Cybersecurity
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The central bank of southern African country Lesotho is facing severe outages due to a cyberattack that was discovered earlier this week. The bank released multiple statements confirming that a recent incident affected several systems. The landlocked mountainous country is encircled by South Africa and has a population of more than 2 million. “The Central […]
Dec 16, 2023NewsroomCyber Security / Incident Response China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Friday unveiled draft proposals detailing its plans to tackle data security events in the country using a color-coded system. The effort is designed to “improve the comprehensive response capacity for data security incidents, to ensure timely and effective control, […]
A popular library in Ontario, Canada was forced to shut down most of its services this week due to a cyberattack — the latest library to face issues after hackers infiltrated its systems. The London Public Library, which services the Canadian city’s 422,000 residents, posted an alert on Wednesday afternoon warning that several branches would […]
Delta Dental of California and its affiliates have suffered a data breach, affecting almost seven million patients. The breach occurred through a vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer software, allowing unauthorized access by threat actors.
During this past year, we have seen an increase in the use of malicious ads (malvertising) and specifically those via search engines, to drop malware targeting businesses. In fact, browser-based attacks overall have been a lot more common if we include social engineering campaigns. Criminals have found success in acquiring new victims thanks to search […]
Dec 16, 2023NewsroomOnline Security / Cybercrime Microsoft is warning of an uptick in malicious activity from an emerging threat cluster it’s tracking as Storm-0539 for orchestrating gift card fraud and theft via highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks against retail entities during the holiday shopping season. The goal of the attacks is to propagate […]
Imperva Threat Research has detected previously undocumented activity from the 8220 gang, which is known for the mass deployment of malware using a variety of continuously evolving TTPs. This threat actor has been known to target both Windows and Linux web servers with cryptojacking malware. In this blog, we will detail recent activity, attack vectors […]
Ledger users are advised to avoid using web3 dApps following a supply chain attack on the Ledger dApp Connect Kit library, which resulted in the theft of $600,000 worth of crypto and NFTs.
The ALPHV ransomware gang, arguably the second most dangerous “big game” ransomware operator, appears to be back in business after its infrastructure went down for five days. But all does not appear to be going well for group. ALPHV’s dark web leak site may be back but it is only showing a single victim with […]