Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware UK Crime and Cybersecurity Agencies Urge ‘Holistic’ View of Ransomware Ecosystem Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • September 11, 2023 Image: Shutterstock Stopping the ransomware epidemic is less about tackling individual crypto-locking malware variants and more about combating the entire ecosystem of bad actors underpinning digital extortion, the British […]
Hospitality and entertainment giant MGM Resorts on Monday said a “cybersecurity issue” forced the shutdown of certain computer systems, including the websites for some of the biggest Las Vegas and New York properties. A brief note posted to X (the website formerly known as Twitter) said external cybersecurity experts and law enforcement are involved in […]
Some of TOP universities wouldn’t pass cybersecurity exam: left websites vulnerable Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2023 CyberNews researchers discovered that many universities worldwide are leaking sensitive information and are even open to full takeover. Many universities worldwide, including some of the most prestigious, leave their webpages unpatched, leaking sensitive information, and even open to full […]
A cybersecurity company claims it identified and thwarted a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting a prominent American financial institution. The researchers at Akamai Technologies did not reveal the company’s name but said it is among their “largest and most influential” customers in the financial sector. DDoS attacks overwhelm websites with a flood of traffic, […]
Cybersecurity firm Check Point is warning of a new type of phishing attacks that abuse Google Looker Studio to bypass protections. Google Looker Studio is a legitimate online tool for creating customizable reports, including charts and graphs, that can be easily shared with others. As part of the observed attacks, threat actors are using Google […]
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released new guidance to help federal agencies adopt distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigations. DDoS attacks are a type of cyberattack in which threat actors flood a server or network with internet traffic, exhausting its resources and rendering the target inaccessible. Meant to help federal agencies prevent “large-scale […]
Sep 08, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Exploit The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday warned that multiple nation-state actors are exploiting security flaws in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN and Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus to gain unauthorized access and establish persistence on compromised systems. “Nation-state advanced persistent threat (APT) actors exploited CVE-2022-47966 to gain unauthorized […]