According to a new study by Mimecast, human error contributed to 95% of data breaches in 2024, driven by insider threats, credential misuse, and user-driven errors. A small fraction of employees contributed disproportionately to these security incidents, with just 8% of staff accounting for 80% of incidents. The report highlighted several high-profile incidents in the past year linked to human error. This included the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, in which an employee’s credentials were c
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The Marko Polo cybercrime gang represents a growing global financial threat, steering at least 30 ongoing fraud campaigns simultaneously and wielding an arsenal of sophisticated malware that has compromised tens of thousands of devices. Researchers reported that the group's scams are going after individuals and organizations alike by impersonating popular brands such as Zoom, Discord, and OpenSea, mainly in online gaming, virtual meeting software, and cryptocurrency platform markets. The effor
A group of academics has devised a "deep learning-based acoustic side-channel attack" that can be used to classify laptop keystrokes recorded using a nearby phone with 95% accuracy. "When trained on keystrokes recorded using the video conferencing software Zoom, an accuracy of 93% was achieved, a new best for the medium," researchers Joshua Harrison, Ehsan Toreini, and Maryam Mehrnezhad said in a new study.
Side-channel attacks refer to a class of security exploits that aim to glean insights fr
