What hardware is needed for security information and event management (SIEM) systems? At some point, the information security department of any large company inevitably begins to consider introducing a SIEM system — or replacing the existing one, and must therefore estimate the budget required for its deployment. But SIEM isn’t a lightweight product that can…

Scammers have devised a new scheme for morally dubious crypto owners. “I have a question. I have USDT stored in my wallet, and I have the seed phrase. How to transfer my funds to another wallet?” — we found a comment like this under a finance-related video on YouTube. And the seed phrase was revealed…

Technical and organizational precautions when deploying existing AI systems and developing new ones Today, AI-based technologies are already being used in every second company — with another 33% of commercial organizations expected to join them in the next two years. AI, in one form or another, will soon be ubiquitous. The economic benefits of adopting…

Privacy-enhanced alternatives to Office, WhatsApp and Evernote for Christmas and New Year gifts. With just a few days left before Christmas, overwhelmed shipping services might fail to deliver your gifts on time. Of course, you could always get a last-minute digital gift-card or subscription — but the fact is that everyone who might be interested…

Methods to recover access to a hacked Telegram account Account hijacking in Telegram has become a serious criminal business in today’s world. Scammers employ sophisticated methods to steal access to accounts, and then use them to attack other users through deepfakes, social engineering, and other techniques. Here’s how it typically works: having stolen an account,…

Mamont banker is distributed under the guise of an application for tracking the delivery of goods offered at wholesale prices. We’ve discovered a new scheme of distribution of the Mamont (Russian for mammoth) Trojan banker. Scammers promise to deliver a certain product at wholesale prices that may be considered interesting to small businesses as well…

Attacks on encrypted file storage: how to choose a safe alternative to Dropbox or OneDrive No one can deny the convenience of cloud file-storage services like Dropbox or OneDrive. The one drawback is that cybercriminals, intelligence agencies, or the hosting provider itself can view your cloud-based files without authorization. But there’s a more secure alternative:…

Infostealer capabilities and how to protect your organization against this threat. Although malicious programs that hunt for passwords, financial, and other sensitive data have been around for over 20 years, the word “infostealer” was coined only in the early 2010s. Recently, however, this relatively simple type of malware has been popping up in unexpected role…

How the Nearest Neighbor tactic can be used in remote attacks on an organization’s wireless network — and how to protect yourself against this threat. From the perspective of information security, wireless networks are typically perceived as something that can be accessed only locally — to connect to them, an attacker needs to be physically close…

Following the takedown of RedLine Stealer by international authorities, ESET researchers are publicly releasing their research into the infostealer’s backend modules Following the takedown of RedLine Stealer by international authorities, ESET researchers are publicly releasing their research into the infostealer’s backend modules Go to Source