Search: “consumer-security”

How to secure hybrid meeting rooms without sacrificing user experience

Sponsored Barco piece, citing IDC data, says security is now the top videoconferencing purchase criterion as NIS2 and Cyber Resilience Act compliance pressures mount.

The sponsored article cites IDC research showing security (31%) now outranks price (26%) and quality (25%) as the top videoconferencing purchase criterion. It highlights concerns like malware propagation (47%), missed patches (39%), and risky user behavior (37%), and references NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act, the Radio Equipment Delegated Act, and ISO/IEC 27001. Barco ClickShare marketing director Yannic Laleeuwe argues security is now a prerequisite for market access and resilience, but warns that usability tradeoffs drive risky workarounds.

The Register · Security·Sep 8, 15:00 UTC · 8d agoIndustry

Stopping the smart TV from being used against you

Guide describes practical hardening steps to prevent smart TVs from spying on their owners or being used against them.

A tutorial-style post walks through defensive measures to keep a smart TV from collecting user data or being leveraged against its owner. The piece is a consumer IoT privacy and hardening guide rather than a disclosure of a specific vulnerability.

Lobsters · security·Aug 28, 19:32 UTC · 18d agoResearch

11 Best Device Control & USB Security Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

2026 comparison of 11 device control and USB security tools ranks CoSoSys Endpoint Protector first for cross-platform control and DLP.

An editorial scorecard evaluates eleven device control and removable-media security tools across granularity, content-aware DLP, cross-platform parity, encryption/shadowing, and value. CoSoSys Endpoint Protector (now part of Netwrix) leads at 4.60 for genuine Windows, macOS, and Linux parity, with Ivanti DeviceLock at 4.25 for the deepest Windows peripheral control and Safetica positioned for SMB and mid-market value. Enterprise content-aware DLP anchors include Symantec (Broadcom), Forcepoint, Digital Guardian (Fortra), and Trellix, with pricing almost always per endpoint.

GBHackers·updated 09:52 UTC · 8h ago·first Sep 11, 07:08 UTC · 5d agoIndustry 14 sources

Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G

Help Net Security·Aug 11, 00:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2025-48618

Retail Cybersecurity in ANZ: Five Decisions That Keep Trading

Huntress outlines five key cybersecurity decisions for ANZ retail businesses to secure identities and maintain trading continuity against ransomware.

Huntress published guidance aimed at retailers in Australia and New Zealand, describing five decisions that help retail businesses stay trading through cyber incidents. The piece covers identity security, dependency management, and ransomware resilience. It is guidance content rather than a report of a specific incident.

Huntress·Aug 27, 13:00 UTC · 20d agoIndustry

Lner Supply Chain Attack Customer

LNER reportedly suffered a supply chain cyberattack affecting customer data, according to the Infosecurity Magazine headline.

The Infosecurity Magazine headline indicates a supply chain attack affected UK rail operator London North Eastern Railway (LNER) and its customers. No article text was available, so the scope, data types and third party involved are unconfirmed.

Infosecurity Magazine·Aug 16, 00:00 UTC · Aug 16, 2026Data breach

Recorded Future Launches Digital Risk Protection, Unifying Brand and Identity Monitoring

Recorded Future launched Digital Risk Protection, unifying brand and identity monitoring across five external threat surfaces in one workflow.

Recorded Future announced Digital Risk Protection, combining brand threat monitoring and identity exposure monitoring across five use cases: malicious site, impersonation, code repository, dark web brand, and identity exposure monitoring. The platform includes an AI Triage Agent that automates alert evaluation with explicit verdicts and context, expanding social media analysis, OCR, full Telegram coverage, and infostealer log ingestion. Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant folded digital risk protection into cyber threat intelligence technologies, and the launch cites $15.9 billion in 2025 US fraud/scam losses, up 28% year over year.

Recorded Future·Sep 9, 00:00 UTC · 7d agoTools

Banks look for fraud signals in customer behavior

ThreatMark's 2026 benchmark finds 55% of banks see social engineering in most fraud, pushing behavioral intelligence and earlier detection during customer sessions.

ThreatMark's Fraud Readiness Benchmark 2026 reports social engineering is involved in most fraud at 55% of surveyed banks, with criminals impersonating trusted people to make customers authorize payments using legitimate credentials. The report highlights behavioral intelligence as underused (18% adoption, 83% rating it effective), expects authorized push payment reimbursement regulation in North America within two years, and notes 91% agreement that AI can shorten fraud investigations. It also finds 81% of fraud professionals now carry cybersecurity responsibilities.

