LA School District Ransomware Attackers Now Threaten to Leak Stolen Data
The clock is ticking for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) — the second largest in the country. Following a ransomware attack at the beginning of the month,...
SolarMarker Attack Leverages Weak WordPress Sites, Fake Chrome Browser Updates
Researchers have discovered the cyberattack group behind the SolarMarker malware targeting a global tax consulting organization with a presence in the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe, which is...
Microsoft Confirms Pair of Blindsiding Exchange Zero-Days, No Patch Yet
Microsoft is fast-tracking patches for two Exchange Server zero-day vulnerabilities reported overnight, but in the meantime, businesses should be on the lookout for attacks. The computing giant said in...
Cybercriminals See Allure in BEC Attacks Over Ransomware
While published trends in ransomware attacks have been contradictory — with some firms tracking more incidents and other fewer — business email compromise (BEC) attacks continue to have proven...
Reshaping the Threat Landscape: Deepfake Cyberattacks Are Here
Malicious campaigns involving the use of deepfake technologies are a lot closer than many might assume. Furthermore, mitigation and detection of them are hard.
A new study of the use...
Enterprises embrace devsecops practices against supply chain attacks
For enterprise security professionals alarmed about the rising number of supply chain attacks, a report released this week by Google and supply chain security firm Chainguard has good news:...
Dangerous New Attack Technique Compromising VMware ESXi Hypervisors
VMware issued urgent new mitigation measures and guidance on Sept. 29 for customers of its vSphere virtualization technology after Mandiant reported detecting a China-based threat actor using a troubling...
Ransomware Attacks Continue Increasing: 20% of All Reported Attacks Occurred in the Last 12...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly a quarter of businesses have suffered a ransomware attack, with a fifth occurring in the past 12 months, according to a latest...
Ex-NSA employee charged with violating Espionage Act, selling U.S. cyber secrets
Written by Suzanne Smalley Sep 29, 2022 |...
Five Steps to Mitigate the Risk of Credential Exposure
By: The Hacker News
Every year, billions of credentials appear online, be it on the dark web, clear web, paste sites, or in data dumps shared by cybercriminals. These credentials...
