NCSC to Offer Cyber Governance Guidance to Boards
Boardrooms must play a critical role in managing cyber-risk for their organization, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has...
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U-Haul Informs Customers of Major Data Breach
U-Haul has been forced to notify tens of thousands of customers that their personal data was compromised in a breach...
Avast Faces $16.5m Fine for Unlawfully Selling User Browsing Data
UK-based cybersecurity firm Avast will be fined $16.5m by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for selling customer web browsing...
White House Urges Tech Industry to Eliminate Memory Safety Vulnerabilities
The White House has called on the tech industry to adopt memory safe programming languages, eliminating most memory safety vulnerabilities...
CISA Issues Alert on APT29’s Cloud Infiltration Tactics
A recent joint advisory released by CISA in collaboration with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and other domestic...
Expert Warns of Growing Android Malware Activity
Kaspersky has unveiled its annual analysis of the mobile threat landscape, revealing a striking 52% surge in attacks on mobile...
Active Exploitation of Multiple Vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect Software
ConnectWise has released security updates addressing multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-1708 and CVE-2024-1709) affecting their ScreenConnect software. The vulnerabilities are reportedly being...
Lockbit Ransomware Returns Restores Servers After Police Disruption
The LockBit gang is relaunching its ransomware operation on a new infrastructure less than a week after law enforcement hacked...
Paypal Files Patent For New Method To Detect Stolen Cookies
PayPal has filed a patent application for a novel method that can identify when "super-cookie" is stolen, which could improve the...
Rcmp Investigating Cyber Attack As Its Website Remains Down
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada's national police force has disclosed that it recently faced a cyber attack targeting...
Apple Adds Pq3 Quantum Resistant Encryption To Imessage
Apple is adding to the iMessage instant messaging service a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol named PQ3, designed to defend encryption from quantum...
Unitedhealth Confirms Optum Hack Behind Us Healthcare Billing Outage
Healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group confirmed that its subsidiary Optum was forced to shut down IT systems and various services after...
New Screenconnect Rce Flaw Exploited In Ransomware Attacks
Update February 23, 07:02 EST: Sophos published a report today saying that the ransomware payloads they spotted were built using the LockBit...
Lockbit Ransomware Gang Has Over 110 Million In Unspent Bitcoin
The LockBit ransomware gang received more than $125 million in ransom payments over the past 18 months, according to the...
Insomniac Games Alerts Employees Hit By Ransomware Data Breach
Sony subsidiary Insomniac Games is sending data breach notification letters to employees whose personal information was stolen and leaked online...
U Haul Says Hacker Accessed Customer Records Using Stolen Creds
U-Haul has started informing customers that a hacker used stolen account credentials to access an internal system for dealers and...
78% of Organizations Suffer Repeat Ransomware Attacks After Paying
Almost four in five (78%) of organizations who paid a ransom demand were hit by a second ransomware attack, often...
ICO Bans Serco Leisure’s Use of Facial Recognition for Employee Attendance
Serco Leisure has been ordered to stop using facial recognition technology (FRT) and fingerprint scanning to monitor employee attendance by...
Operation Cronos: Who Are the LockBit Admins
Read more about LockBit Ransomware: LockBit Takedown: What You Need to Know about Operation CronosLockBit Infrastructure Disrupted by Global Law...
Lockbit Ransomware Secretly Building Next Gen Encryptor Before Takedown
LockBit ransomware developers were secretly building a new version of their file encrypting malware, dubbed LockBit-NG-Dev - likely to become...
Screenconnect Servers Hacked In Lockbit Ransomware Attacks
Attackers are exploiting a maximum severity authentication bypass vulnerability to breach unpatched ScreenConnect servers and deploy LockBit ransomware payloads on...
Bitwardens New Auto Fill Option Adds Phishing Resistance
The Bitwarden open-source password management service has introduced a new inline auto-fill menu that addresses the risk of user credentials being...
Ftc To Ban Avast From Selling Browsing Data For Advertising Purposes
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will order Avast to pay $16.5 million and ban the company from selling the...
Cyber Pros Embrace AI, Over 80% Believe It Will Enhance Jobs
Most cybersecurity professionals believe that AI will have a positive impact on their jobs, helping alleviate pressures caused by the...