Help Net Security·Aug 19, 00:00 UTC · 28d agoPhishing & fraud

Identity-as-a-Service: Uncovering Dark Web Marketplaces Trading Executive SSNs

Rapid7 research uncovered dark web marketplaces trading executive Social Security numbers, fueling synthetic identity fraud and unauthorized lines of credit.

Rapid7 threat research documents dark web marketplaces where stolen executive Social Security numbers are bought and sold, a tier of the cybercrime ecosystem more durable than stolen payment cards because SSNs cannot be deactivated. Exposed SSNs enable unauthorized credit lines, synthetic identity fraud, and long-term impersonation. The article cites FTC statistics of over 1 million identity theft reports annually, with related fraud and imposter scams causing billions in losses each year.

Rapid7 Blog·Aug 27, 13:51 UTC · 20d agoResearch

Malware Crypting Services and the Threat Actors Who Sell Them

Recorded Future's Insikt Group profiles 24 threat actors selling malware crypting services and urges defenders to favor behavioral detection over static analysis.

Recorded Future's Insikt Group analyzed 24 threat actors that sell malware crypting services. The report covers their evasion techniques and the market dynamics of crypting-as-a-service. Insikt recommends that defenders prioritize behavioral detection over static analysis because crypting regularly alters malware file characteristics.

Recorded Future·Aug 13, 00:00 UTC · Aug 13, 2026Threat actor

UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks

The UK National Audit Office warns cyber-attacks are a major threat to food supply chains, urging Defra to strengthen incident preparedness with industry.

A National Audit Office report names cyber-attacks among the major threats to the UK food supply chain and urges Defra to work with industry and test emergency plans with local government. The report cites 2025 attacks on retailers: Marks & Spencer estimated around £136 million ($177.2 million) in costs, and the Co-op confirmed data theft from 6.5 million members. The NAO found cyber-attacks raised operating costs and disrupted core digital systems, and Defra has run food-sector cyber incident exercises since 2023.

The Register · Security·Sep 7, 10:06 UTC · 9d agoPolicy & legal

A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices

Researchers showed malicious SIM cards can issue RUN AT commands to execute code on Qualcomm modems, compromising Quectel-based cellular IoT devices like EV chargers.

Researchers at the University of Birmingham and Fuzzware found 9 of 26 tested devices accept SIM proactive commands, including six Qualcomm-based cellular modules, five of them Quectel. They achieved code execution on a commercial Autel EV charger via the Quectel EC25's atfwd_daemon unsafe format string, and demonstrated an irreversible 2G downgrade, modem power-off, and arbitrary file reads via a root TFTP daemon on a Quectel EG25-G. Attacks require a hostile SIM already in the slot or an interposer; no attacks have been reported in the wild. Qualcomm has built a hardened configuration disabling the interface by default and Quectel mitigated the file-access flaw; the paper was presented at USENIX WOOT.

The Hacker News·Aug 11, 12:12 UTC · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2025-48618

Closing the Blind Spot: Securing Personal Repositories in the Software Supply Chain

Wiz highlights personal developer repositories as a supply chain blind spot leaking corporate secrets, offering correlation-based risk validation and remediation.

Wiz argues that developers' personal code repositories are a blind spot in software supply chain security where corporate secrets quietly escape. The company describes an approach that correlates personal repositories to specific developers, validates the actual risk, and drives remediation. No specific incident or vulnerability is disclosed in the announcement.

Wiz Blog·Aug 13, 13:48 UTC · Aug 13, 2026Tools2

How to secure edge AI in customer-owned environments

Microsoft outlines security architecture guidance for edge AI, urging runtime attestation, artifact provenance, and deterministic mediation of model actions.

Microsoft details how edge AI shifts trust responsibilities to customers operating their own infrastructure, where prompt injection, model tampering, and malicious firmware updates can occur alongside model weights, credentials, and physical-system access. The guidance recommends verifying runtimes with attestation, verifying AI artifacts with provenance, and constraining model actions through a deterministic mediator outside the model. It also covers new exposure surfaces from MCP, multi-agent systems, and computer-use agents running in disconnected or hostile edge environments.

Microsoft Security Blog·Sep 4, 19:10 UTC · 11d agoAI safety & security

Srsly Risky Biz: America's Drivers Licence Breach is a National Security Disaster

Dark web service Nexus sold 153 million US and Canadian driver's licenses, linked to identity verification firm IDScan under FBI investigation.

