December 1, 2020 Cyberbiological Attack Could Fool Scientists into Creating and Using Dangerous DNA A new, theoretical cyberattack has been described by a team of researchers at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in Israel that could be used in a devastating ... Read more
November 30, 2020 Cyberattacks Increased During the Pandemic as Enterprises Struggled with Security with a Remote Workforce A recent study conducted by the California based endpoint security and systems management company Tanium suggests enterprises have struggled with security during the pandemic and ... Read more
November 27, 2020 Egregor Ransomware Vying to Become the Top Ransomware Threat The Maze ransomware gang may have shut down its operation, but there is now a new ransomware variant that is vying to take its place ... Read more
November 23, 2020 FBI Issues Warning Following Increase in Ragnar Locker Ransomware Activity A recent increase in Ragnar Locker ransomware activity has prompted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to issue a warning to private industry partners. The ... Read more
November 13, 2020 Ransomware Gang Uses Hacked Facebook Account to Run Adverts Threatening Release of Campari Group Data It is now common for ransomware gangs to steal data prior to encrypting files and to issue threats to publish or sell the stolen data ... Read more
November 9, 2020 RansomEXX Ransomware Now Targets Windows and Linux Servers Kaspersky has announced it has discovered a Linux version of RansomEXX ransomware – aka Defray777. This is one of the first times that a Windows ... Read more
November 5, 2020 October Threat Report Shows 1,200% Increase in Emotet Attacks in Q3, 2020 New data from HP Inc. shows cyberattacks involving the Emotet Trojan increased by more than 1,200% between Q2, 2020 and Q3, 2020. The data for ... Read more
October 29, 2020 Three Data Breaches Result in $1m HIPAA Penalty for Aetna Aetna Life Insurance Company and the affiliated covered entity (Aetna) have settled a HIPAA compliance violation case with the Department of Health and Human Services’ ... Read more
October 29, 2020 Maze Ransomware Gang Shuts Down Operations The Maze ransomware gang, which operated one to the most prolific ransomware campaigns over the past 18 months year, has shut down. The Maze ransomware ... Read more
October 26, 2020 French IT Giant Suffers Ryuk Ransomware Attack One of the largest French information technology consultancies, Sopra Steri, has been hit with a serious ransomware attack that forced its systems offline. Sopra Steri ... Read more
October 22, 2020 Top 25 Vulnerabilities Exploited by Chinese State Sponsored Hackers Chinese state-backed hackers are targeting U.S. organizations for espionage purposes, with access to computer systems usually gained by exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities. Hackers are scanning for ... Read more
October 21, 2020 DOJ Charges 6 GRU Hackers for NotPetya Wiper Attacks The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted six Russian intelligence operatives for the 2017 NotPetya malware attacks and other major hacking operations. All six individuals ... Read more
October 20, 2020 Ryuk Ransomware Gang Uses Zerologon Exploit to Achieve Domain-Wide Encryption in Just 5 Hours The threat actors behind Ryuk ransomware have started using an exploit for the Zerologon privilege escalation flaw, CVE-2020-1472, which has allowed them to perform ransomware ... Read more
October 12, 2020 Facilitating or Paying a Ransomware Payment will Lead to Sanctions: US Treasury Department The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has warned that companies that facilitate ransom payments to cybercriminals on behalf of victims of ... Read more
October 9, 2020 Clinical Trial Software Provider Hit with Ransomware Attack eResearch, a software company from Philadelphia, which sells software used in vital research on Covid-19, was hit with a ransomware attack that has affected many ... Read more
October 7, 2020 CISA Issues Emotet Malware Alert Following Sharp Increase in Attacks The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert about Emotet malware following an increase in successful attacks on ... Read more
October 5, 2020 Sanctions and Penalties Could be Imposed for Paying Ransomware Payments Following a ransomware attack, many firms choose to pay the ransom demand to obtain the keys to decrypt files and prevent the sale or publication ... Read more
October 5, 2020 Some Blackbaud Customers had Sensitive Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack Blackbaud has confirmed in a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Form 8-K filing that the ransomware attack it experienced in May 2020 did ... Read more
September 28, 2020 Windows XP Source Code Leaked Online Anyone still using Windows XP has been given an additional reason to finally upgrade to a supported Windows operating system. The source code for Windows ... Read more
September 26, 2020 Breach of 6 Million Records and Multiple HIPAA Failures Leads to $2.3 Million HIPAA Fine for Business Associate The Tennessee-based management company CHSPSC LLC, a supplier of services to a range of different subsidiary hospital operator companies and other affiliates of Community Health ... Read more
September 22, 2020 Member of The Dark Overlord Hacking Group Sentenced in the United States A Federal court in Missouri has sentenced a British member of the Dark Overlord hacking group to 60 months in jail and has been ordered ... Read more
September 21, 2020 Maze Ransomware now Uses Virtual Machines to Evade Endpoint Defenses The operators of Maze ransomware have adopted a new tactic to evade endpoint security solutions. The gang has been observed encrypting computers from inside virtual ... Read more
September 17, 2020 Outbound Email Volume Grows During Pandemic, Increasing the Risk of an Email Data Breach A recent survey conducted on 538 IT leaders has revealed 93% have experienced a data breach as a result of an email error, with 70% ... Read more
September 16, 2020 Cyberattack on U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Impacts 46,000 Veterans The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has announced that the personal and protected health information of approximately 46,000 veterans has potentially been obtained by ... Read more
September 11, 2020 Ireland Facebook Ordered to Stop Data Transfers to US by Irish DPO A preliminary order has been handed down by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) ordering Facebook to stop sending personal data transfers from Ireland to the ... Read more
September 11, 2020 Hacking Group Observed Installing Weave Scope Tool to Gain Visibility and Control of Business Cloud Environments The threat detection and response firm Intezer has observed a hacking group using the Weave Scope visualization and monitoring tool to gain visibility into and ... Read more
September 8, 2020 Losses to BEC Attacks Increased by 48% in Q2, 2020 New data released by Agari show there has been a significant increase in losses to business email compromise attacks in Q2, 2020, increasing by 48% ... Read more
September 7, 2020 CISA Issues Guidance on Malicious Network Activity Detection and Incident Response The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory offering technical guidance on identifying malicious activity and ... Read more
September 3, 2020 Gartner Predicts CEOs Will be Held Personally Liable Cyber-Physical Incidents by 2024 Garter has predicted 75% of CEOs will be held personally liable for attacks on cyber-physical systems (CPSs) by 2024. CPSs are defined by Gartner as ... Read more
August 15, 2020 TikTok Data Management Being Investigated by CNIL in France It has been revealed that the data protection authority in France, the CNIL, is about to review the data operations of TikTok. TikTok has been ... Read more