A report analyzing the Conti ransomware attack on Ireland's Health Services Executive in May provides insights into factors that played into the attack's impact and offers a list of recommendations on how HSE, as well as other organizations, can be better prepared for such incidents.
A new ongoing malware campaign is currently being distributed in the wild targeting TP-link wireless routers, leveraging a post-authenticated remote command execution, or RCE, vulnerability, according to FortiGuard Labs researchers.
Hellman Worldwide Logistics, one of the world's biggest logistics and shipping firms, is warning that its operations remain disrupted following an online attack of unspecified nature. The attack comes amid a busy season for e-commerce and shipping, with supply lines already stretched thin, experts say.
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Since Emotet malware returned last month, it's been dropping the Cobalt Strike penetration-testing tool directly onto infected endpoints shortly after infection, researchers say. The move could be a bid to more rapidly identify high-value systems for targeting with ransomware, some experts warn.
Cybersecurity experts worry about attacks and ransomware directed at the 70,000 water and wastewater facilities in the U.S. In November 2020, the Hampton Roads Sanitation District was infected with Ryuk ransomware. Fortunately, its operational technology systems were unaffected, and it recovered.
Two separate, massive cyber incidents recently occurred. One has disrupted services at 200 Nordic Choice Hotels in Europe, and the other - a cyberattack on a major supplier - has caused around 300 SPAR stores to temporarily close in the UK.
Most federal executive branch agencies in the U.S. now have vulnerability disclosure policies. John Jackson and Jackson Henry of the security research group Sakura Samurai say those policies ensure they don't get into legal trouble for helping improve cybersecurity.
Spyware from sanctioned Israeli firm NSO Group has reportedly been detected on at least nine iPhones belonging to U.S. State Department officials with "state.gov" email addresses, who are located in Uganda or whose work focuses on Uganda, according to Reuters.
Many ransomware-wielding attackers continue to rely on initial access brokers to easily gain deep access to victims' systems, allowing them to steal data and attempt to pressure victims into paying via data leak sites. Researchers say that the number of victims being listed on such sites has surged.
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A new variant of the Aberebot banking Trojan has been discovered by Cyble's researchers. Christened Aberebot-2.0, the latest malware version not only uses more advanced spying capabilities, it also has increased its target list to 213 banking apps and nine crypto wallets in 22 countries.
A recently discovered botnet is infecting thousands of AT&T internet subscribers in the U.S., using a critical-severity blind command injection flaw first reported in 2017, according to new findings from China-based cybersecurity researchers.
An Ohio-based DNA testing company reported to regulators that the information of more than 2.1 million individuals contained in a legacy database was accessed and acquired in a hacking incident detected in August. The archived database contained personal information collected more than a decade ago.
A new playbook, commissioned by the Food and Drug Administration, aims to help medical device manufacturers in developing and evolving threat modeling as an approach to strengthening the cybersecurity and safety of their products.
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