Large US hospital chain hobbled by Ryuk ransomware
US-based healtchare giant Universal Health Services (UHS) has suffered a cyberattack on Sunday morning, which resulted in the IT network across its facilities to be shut down. …
Credential stuffing is just the tip of the iceberg
Credential stuffing attacks are taking up a lot of the oxygen in cybersecurity rooms these days. A steady blitz of large-scale cybersecurity breaches in recent years have …
Nine out of ten IT pros have experienced a data breach
Exonar, has today published research revealing that 94 percent of IT pros have experienced a data breach, and an overwhelming majority (79 percent) are worried that their …
6,600 organizations bombarded with 100,000+ BEC attacks
Cybercriminals are increasingly registering accounts with legitimate services, such as Gmail and AOL, to use them in impersonation and BEC attacks, according to Barracuda …
DDoS attacks in April, May and June 2020 double compared to Q2 2019
Findings from Link11’s H1 2020 DDoS Report reveal a resurgence in DDoS attacks during the global COVID-19 related lockdowns. In April, May and June 2020, the number of …
Cybercriminals are developing and boosting their attacks
An INTERPOL assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on cybercrime has shown a significant target shift from individuals and small businesses to major corporations, governments …
Analysis of 92 billion rejected emails uncovers threat actors’ motivations
Mimecast released the Threat Intelligence Report: Black Hat U.S.A. Edition 2020, which presents insights gleaned from the analysis of 195 billion emails processed by Mimecast …
20% of credential stuffing attacks target media companies
The media industry suffered 17 billion credential stuffing attacks between January 2018 and December 2019, according to a report from Akamai. The apparent fourfold increase in …
Hackers breached six Cisco servers through SaltStack Salt vulnerabilities
Earlier this month, when F-Secure publicly revealed the existence of two vulnerabilities affecting SaltStack Salt and attackers started actively exploiting them, Cisco was …
Attackers exploiting a zero-day in Sophos firewalls, have yours been hit?
Sophos has released an emergency hotfix for an actively exploited zero-day SQL injection vulnerability in its XG Firewalls, and has rolled it out to all units with the …
Distributed disruption: Coronavirus multiplies the risk of severe cyberattacks
The coronavirus pandemic is upending everything we know. As the tally of infected people grows by the hour, global healthcare, economic, political, and social systems are …
Hackers try to breach WHO, other COVID-19-fighting orgs
“Elite” hackers have tried – and failed – to breach computer systems and networks of the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this month, Reuters …