Category: CYBER SECURITY

A man charged with conducting ransomware attacks against multiple victims, including the July 2021 attack against Kaseya, made his initial appearance and was arraigned today in the Northern District of Texas.

FBI says the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has breached the networks of at least 52 organizations from multiple US critical infrastructure sectors.

Russia shared a list of 17,576 IP addresses allegedly used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting Russian organizations and their networks.

Cyber-criminals linked to the Anonymous hacking group have broken into a website belonging to Russia's Space Research Institute (IKI) and leaked files that allegedly belong to the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

Facing massive cyber-attacks from Russia-sponsored threat actors, Ukraine has now assembled an 'IT army' tasked with specific cyber challenges, which reached nearly 200k users on Telegram on Monday.

Hackers linked to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security are exploiting bugs to conduct cyber espionage and other malicious attacks against organizations globally including in Asia, the US, and the UK, cyber and law authorities have warned.

As Russia began military operations against Ukraine, key Ukrainian government websites were down early on Thursday as multiple cyberattacks hit the country.

Ukraine's Ministry of Defence has suffered a major cyberattack that prevented users from accessing its website, amid heightened tensions with Russia.

The US state of Texas has sued Meta for using its facial recognition technology without users' consent, seeking financial damages.

This vulnerability made it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries by appending them to an existing SQL query.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said that Americans reported record high losses of $547 million to romance scams in 2021, up almost 80% compared to 2020 and over six times compared to losses reported in 2017.

Avast has released a decryption utility to help TargetCompany ransomware victims recover their files for free.

Morley Companies which provides services to several Fortune 500 companies, has admitted it was hit with a ransomware attack that led to the leak of sensitive information for more than 500,000 people.

This flaw made it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious JavaScript that would execute whenever a site administrator accessed the template editor. This vulnerability would also allow them to modify the email template to contain arbitrary data that could be used to perform...

More than 95,000 people reported about $770 million in losses to fraud initiated on social media platforms in 2021.

Unpatched vulnerabilities remain the most prominent attack vectors exploited by ransomware groups and in 2021, 65 new vulnerabilities tied to ransomware were discovered, representing a 29 per cent growth over 2020 and bringing the total number of vulnerabilities associated with ransomware to 288, a new...

Amid the heightened Russia-Ukraine border tensions, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned that critical infrastructure and local government networks are at a "very high risk" of a mega cyberattack sponsored by the Russian government.

latform was hit by a $34 million hack, its CEO Kris Marszalek has been forced to respond on social media how best they can get back their accounts.