US banks brace for cyberattacks amid harsher Russian sanctions
As the West tightens its financial grip on Russia by introducing increasingly more “stringent” sanctions, US banks are preparing to be hit with a wave of cyberattacks.
Russia is currently...
Insurance giant AON hacked
A multinational company that offers cybersecurity services has itself fallen victim to a hacking attack over the weekend. It is not yet known who was responsible.
Professional services and insurance...
Phishing Attack in Ukraine Could Be Prelude to Disinformation Campaign
One indication of the wide scope of cyberattacks in Ukraine is a phishing campaign focused on breaking into email accounts of the country's military personnel and potentially using them...
Hackers breach Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation
The group known as “AgainstTheWest” (ATW) published claims to have breached the company founded by Vladimir Putin himself.
The screenshots ATW has posted on Twitter indicate that the group has...
Companies Borrow Attack Technique to Watermark Machine Learning Models
Computer scientists and researchers are increasingly investigating techniques that can create backdoors in machine-learning (ML) models — first to understand the potential threat, but also as an anti-copying protection...
A simultaneous breach: dealing with two ransomware groups on the same day
Conti and Karma ransomware groups attacked a healthcare provider simultaneously using the same unpatched Microsoft Exchange Server.While it's common for ransomware groups to apply double and triple extortion tactics...
A sophisticated Chinese hacking tool evaded attention for a decade – research
The tool was designed for attacks against hardened networks in espionage campaigns against select governments and other critical infrastructure targets.
Researchers at Symantec claim to have discovered a highly sophisticated...
