PixPirate: The Brazilian financial malware you can’t see

Malicious software always aims to stay hidden, making itself invisible so the victims can’t detect it. The constantly mutating PixPirate malware has taken that strategy to a new extreme. PixPirate is a sophisticated financial remote access trojan (RAT) malware that heavily utilizes anti-research techniques. This malware’s infection vector is based…

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DORA and your quantum-safe cryptography migration

Quantum computing is a new paradigm with the potential to tackle problems that classical computers cannot solve today. Unfortunately, this also introduces threats to the digital economy and particularly the financial sector. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a regulatory framework that introduces uniform requirements across the European Union…

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Updated SBOM guidance: A new era for software transparency?

The cost of cyberattacks on software supply chains is a growing problem, with the average data breach costing $4.45 million in 2023. Since President Biden’s 2021 executive order, software bills of materials (SBOMs) have become a cornerstone in protecting supply chains. In December 2023, the National Security Agency (NSA) published…

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Beware of rogue chatbot hacking incidents

For years, chatbots have been a useful tool to help automate customer-facing applications. But what happens if the chatbot goes rogue? Recent reports have revealed that this may have happened to the Comcast / Xfinity chatbot. First, there were incidents of Xfinity email outages. Next, some reported that if you…

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