The number of “brute force” attacks on small and midsize companies has risen dramatically in the past few months, according to Houston-based Alert Logic Inc., an on-demand IT network security company ...

A weeks-long brute force attack campaign by malicious actors has reached mammoth proportions, according to a non-profit security organization. The Shadowserver Foundation reports that the campaign, ...

Cisco has revealed that a global increase in brute force attacks targeting Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and other devices is currently taking place. The company released a warning this week, saying ...

Phishing, smishing and vishing remain a popular way to harvest credentials, especially in more targeted attacks. Often, ...

A joint advisory issued yesterday by U.S. and international agencies provides updated guidance to defend against the Akira ransomware group, which has previously conducted cyberattacks against ...

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“The best way to think of the slop and spam that generative AI enables is as a brute force attack on the algorithms that control the internet and which govern how a large segment of the public ...

Intelligence and law enforcement agencies in Australia, Canada and the US have warned about an Iran-backed year-long campaign during which hackers used brute force and other techniques to compromise ...

Hackers are always looking for new ways to crack passwords and gain access to your organization’s data and systems. So how can you ensure you’re taking the right steps to defend your business? In this ...

If you set WPA/WPA2 security protocol on your home or small business wireless router, and you think your Wi-Fi is secure, there are two recently released brute force tools that attackers may use to ...