Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
19 December 2023
The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) has officially announced the disruption of the BlackCat ransomware operation and released a decryption tool that victims can use to regain access to files locked by the malware.
Court documents show that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) enlisted the help of a confidential human source (CHS) to act as an affiliate for the BlackCat and gain
19 December 2023
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of the ransomware operation led by Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a Russian national who was indicted by the U.S. government earlier this year for his alleged role in launching thousands of attacks across the world.
Matveev, who resides in Saint Petersburg and is known by the aliases Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, Uhodiransomwar,
19 December 2023
One of Westpole's customers, PA Digitale, which serves 1300 public administrations including 540 municipalities, was targeted. The incident has led to manual operations for some services and may affect salary payments.
19 December 2023
CISA has partnered with federal U.S. and Australian organizations to release a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) about Play ransomware.
19 December 2023
According to a recent Netwrix report, 77% of financial organizations detected a cyberattack in the last year, compared to 68% in other industries.
19 December 2023
The breach occurred after attackers exploited a critical vulnerability, known as Citrix Bleed, that had been actively exploited as a zero-day since August 2023. The company has asked users to reset their passwords.
19 December 2023
Attackers can exploit SMTP smuggling to send spoofed emails with fake sender addresses, bypassing email security checks and putting organizations and individuals at risk for targeted phishing attacks.
19 December 2023
Threat actors are increasingly making use of GitHub for malicious purposes through novel methods, including abusing secret Gists and issuing malicious commands via git commit messages.
"Malware authors occasionally place their samples in services like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Discord to host second stage malware and sidestep detection tools," ReversingLabs researcher Karlo Zanki
19 December 2023
The report provides guidance on open source software adoption, including criteria for selection, risk assessment, licensing, export control, maintenance, vulnerability response, and secure software delivery.
19 December 2023
In a filing with the Maine Attorney General, dental and medical products supplier Henry Schein announced more than 29,000 people were potentially affected from a recent data breach.
19 December 2023
In a filing with the Maine Attorney General, dental and medical products supplier Henry Schein announced more than 29,000 people were potentially affected from a recent data breach.
19 December 2023
Manufacturers are advised to follow Secure by Design principles, provide unique setup passwords or disable them after a preset time period, and implement phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication methods to mitigate these risks.
19 December 2023
Some of you have already started budgeting for 2024 and allocating funds to security areas within your organization. It is safe to say that employee security awareness training is one of the expenditure items, too. However, its effectiveness is an open question with people still engaging in insecure behaviors at the workplace. Besides, social engineering remains one of the most prevalent attacks
19 December 2023
Gas stations in Iran experienced widespread disruptions due to a cyberattack claimed by the group Predatory Sparrow, which has previously targeted Iranian critical infrastructure.
19 December 2023
The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has leveraged a newly discovered command-and-control (C2) framework called MuddyC2Go in its attacks on the telecommunications sector in Egypt, Sudan, and Tanzania.
The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, is tracking the activity under the name Seedworm, which is also tracked under the monikers Boggy Serpens, Cobalt
19 December 2023
The malware loader known as PikaBot is being distributed as part of a malvertising campaign targeting users searching for legitimate software like AnyDesk.
"PikaBot was previously only distributed via malspam campaigns similarly to QakBot and emerged as one of the preferred payloads for a threat actor known as TA577," Malwarebytes' Jérôme Segura said.
The malware family,
19 December 2023
VF Corporation, one of the largest apparel companies in the world, reported a cyberattack to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the first day of a new cyber incident reporting rule.
19 December 2023
The SEC does not aim to manage security but wants better disclosures. The final rule requires the disclosure of material cybersecurity incidents, but does not require specific technical details to avoid providing a roadmap for future attacks.
19 December 2023
The external assessment did not identify any significant vulnerabilities that would allow easy access to the organization's network, but the internal assessment revealed multiple weaknesses that led to domain compromise.
19 December 2023
The Financial Stability Oversight Council has classified artificial intelligence as an "emerging vulnerability" in the financial system, acknowledging both its potential for innovation and the risks it poses.