Three-Quarters of Cyber Incident Victims Are Small Businesses

March 12, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Three-quarters of cyber-incidents Sophos responded to involved small businesses in 2023, with attackers’ main goal being data theft

Victims Lose $47m to Crypto Phishing Scams in February

March 12, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Some 57,000 victims lost $47m in phishing scams targeting their cryptocurrency last month

Lawmakers Slam UK Government’s “Ostrich Strategy” for Cybersecurity

March 12, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

An influential parliamentary committee claims government short-termism is exposing the country to ransomware catastrophe

Intelligence officials warn pace of innovation in AI threatens US

March 12, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

U.S. intelligence officials warned on Monday that the United States faces a growing threat from an accelerating pace of technological innovation and proliferation and that governments are struggling to adapt

Biden’s budget proposal seeks funding boost for cybersecurity

March 11, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

President Joe Biden’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2025 calls for $13 billion in cybersecurity funding for civilian agencies, including additional investments to the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and

BianLian Threat Actor Shifts Focus to Extortion-Only Tactics

March 11, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

GuidePoint said the threat actor gained initial access via vulnerabilities in a TeamCity server

Incognito Darknet Market Mass-Extorts Buyers, Sellers

March 11, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction and chat records

Magnet Goblin Exploits Ivanti Vulnerabilities

March 11, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The threat actor uses custom Linux malware to pursue financial gain, according to Check Point Research

NSA Launches Top 10 Cloud Security Mitigation Strategies

March 11, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The advisory is associated with ten companion cybersecurity information sheets detailing how to implement each strategy

Third-Party Breach and Missing MFA Contributed to British Library Cyber-Attack

March 11, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

A British Library report found the most likely source of the incident was the compromise of third-party account credentials and no MFA was in place to stop the attackers