A cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum that led to an ongoing outage impacting the Change Healthcare payment exchange platform was linked to the BlackCat ransomware group by sources familiar with the investigation. […]
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A hacking group tracked as ‘UAC-0184’ was observed utilizing steganographic image files to deliver the Remcos remote access trojan (RAT) onto the systems of a Ukrainian entity operating in Finland. […]
The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged tech companies today to switch to memory-safe programming languages, such as Rust, to improve software security by reducing the number of memory safety vulnerabilities. […]
Threat actors are exploiting a CMS editor discontinued 14 years ago to compromise education and government entities worldwide to poison search results with malicious sites or scams. […]
One of Ontario’s biggest cities is in the second day of dealing with a cyber attack. Hamilton, a municipality of about 570,000 on the shore of Lake Ontario, said Sunday it had suffered a city-wide phone and email “disruption” to municipal and public library services, which included the Bus Check Info Line and the HSRNow […]
Members of the Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance warned today that APT29 Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) hackers are now switching to attacks targeting their victims’ cloud services. […]
Steel giant ThyssenKrupp confirms that hackers breached systems in its Automotive division last week, forcing them to shut down IT systems as part of its response and containment effort. […]
While security training can help create a culture of cybersecurity awareness, it can’t be relied upon to consistently change behavior. Learn more from Specops Software about the limitations of training and five ways you can increase password security. […]
A massive ad fraud campaign named “SubdoMailing” is using over 8,000 legitimate internet domains and 13,000 subdomains to send up to five million emails per day to generate revenue through scams and malvertising. […]
The LockBit ransomware gang says it’s back in business, with a person posting a message admitting his “personal negligence and irresponsibility” for not updating an application was likely used by law enforcement last week to dismantle much of the operation’s IT infrastructure. This explanation is included in an English and Russian message on the gang’s […]