The company initially took some systems offline to contain the breach. Although the nature of the incident was not immediately disclosed, LockBit ransomware claimed responsibility for the attack.
The malicious packages were disguised as legitimate Python packages, and although they have been removed from PyPI, they were downloaded over 3,000 times, compromising thousands of systems.
A previously unpublished interview with the former Can frontman Fortune favours the brave, they say. Although they also say that you should never meet your idols. Luckily, in retrospect, when you’re a journalist scouring a backstage bar with your director and camera person in tow, and you bump into the lead singer of one of […]
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-6553, can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers without user interaction. Although a patch has been released, almost 50,000 WordPress websites still remain vulnerable to this critical security flaw.
Although US federal agencies have made progress in preparing for and responding to cyber threats, too many have failed to meet the deadline to implement incident response capabilities required by law, according to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). In a new report, published on December 4, 2023, the GAO found that 20 US federal […]
Data breaches are a dime a dozen. Although it’s easy to look at that statement negatively, the positive viewpoint is that, as a result, cybersecurity professionals have plenty of learning moments. Learning what went wrong and why can be a good sanity check for organizations that want to revisit their security readiness and up-level their […]