In many fields, including cybersecurity, common wisdom does not always translate into common practice. The majority of the data breaches that have occurred in recent years are not the result of the failure of some cutting-edge artificial intelligence firewall or of the discovery of a critical zero-day exploit. In most cases, a data breach is…

In 2019, the Maze ransomware organization was the first to use double extortion assaults. Since then, a growing number of ransomware gangs have embraced this tactic. Research published in 2021 by Group-IB says that the number of firms that have had their data exposed on a data breach site has increased by 935%, demonstrating that…

People love GIFs. We add them to emails, texts, tweets, and Slack chat groups all day long as we chat away with co-workers, friends, and family. We use them as a communication tool to show emotion and convey a tone when a plain text message might fall flat. If a picture says a thousand words,…

Car parking lots notoriously attract thieves. With plenty of cars lined up next to each other, all a thief has to do is scan the vehicles as he walks up and down the rows, looking for an open window, a door left ajar, or expensive items left out in plain view. It’s almost too easy,…

Round and round we go. It’s the nature of cybersecurity. Hackers discover an exploitable attack avenue, and a patch is then created to block it, except it doesn’t end there. Hackers just find another vulnerability and the battle rages on. It’s not just cybersecurity companies that must constantly innovate to remain relevant. Hackers must do…

You would be hard pressed to come up with a more nostalgic image than a child running a lemonade stand in their front yard on a hot afternoon. Unfortunately, there is nothing nostalgic about what some young entrepreneurs are doing today.  A team of researchers recently uncovered a group of minors that were running what…