Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
13 July 2023
An unnamed Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency in the U.S. detected anomalous email activity in mid-June 2023, leading to Microsoft's discovery of a new China-linked espionage campaign targeting two dozen organizations.
The details come from a joint cybersecurity advisory released by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation
13 July 2023
SonicWall on Wednesday urged customers of Global Management System (GMS) firewall management and Analytics network reporting engine software to apply the latest fixes to secure against a set of 15 security flaws that could be exploited by a threat actor to circumvent authentication and access sensitive information.
Of the 15 shortcomings (tracked from CVE-2023-34123 through CVE-2023-34137), four
12 July 2023
A British Crown Court on Tuesday lifted a reporting restriction, allowing the naming of teenager Arion Kurtaj who is accused of hacking Uber, Revolut, and video game developer Rockstar Games in a short period of time last September.
12 July 2023
The total amount of ransom paid since 2020 is estimated to be at least $2 billion, and this has both motivated and enabled the groups who are profiting from this activity to become more professional.
12 July 2023
"The attack consists of Python code that loads an XMRig Miner directly into memory using memfd, a known Linux fileless technique," security researchers Avigayil Mechtinger, Oren Ofer, and Itamar Gilad said.
12 July 2023
A new malware that targets small and home office (SOHO) routers has been discovered by Lumen Technologies. The malware has been named "AVrecon".
12 July 2023
At his first Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, Cyber Command’s deputy chief, will explain how he plans to fill the shoes of Paul Nakasone.
12 July 2023
The growing list of MOVEit cyberattack victims has grown. Sixty-two clients of Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young now appear on the Clop ransomware group's data leak sites.
12 July 2023
In Group-IB’s new Digital Risk Trends 2023 report, security researchers have recorded a 62% year-on-year (YoY) increase in phishing websites and a 304% surge in scam pages in 2022.
12 July 2023
IT and security leaders were surveyed on malware readiness. The report found that security leaders are concerned about malware compromising data.
12 July 2023
The vulnerability impacts FortiOS and FortiProxy versions 7.2.x and 7.0.x and was resolved in FortiOS versions 7.4.0, 7.2.4, and 7.0.11, and FortiProxy versions 7.2.3 and 7.0.10.
12 July 2023
According to StormWall’s Q2 2023 Report, the United States, India, and China remain the most heavily targeted countries, bearing the brunt of the escalating DDoS attacks.
12 July 2023
Diego Souza, Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Cummins, Inc., shares cybersecurity tactics and career advice in this AMA episode.
12 July 2023
In a new report, focused on the healthcare industry, found the primary use case was tele-emergency medical services.
12 July 2023
German enterprise software maker SAP on Tuesday announced the release of 16 new security notes as part of its July 2023 Security Patch Day. In addition, updates were announced for two previously released notes.
12 July 2023
Three Twitter accounts that appear to have links to the Chinese government have been spreading propaganda in Latin America and successfully avoided Twitter's efforts to label state media, researchers said in an analysis published Tuesday.
12 July 2023
The information and technology minister of Bangladesh, Zunaid Ahmed, told local media that the data was exposed due to security weaknesses of a website, not a cyberattack.
12 July 2023
Trend Micro has attributed the new activity cluster to the same threat actor that was previously identified as behind the FiveSys rootkit, which came to light in October 2021.
12 July 2023
The funds were raised in two investment rounds: $10 million in seed funding in 2021, and $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Canaan, with participation from previous investors Cyberstarts and Lightspeed.
12 July 2023
Ransomware has emerged as the only cryptocurrency-based crime to grow in 2023, with cybercriminals extorting nearly $175.8 million more than they did a year ago, according to findings from Chainalysis.
"Ransomware attackers are on pace for their second-biggest year ever, having extorted at least $449.1 million through June," the blockchain analytics firm said in a midyear crypto crime report