Danny Palmer is a Cybersecurity Writer at ZDNET. He specializes in topics related to cybersecurity and cybercrime, with a focus on cyber attacks, data breaches, and phishing. Danny's insights and expertise have been featured in notable publications including DatacenterDynamics, The Register, The Stack, ComputerWeekly.com, and Infosecurity Magazine.
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CoreView research finds that security leadership is concerned about AI Assistant exposing confidential data
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Written by Russian state-supported hackers are targeting organizations with a new attack technique using a Zero-Click method which doesn't require users to interact with the phishing email.
Written by Universities have found themselves in the firing line of cybercriminals, as ransomware attacks against higher education institutions have increased, analysis of recent incidents has revealed.
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A widespread DNS poisoning campaign is targeting the hotels, conference venues and the hospitality sector with credential harvesting attacks designed to steal corporate login credentials from visitors, researchers have warned.
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mpersonating well-known cryptocurrency and trading sites, SourTrade has developed a novel technique to drop infostealers to victims
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Phishing attacks were the dominant method of initial entry for cyber incidents that required remediation during the last quarter, analysis of attacks by the incident responders who were called in to deal with them has revealed.
Written by The average cost of a data breach has risen to almost $5m, analysis of the consequences of cyber incidents which took place during the last year has revealed.
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Check Point researchers detail phishing attack as an example of attackers dropping fake Microsoft login pages in favor of abusing Microsoft’s legitimate authentication infrastructure
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The pace of mergers and acquisitions in the cybersecurity industry seemingly slowed down for July 2026, with just a small number of deals announced compared with previous months.
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Written by It is a scenario that every CISO hopes they never face: the network encrypted by ransomware attack and cybercriminals who claim
