Attackers use public cloud providers to spread RATs
A campaign that uses public cloud service providers to spread malware has been discovered by Cisco Talos. The offensive is the latest example of threat...
Homelife of Connecticut Residents Secretly Recorded
Homelife of Connecticut Residents Secretly Recorded A man from Connecticut has been arrested on suspicion of using digital devices to record his neighbors. Waterford resident Keith Hancock...
Pennsylvania Approves Ransomware Bill
Pennsylvania Approves Ransomware Bill Pennsylvania has approved new legislation barring state and local governments from using taxpayers’ money to pay ransoms to cyber-criminals. Senate Bill 726,...
Crime Shop Sells Hacked Logins to Other Crime Shops
Up for the “Most Meta Cybercrime Offering” award this year is Accountz Club, a new cybercrime store that sells access to purloined accounts at services...
Memorial Health System Confirms Data Breach
Memorial Health System Confirms Data Breach A cyber-attack on an Ohio-based health system may have exposed the protected health information (PHI) of 216,478 patients. Memorial Health System was...
China’s Olympics App Is Horribly Insecure
China is mandating that athletes download and use a health and travel app when they attend the Winter Olympics next month. Citizen Lab examined the...
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco Products Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cisco Products, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe...
McAfee, FireEye merger yields Trellix, a unified XDR security company
Trellix, a new company formed from the merger of cybersecurity giants McAfee Enterprise and FireEye, is intent on becoming the leader in XDR (extended detection...
(ISC)2 Appoints its First CISO
(ISC)2 Appoints its First CISO (ISC)2 has announced the appointment of Jon France, CISSP, as its first chief information security officer (CISO). The non-profit association...
Two-Fifths of Ransomware Victims Still Paying Up
Two-Fifths of Ransomware Victims Still Paying Up Two-fifths (39%) of ransomware victims paid their extorters over the past three years, with the majority of these...