Hyundai Motor Europe suffered a Black Basta ransomware attack, resulting in the theft of three terabytes of corporate data, impacting various departments including legal, sales, human resources, accounting, IT, and management.
ALPHV was the second-most leveraged ransomware strain in North America and Europe between January 2022 and October 2023, just before the reported takedown of the group’s website, according to ZeroFox research. The analysis found that ALPHV, aka BlackCat, accounted for around 11% of all ransomware and digital extortion (R&DE) attacks in North America over the […]
BLACK HAT EUROPE 2023 — London — The HeadCrab malware, which adds infected devices to a botnet for use in cryptomining and other attacks, has resurfaced with a shiny new variant that allows root access to Redis open source servers. Researchers from Aqua Security said the second variant of cryptomining malware has infected 1,100 servers; […]
Researchers have discovered 21 vulnerabilities in a popular brand of industrial router. On Dec. 7 at Black Hat Europe, analysts from Forescout will reveal the bugs — including one of 9.6 “Critical” severity on the CVSS scale, and nine “High” severity — affecting a brand of operational technology (OT)/Internet of Things (IoT) routers especially common […]
Standards, Regulations & Compliance Digital Europe Says Third-Party Assessments Could Ensnare Supply Chains Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • November 8, 2023 Industry association Digital Europe is warning that certification requirements in the Cyber Resilience Act could create bottlenecks. (Image: Shutterstock) Heads of major European tech companies are calling on trading bloc lawmakers to revise […]
Shipping companies across Europe have been hit by a widespread cyberattack since Thursday afternoon. The assault seems to be a DDOS attack, taking down multiple websites. Currently, IT teams are working diligently to address and resolve the issue. The Viking Line Cyberattack Johanna Boijer-Svahnström, Senior Vice President of Viking Line, discussed the extensive cyberattack that […]
Hackers have targeted more than a dozen oil, gas and defense firms in Eastern Europe with an updated version of the MATA backdoor framework, according to recent research. The MATA backdoor was previously attributed to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus. Researchers at the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, who uncovered this campaign, did not directly link […]
As the threat landscape develops, region-specific trends are revealed. Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and the North American market (NAM) see a large range of targeted threats including key employee and role targeting, malicious code commits and third-party data breaches. An estimated 53.35 million US citizens were affected by cyber crime in the […]