A Russian-language dark web marketplace called Hydra that is known to facilitate the illegal sale of narcotics has seen cryptocurrency transactions soar over the last five years. According to a report by Flashpoint and Chainalysis, Hydra s crypto business began accelerating in 2017 after its chief competitor was shut down by Russian law enforcement authorities.
As cryptocurrency values continue to rise, cryptojacking becomes more attractive to cybercriminals. Now, a powerful hardware-based threat detection technology is being integrated into a Microsoft enterprise security product to help protect businesses from cryptojacking malware. The action integrates Intel Threat Detection Technology with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
Microsoft has announced it is purchasing Nuance Communications, a natural language to computer processing company, in a deal valued at $19.7 billion. "Nuance s popular healthcare-focused products and services will provide Microsoft an instant revenue stream and relationships with existing Nuance customers," noted Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT.
Researchers at the University College London are giving new meaning to the expression "all thumbs." They ve taken an award-winning graduate project from the Royal College of Art in London and are using it to test the brain s reaction to coping with additional body parts.
The idea behind the project was to reframe traditional views of prosthetics through the use of a robotic thumb that can be attached to a hand.
May 12, 2021 4:00 AM PT
Two out of three global CISOs feel unprepared to cope with a cyberattack, according to an annual survey released Wednesday by a cybersecurity and compliance company.
The 2021 edition of Proofpoint s Voice of the CISO report based on a survey of more than 1,400 CISOs in 14 countries found 66 percent of the executives acknowledged their organizations were unprepared to handle a targeted cyberattack this year.
In addition, more than half the CISOs (53 percent) admitted they are more concerned about the repercussions from a cyberattack this year than they were in 2020. Cyberattacks are coming fast and furious and getting more so by the minute, declared Saryu Nayyar, CEO of Gurucul, a threat intelligence company in El Segundo, Calif.