Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
14 February 2023
International high-speed rail operator, Eurostar, is emailing its users this week and forcing them to reset their account passwords in a bid to "upgrade" security. But users who visit the password reset link are met with "technical problems."
14 February 2023
In an SEC filing, Community Health Systems (CHS), one of the largest US healthcare services providers, revealed that a “security breach experienced by Fortra” resulted in the exposure of personal info and PHI belonging to patients of CHS affiliates.
14 February 2023
Robot process automation (RPA) has expanded to meet workforce needs. Unfortunately, RPA can put the sensitive data that it touches at risk.
14 February 2023
The Sunday dump, which appears to include sensitive data including staff medical diagnoses and student bank account information, came days after the Irish High Court issued a temporary injunction prohibiting ransomware attackers from leaking data.
14 February 2023
Only two cyberattacks targeted ESXi with ransomware in 2020, but in 2021, Recorded Future identified more than 400 incidents. Last year the number ballooned, growing almost threefold to 1,118 in 2022, the research found.
14 February 2023
Software supply chain security company Phylum, which spotted the libraries, said the ongoing activity is a follow-up to a campaign that was initially disclosed in November 2022.
14 February 2023
Acquiring the privately held cyber defence, risk management, and cyber threat intelligence services provider is set to enable Accenture to widen its cybersecurity footprint within the region.
14 February 2023
Talos observed the actor scanning the internet for victim machines with an exposed remote desktop protocol (RDP) port 3389, using one of their download servers that run an RDP crawler and also facilitates MortalKombat ransomware.
14 February 2023
Hackers said they had taken down the websites of Bahrain’s international airport and state news agency on Tuesday to mark the 12-year anniversary of an Arab Spring uprising in the small Gulf country.
14 February 2023
Recently, Kaspersky researchers shared with VPNOverview details of two separate campaigns — a scam designed to inject PCs with malware and a phishing ploy designed to steal banking information and other financial data.
14 February 2023
Hackers are sending tailored phishing messages to their intended targets by language and location via geotargeting tool known as Geo Targetly, according to Avanan. The threat actors have been following the spray-and-pray technique that ensures they can target a massive number of individuals in one go. As phishing attacks keep evolving, organizations and individuals should take their security game to the next level.
14 February 2023
In January, cybersecurity company Sonatype said it found 691 malicious npm packages and 49 malicious PyPI components containing crypto-miners, remote access Trojans (RATs), and more.
14 February 2023
A new joint advisory warns of North Korean hackers that are involved in ongoing ransomware attacks against healthcare systems in South Korea and the U.S. According to the advisory, the modus operandi of the attacks includes North Korean hackers acquiring and purchasing infrastructure to conceal their identities. The cybersecurity agencies have shared a list of recommendations and mitigation measures to stay safe.
14 February 2023
"The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (RPS) with the largest exceeding 71 million," Cloudflare said, calling it a "hyper-volumetric" DDoS attack.
14 February 2023
Malicious actors have published more than 451 unique Python packages on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) repository in an attempt to infect developer systems with clipper malware.
Software supply chain security company Phylum, which spotted the libraries, said the ongoing activity is a follow-up to a campaign that was initially disclosed in November 2022.
The initial vector entails using
14 February 2023
New findings from researchers at the security firm Sophos show how pig butchering scammers are tweaking and refining their strategies to try to ensnare more unsuspecting victims.
14 February 2023
As part of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending deal signed into law last year, $1 billion was allocated to state and local governments to upgrade their cybersecurity defenses.
14 February 2023
North Korean hackers have found a way around U.S.-imposed sanctions to launder the cryptocurrency proceeds from their heists, according to evidence discovered by blockchain analysts.
14 February 2023
One thing is clear. The "business value" of data continues to grow, making it an organization's primary piece of intellectual property.
From a cyber risk perspective, attacks on data are the most prominent threat to organizations.
Regulators, cyber insurance firms, and auditors are paying much closer attention to the integrity, resilience, and recoverability of organization data – as well as
14 February 2023
Almost 4 in 5 organizations are making cybersecurity decisions without any insight into the attackers they are facing off with, according to a report from Mandiant, a unit of Google Cloud.