Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “The Manipulaters,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. In January 2024, The Manipulaters pleaded with this author to unpublish previous stories about their work, claiming the group had turned over a new leaf and gone legitimate. But new research […]
Email security remained top of mind for cybersecurity professionals in 2023 as over nine in ten (94%) cyber decision-makers had to deal with a phishing attack, according to email security provider Egress. This is up 2% from the previous year, Egress’ Email Security Risk Report 2024 found. The top three phishing techniques used throughout 2023 […]
The organization that manages wastewater for nine million people in and around Paris was hit with a cyberattack on Friday. Service public de l’assainissement francilien – known by its acronym SIAAP — manages nearly 275 miles of pipes throughout four French departments. The organization said on Friday that it filed a complaint with the judicial […]
Rackspace Technology recorded $5 million in expenses for the first nine months of this year, stemming from the December 2022 ransomware attack of the company’s Hosted Exchange business, according to a 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed email solution for small- and medium-sized businesses represented about 1% of the company’s revenue […]
Cisco Talos has disclosed 17 vulnerabilities over the past two weeks, including nine that exist in a popular VPN software. Attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities in the SoftEther VPN solution for individual and enterprise users to force users to drop their connections or execute arbitrary code on the targeted machine. Talos’ Vulnerability Research team […]
There were 2116 reported US data breaches and leaks in the first nine months of 2023, making it the worst year on record with a whole quarter left to go, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The non-profit, which tracks publicly reported breaches in the US, said there were 733 “data compromises” in […]
Nine vulnerabilities, including potentially serious flaws, were patched recently in a couple of electric power management products made by Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL). SEL is a US-based company that provides a wide range of products and services for the electric power sector, including control systems, generator and transmission protection, and distribution automation. Researchers at industrial […]