Panera Bread’s recent week-long outage was caused by a ransomware attack, according to people familiar with the matter and emails seen by BleepingComputer. […]
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A new program called CyberTowns is setting out to identify the best communities across Canada to start and grow a career in the cybersecurity and IT fields. Launched by the Canadian Cybersecurity Network and IT World Canada, the initiative will evaluate cities on factors like job opportunities, affordability, population growth, taxes, crime rates, weather, health […]
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A new ransomware gang claims 11 victims, Ivanti promises to overhaul product security, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, April 5th, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. A new ransomware group emerged last month. Dubbed the RedCryptoApp, researchers at Netenrich say […]
A relatively new malware called Latrodectus is believed to be an evolution of the IcedID loader, seen in malicious email campaigns since November 2023. […]
Visa is warning about a spike in detections for a new version of the JsOutProx malware targeting financial institutions and their customers. […]
Microsoft has fixed an issue that triggers erroneous Outlook security alerts when opening .ICS calendar files after installing the December 2023 Outlook Desktop security updates […]
Hoya Corporation, one of the largest global manufacturers of optical products, says a “system failure” caused servers at some of its production plants and business divisions to go offline on Saturday. […]
Cancer treatment and research center City of Hope is warning that a data breach exposed the sensitive information of over 820,000 patients. […]
Newly discovered HTTP/2 protocol vulnerabilities called “CONTINUATION Flood” can lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks, crashing web servers with a single TCP connection in some implementations. […]
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A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of their operations recently when they threatened to sue a software company. The disclosure revealed a profitable network of phishing sites that behave and look like the real Privnote, except that any messages containing cryptocurrency addresses […]