Cybersecurity

Elevated ransomware activity hit nearly 5,200 organizations in 2023

Almost 5,200 organizations were hit by ransomware attacks in 2023, Rapid7 said in a Friday blog post, pulling research from public disclosures and incident data from its managed detection and response team. “In reality, we believe that number was actually higher because it doesn’t account for the many attacks that likely went unreported,” Christiaan Beek, […]

Cybersecurity

Nation-State Actors Weaponize Ivanti VPN Zero-Days, Deploying 5 Malware Families

Jan 12, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Threat Intelligence As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances since early December 2023. “These families allow the threat actors to circumvent authentication and provide backdoor access to these devices,” […]

Cybersecurity

Nation-State Actors Weaponize Ivanti VPN Zero-Days, Deploying 5 Malware Families

Jan 12, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Threat Intelligence As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances since early December 2023. “These families allow the threat actors to circumvent authentication and provide backdoor access to these devices,” […]