Holiday Spirit? LockBit Gives Children’s Hospital Free Decryptor
After being hit by the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) apparatus, the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) received an unexpected holiday gift: A free decryptor and an apology from the cybercriminal...
Beyond the Obvious: The Boldest Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023
The end of the year is upon us, and that means predictions — lots and lots of predictions. And no wonder: With 2022 in the books, cybersecurity professionals worth...
New Year’s Surprise: Cybersecurity M&A, Funding Activity Snowballs in Q4
Mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity and investments in cybersecurity picked up once again in the fourth quarter after dropping off somewhat sharply in Q3. The activity put the sector...
Will the Crypto Crash Impact Cybersecurity in 2023? Maybe.
With the implosion of the FTX exchange putting a punctuation mark on the cryptocurrency crash of 2022, one of the natural questions for those in the cybersecurity world is,...
Google: With Cloud Comes APIs & Security Headaches
Web application programming interfaces (APIs) are the glue that holds together cloud applications and infrastructure, but these endpoints are increasingly under attack, with half of companies acknowledging an API-related...
Videoconferencing Worries Grow, With SMBs in Cyberattack Crosshairs
It's no secret that the acceleration of work-from-home and distributed workforce trends — infamously spurred on by the pandemic — has occurred in tandem with the rise of video...
Biden Signs Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Guidelines Into Law
On Dec. 21, the US government's plan for transitioning to post-quantum cryptography became law, committing the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to scope out compliance with the recent...
Zerobot Adds Brute Force, DDoS to Its IoT Attack Arsenal
A recently discovered botnet that attacks organizations through Internet of things (IoT) vulnerabilities has added brute-forcing and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack vectors, as well as the ability to exploit...
Ransomware Attackers Bypass Microsoft’s ProxyNotShell Mitigations With Fresh Exploit
The operators of a ransomware strain called Play have developed a new exploit chain for a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Exchange Server that Microsoft patched in...
Godfather Banking Trojan Masquerades as Legitimate Google Play App
A type of Android malware that's been targeting banking users worldwide since March has resurfaced with advanced obfuscation methods, masquerading as a legitimate application on the Google Play store with...
