Cybersecurity
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A cyberattack on a North Carolina county has forced officials to call in the state’s national guard for assistance. In a message to residents on Tuesday, Bladen County said it became the victims of a cyberattack last week. The county — tucked in the southern point of the state about an hour away from Wilmington […]
The spree of attacks against MOVEit environments in May, which are still cascading to downstream victims five months later, capped a concentrated period of damaging attacks against file-transfer services. Progress Software’s MOVEit, Fortra’s GoAnywhere and IBM Aspera Faspex were hit by supply-chain attacks over a three-month span starting in March this year. Clop, the ransomware […]
Nov 15, 2023NewsroomCyber Crime / Network Security The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the takedown of the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure, as the Russian and Moldovan national behind the operation pleaded guilty. “The botnet infrastructure had infected Windows systems then further expanded to infect Linux, Mac, and Android devices, victimizing computers and […]
AlphaLock’s business model represents a new and sophisticated approach to cybercrime, creating a pipeline of trained hackers and monetizing their services through an affiliate program.
Cyble Completes Expanded Series B, Raising $30.2 Million to Advance Its AI Capabilities Cyble, an Atlanta, GA-based cybersecurity company, raised additional $6.2M in Series B funding. The round, which brought the total amount to $30.2M, was led by Summit Peak Ventures (US) and King River Capital (US) with participation from Care Super (Australia) and BlackBird Ventures […]
Russian state-sponsored hackers have targeted embassies and international organizations in a recent cyber-espionage campaign, Ukrainian government cybersecurity researchers have found. The attacks were attributed to the infamous hacker group labeled APT29, also known as Cozy Bear or Blue Bravo. Analysts previously have linked it to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), which gathers political and economic […]
Rackspace Technology recorded $5 million in expenses for the first nine months of this year, stemming from the December 2022 ransomware attack of the company’s Hosted Exchange business, according to a 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed email solution for small- and medium-sized businesses represented about 1% of the company’s revenue […]
Researchers have discovered a vulnerability named CacheWarp in AMD’s SEV trusted execution environment, which can lead to arbitrary code execution, exposure of sensitive data, or privilege escalation within a guest VM.
Nov 15, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new technique that exploits a critical security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to achieve arbitrary code execution in memory. Tracked as CVE-2023-46604 (CVSS score: 10.0), the vulnerability is a remote code execution bug that could permit a threat actor to run arbitrary shell commands. It was […]