Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Russian Hackers Target Energy, Law Enforcement Sectors Mihir Bagwe (MihirBagwe) • September 26, 2023 The 30th Prince Konstanty Ostrogski Mechanized Brigade training in February 2022 (Image: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine) Ukrainian cyber defenders are girding for an onslaught of cyberattacks against energy and […]
Despite some positive developments, the impact of ransomware attacks remains high, according to SpyCloud. Infostealer infections preceded 22% of ransomware events for North American and European ransomware victim companies in 2023 – with common infostealers such as Raccoon, Vidar, and Redline increasing the probability even further. SpyCloud’s analysis shows that 76% of infections that preceded […]
How To Use This Report Enhance situational awareness of techniques used by threat actors Identify potential attacks targeting your industry Gain insights to help improve and accelerate your organization’s threat response Summary of Findings The Network Effect Threat Report offers insights based on unique data from Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF from Q2 2023 (April 1, 2023 […]
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Healthcare HHS Report Lists APT41, APT43 and Lazarus Among Top Threat Groups Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • September 22, 2023 Image: HHS HC3 Chinese and North Korean cybercriminal groups continue to pose significant “unique threats” to the U.S. healthcare and public health sector, […]
Cyber attacks are on the rise. Cyber Security Hub research has found that two in five cyber security professionals said the rate and volume of cyber attacks experienced by their organization increased in the past year. With this increase in cyber attacks, it is no longer enough for cyber security teams to employ only reactive […]
An Iranian state-backed APT group carried out a “wave” of cyber-espionage attacks against thousands of global targets over a six-month period, Microsoft has revealed. The group known as Peach Sandstorm (aka APT33, Elfin, and Refined Kitten) used password spraying techniques between February and July 2023. This is a brute-force technique where threat actors try to […]
Espionage actors are continuing to mount attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) targets, a trend that has become a source of concern for governments and CNI organizations worldwide. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team has found evidence that a threat actor group Symantec calls Redfly used the ShadowPad Trojan to compromise a national grid in an Asian […]
Software maker Adobe on Tuesday raised an alarm about new in-the-wild zero-day attacks hitting users of its widely deployed Adobe Acrobat and Reader product. As part of its scheduled batch of Patch Tuesday updates, Adobe warned that hackers are exploiting a remotely exploitable vulnerability — CVE-2023-26369 — to launch code execution attacks. Adobe describes the […]
Reported ransomware attacks on organizations in the United Kingdom reached record levels last year, when criminals compromised data on potentially more than 5.3 million people from over 700 organizations, according to a surprisingly neglected dataset published by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The true count of ransomware incidents is a known unknown for officials trying […]