of APT groups exploiting the vulnerabilities is believed to be in double-figures,…