Jan 11, 2024NewsroomCybersecurity / Zero-Day A pair of zero-day flaws identified in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and Policy Secure have been chained by suspected China-linked nation-state actors to breach less than 10 customers. Cybersecurity firm Volexity, which identified the activity on the network of one of its customers in the second week of December 2023, […]
Jan 11, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Patch Management Cisco has released software updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Unity Connection that could permit an adversary to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying system. Tracked as CVE-2024-20272 (CVSS score: 7.3), the vulnerability is an arbitrary file upload bug residing in the web-based management interface and is […]
The cybersecurity sector recorded 346 funding rounds and 91 mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions in 2023, according to cyber recruitment firm Pinpoint Search Group. This equals 437 cyber deals in total and a 40% increase from 2022, which saw 303 deals signed in the sector. However, the overall cyber investment raised in 2023 only amounted […]
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Post-Breach List of Affected Individuals Growing; More Lawsuits Filed Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • January 9, 2024 Breach reports and lawsuits continue to pile up in some major health data hacks first reported months ago. (Image: Getty) Fallout is mounting, and new […]
Down to the Bone The sudden closure of DJ Bone’ s 25-year-old Subject Detroit label, to be replaced by a new label, FURTHER, remains somewhat of a mystery at present. We’re not going to pretend that the video of dancing santas wishing the FURTHER family a merry Christmas left us any the wiser, either. But […]
Distributed denial of service attacks hit an all-time high in 2023, more than doubling year over year in the fourth quarter, Cloudflare said Tuesday in a threat report. The record high year for DDoS attacks coincided with mass exploits of the novel zero-day vulnerability HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, which threat actors used to launch DDoS attacks […]
What is the GNU project? The GNU project is a mass collaborative initiative for the development of free software, specifically a free operating system called GNU. Of course, “free”, in a software context, does not necessarily mean “free of cost”. Rather, free refers to the freedom that users have to use, study, share and improve […]
Last week, Tigo Business, a division of Paraguay’s largest mobile carrier, suffered a cyberattack that impacted their cloud and hosting services. While it did not confirm the attack, reports suggest that it was targeted by the Black Hunt ransomware.
In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges. But there is a fascinating and untold backstory behind the two Russian men involved, who co-ran […]