Cybersecurity
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A hospital near Kansas City, Missouri, is struggling to provide care to patients this week after a cyberattack limited its systems. In an update on Wednesday, Liberty Hospital said it was still dealing with disruptions to its computer systems that began on Tuesday. The facility initially had to transfer some patients to other hospitals, but […]
When shopping for a new smartphone, you’re likely to look for the best bang for your buck. If you’re on the hunt for a top-of-the-range device but aren’t keen on paying top dollar for it, offerings from lesser-known manufacturers will probably make your shortlist. Indeed, in the fiercely competitive smartphone market you may be even […]
A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report on the cybersecurity of genomic data found major privacy gaps in how the data is generated, stored and shared. The paper argues that a NIST privacy framework focusing on the uniqueness of genomic data sensitivity should be established to help organizations that aggregate the data […]
Dec 22, 2023NewsroomMalware / Cyber Attack The threat actor known as UAC-0099 has been linked to continued attacks aimed at Ukraine, some of which leverage a high-severity flaw in the WinRAR software to deliver a malware strain called LONEPAGE. “The threat actor targets Ukrainian employees working for companies outside of Ukraine,” cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct […]
A bug on a popular Yahoo sports betting platform appears to have allowed people to cheat by placing bets after the games had already been decided. The issue affecting Yahoo’s Survival Football game was discovered by a discerning player who noticed that one of his opponents kept winning thanks to games played on Thursday nights. […]
AlphV re-emerged within hours of a law enforcement takedown of its infrastructure on Tuesday, claiming it had “unseized” its data leak site, according to threat researchers’ dark web observations. The prolific ransomware group named a new victim organization and updated a post on a previously claimed victim since the FBI and international law enforcement agencies […]
Dec 22, 2023NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Supply Chain Attack Organizations in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) sector are in the crosshairs of an Iranian threat actor as part of a campaign designed to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor called FalseFont. The findings come from Microsoft, which is tracking the activity under its weather-themed moniker Peach Sandstorm (formerly […]
Ivanti’s Avalanche enterprise MDM solution has been found to have 13 critical security vulnerabilities, including buffer overflow weaknesses, that can be exploited by attackers to gain remote code execution on unpatched systems.
Dec 21, 2023NewsroomZero-Day / Mobile Security A new analysis of the sophisticated commercial spyware called Predator has revealed that its ability to persist between reboots is offered as an “add-on feature” and that it depends on the licensing options opted by a customer. “In 2021, Predator spyware couldn’t survive a reboot on the infected Android […]