Krebs On Security reported that a dark web service called Nexus sold access to 153 million US and Canadian driver's licenses, claiming over a year of continuous exfiltration from a major identity verification company, with roughly 400,000 new licences added in a single day. Krebs verified the data as genuine and linked the incident via circumstantial evidence to identity verification firm IDScan, whose licences of senior US officials including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth appeared in the database; the FBI is investigating and IDScan has confirmed a breach inquiry. The article argues the data has national security implications, citing how Chinese APT espionage (Anthem, Equifax, Marriott, OPM) and Bellingcat investigations exploited leaked databases. Class action suits are being prepared, and the piece calls for stricter oversight of identity verification firms.

Risky Business News·Sep 10, 03:32 UTC · 6d agoData breach in the wild

US Finance Under Phishing Pressure: What the SOC Data Reveals?

ANY.RUN SOC telemetry shows escalating phishing campaigns against US finance, including Vercel-hosted RMM attacks abusing legitimate services.

ANY.RUN analyzed SOC telemetry data on phishing targeting the US financial sector, concluding that the scale and security impact should not be understated. The analysis highlights modern campaigns such as Vercel-hosted attacks that deliver remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools. It notes that attackers increasingly abuse legitimate services and everyday workflow tools to deliver phishing, making detection harder for SOC teams.

ANY.RUN·Aug 26, 09:17 UTC · 21d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild

The New Face of Financial Fraud: AI-Powered Brand Abuse

Akamai reports AI-powered brand abuse is driving financial fraud against banks and promotes its Brand Guardian defense.

Akamai describes AI-powered brand abuse as a growing driver of financial fraud against banks. The post outlines the threats and the business impact for financial institutions. It also promotes Akamai Brand Guardian as a mitigation for financial institutions.

Akamai Blog·Aug 25, 13:00 UTC · 22d agoPhishing & fraud

Top 10 Best Device Control & USB Security Tools in 2026

A 2026 scorecard ranks ten USB and device control tools, placing Safetica, Ivanti DeviceLock and DriveLock at the top.

The article compares ten device control and USB security tools using a weighted scorecard covering control granularity, platform coverage, DLP integration, operability and value. Safetica, Ivanti DeviceLock and DriveLock rank highest, with notes on cross-platform depth, Windows granularity and European compliance fit. The piece highlights ownership changes, including CoSoSys joining Netwrix and Digital Guardian joining Fortra, and stresses device control as part of Zero Trust and DLP strategies.

Cyber Security News·Sep 10, 08:05 UTC · 6d agoIndustry

Next

Palo Alto Networks product-category page describing Next-Generation Firewall threat detection, including encrypted traffic; no standalone article.

The page is a product category listing for Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls, stating the products detect known and unknown threats, including in encrypted traffic, using intelligence from many thousands of customer deployments. It contains no research findings, vulnerabilities, or incident details relevant to defenders.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Aug 19, 12:05 UTC · 28d agoIndustry

17 draft Cyber Resilience Act standards are open for comment

ETSI publishes 17 draft harmonised standards detailing EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance, open for comment until between mid-September and mid-November 2026.

Seventeen draft standards covering the higher-risk tier of products with digital elements, including password managers, antivirus software, connected toys and wearables, are open for comment. Following a Harmonised Standard grants manufacturers the presumption of conformity with the Cyber Resilience Act, whose obligations apply through the end of 2027 to importers, distributors, service providers and developers. The drafts went to 41 member organisations plus societal partners ANEC, ECOS, ETUC and SBS, with closing dates varying by vertical.

Help Net Security·Aug 14, 00:00 UTC · Aug 14, 2026Policy & legal

Risks in IoT Supply Chain

Unit 42 analyzes multilayer IoT supply chain risks across hardware, firmware, and software, citing counterfeit Cisco switches and OpenWrt attacks.

Unit 42 examines weaknesses in the IoT supply chain ecosystem across hardware, firmware, operation, and vulnerability layers, noting that 89% of IT decision-makers reported IoT device growth and IDC forecast 41.6 billion connected IoT devices by 2025. Examples include counterfeit Cisco Catalyst 2960-X switches with possible backdoor access (F-Secure, July 2020), a March 2020 OpenWrt flaw enabling malicious update impersonation, and threat actor interest in TeamViewer remote support software. The report stresses that untracked third-party components and missing device inventories make it hard to assess vulnerability impact across vendors.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Aug 19, 12:05 UTC · 28d agoResearch