Ransomware Attackers Set Their Sights on SaaS
Ransomware has begun to target data-heavy SaaS applications, open source, and Web and application frameworks.Ransomware attacks have begun to more heavily target software applications, open source tools, and Web...
Cyberattacks in Ukraine Soon Could Spill Over to Other Countries
Most cyberattacks in Ukraine continue to be planned and highly targeted, but there are some signs that this soon may change.
One indication is a new Trojan dubbed FoxBlade, which...
Mandia: Keep ‘Shields Up’ to Survive the Current Escalation of Cyberattacks
RSA CONFERENCE 2022 – San Francisco – Back in the early 2000s when Mandiant was a small consulting firm in Northern Virginia, Kevin Mandia typically worked on just one incident...
Cyber Conflict Overshadowed a Major Government Ransomware Alert
As the cyber dimension of the Ukraine conflict erupted, demonstrating the ungoverned and unstable nature of full-on cyberwar, a parallel ransomware alert from the US government got comparatively scant...
Toyota Halts Production After Suspected Supply Chain Attack
Japanese automobile giant Toyota says it will halt production at all 28 lines of its 14 plants in Japan starting March 1, after a "system failure" at a supplier...
Phishing Bonanza: Social-Engineering Savvy Skyrockets as Malicious Actors Cash In
This week, it came to light that gaming platform Roblox was breached via a phishing/social-engineering attack that led to the theft of internal documents and the leaking of them online...
Brute-Force Attacks, Vulnerability Exploits Top Initial Attack Vectors
The more things change, the more they appear to remain the same — at least as far as some enterprise cybersecurity practices go.
A new analysis of data from security...
Securing the 2020 Election: ‘We’re Not Out of the Woods Yet’
Election Day brought instances of misinformation, robocalls, and technical glitches, but officials are more worried about coming days and weeks.Election Day in the US followed an unprecedented season of...
Microsoft: We Don’t Want to Zero-Day Our Customers
BLACK HAT USA — Las Vegas — A top Microsoft security executive today defended the company's vulnerability disclosure policies as providing enough information for security teams to make informed...
SolarWinds Attackers May Have Hit Mimecast, Driving New Concerns
Mimecast no longer uses the SolarWinds Orion network management software that served as an attack vector for thousands of organizations.The discovery of a data breach at email service provider...
