Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
20 May 2023
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of active exploitation of a medium-severity flaw affecting Samsung devices.
The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-21492 (CVSS score: 4.4), impacts select Samsung devices running Android versions 11, 12, and 13.
The South Korean electronics giant described the issue as an information disclosure flaw that could be exploited by a
19 May 2023
Hybrid distributor ScanScource announced that the company had suffered a ransomware attack and has implemented their incident response plan.
19 May 2023
About $4.8 million of those costs were related to continuing operations. The attack had a limited overall impact on its operations, with the main disruption occurring in its fresh vegetables and Chilean business.
19 May 2023
A cyberattack on Sysco, one of the world’s largest food distributors, gave hackers access to the sensitive personal information of more than 125,000 current and former employees.
19 May 2023
Offered under a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model since 2018, Golden Chickens has been used by the Russia-based Cobalt Group and FIN6 cybercrime rings to target organizations in various industries, causing financial losses or more than $1.4 billion.
19 May 2023
Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in SpiderOak, a Reston, Virginia-based leader in zero-trust cybersecurity and resiliency solutions for next-generation space systems. The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
19 May 2023
A newly discovered campaign related to the Bad Magic APT involved use of a modular framework dubbed CloudWizard. Its features include taking screenshots, microphone recording, keylogging, and more.
19 May 2023
Secure remote access is essential for industrial organizations, but many employees who took part in a recent survey by Cyolo expressed concerns about the associated risks.
19 May 2023
The rising use of biometric information has caused the FTC to issue a policy warning against the new technology and its potential misuse.
19 May 2023
After BleepingComputer contacted Luxottica about the published data, the firm confirmed that the leaked data came from a security incident that impacted a third-party contractor holding customer data.
19 May 2023
The Department of Justice revealed today that an 18-year-old man named Joseph Garrison from Wisconsin had been charged with hacking into the accounts of around 60,000 users of the DraftKings sports betting website in November 2022.
19 May 2023
Dunghill sent an email to TechTarget Editorial with a link to a Tor site that allegedly contained 5 TB of sensitive corporate data, including emails, client documents, and the personal data of 10,000 Gentex employees such as Social Security numbers.
19 May 2023
In a statement on Thursday to the Regulatory News Service — the formal mechanism for publicly listed companies in the U.K. to communicate to the market — Vesuvius said despite the episode, it had exceeded trading expectations.
19 May 2023
Google has announced plans to officially flip the switch on its twice-delayed Privacy Sandbox initiatives as it slowly works its way to deprecate support for third-party cookies in Chrome browser.
To that end, the search and advertising giant said it intends to phase out third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users globally in the first quarter of 2024.
"This will support developers in conducting
19 May 2023
The packages – named nodejs-encrypt-agent and nodejs-cookie-proxy-agent – were collectively downloaded approximately 1,200 times and were available for more than two months before they were identified and taken down.
19 May 2023
Security Validation has recently announced the appointment of Jonathan Hale as the new Chief Technology Officer.
19 May 2023
EyeMed Vision Care, a major eye insurance provider, will pay a fine of $2.5 million after settling a lawsuit from four states about a 2020 data breach that exposed the personal information of about 2.1 million people.
19 May 2023
The LockBit ransomware group on Tuesday published 1.5 terabytes of personal and financial information the group said it stole from Bank Syariah Indonesia after ransom negotiations broke down.
19 May 2023
Active Directory (AD) is among the oldest pieces of software still used in the production environment and can be found in most organizations today. This is despite the fact that its historical security gaps have never been amended. For example, because of its inability to apply any security measures beyond checking for a password and username match, AD (as well the resources it manages) is
19 May 2023
The new quality rating system, the internet giant says, should encourage researchers to provide more details on the identified security defects and should also help address them faster.