Cybersecurity

Local governments in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Missouri dealing with ransomware

Multiple local governments are dealing with cyberattacks, including ransomware incidents, this week, causing outages and problems for county hospitals, libraries and other local services. Bucks County, Pennsylvania — home to nearly 650,000 people — said on Wednesday that it is still grappling with a cybersecurity incident that has knocked out the Emergency Communications’ Department’s computer-aided […]

Cybersecurity

Online services down for German craft associations following ‘security incident’

The websites and online services for multiple Chambers of Crafts in Germany are down following a “security incident” that appears to have impacted a managed service provider. A statement on the parent organization’s website, which is still online, says that the cyberattack affected an unidentified IT service’s data center and was discovered during the first […]

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NoName on Rampage! Claims DDoS Attacks on Ukrainian Government Sites

NoName ransomware group has allegedly targeted multiple Ukrainian government websites. The latest victims of the alleged NoName ransomware attack on Ukraine include Accordbank, Zaporizhzhya Titanium-Magnesium Plant, State Tax Service, Central Interregional Tax Administration, Western Interregional Tax Administration, and the Main Directorate of the State Tax Service in Kyiv. The Cyber Express tried to verify the […]

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New BLUFFS Bluetooth Attack Expose Devices to Adversary-in-the-Middle Attacks

Dec 04, 2023NewsroomEncryption / Technology New research has unearthed multiple novel attacks that break Bluetooth Classic’s forward secrecy and future secrecy guarantees, resulting in adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) scenarios between two already connected peers. The issues, collectively named BLUFFS, impact Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2 through 5.4. They are tracked under the identifier CVE-2023-24023 (CVSS score: 6.8) and […]