State and local governments have increasingly fallen prey to cybercriminals seeking to exploit often outdated technology systems and limited cybersecurity resources. Their vital role in delivering essential public services, coupled with the vast amounts of sensitive citizen data they store, makes them attractive targets. Attacks on government institutions not only disrupt crucial services but also […]

The Good | Lapsus$ Teen Members Found Responsible for High-Profile Cyber Crime Spree This week, a London jury found 18 year-old Arion Kurtaj of Oxford, UK to be responsible for a series of cyberattacks against major firms, including Uber, Nvidia, and Rockstar Games. Additional charges include computer intrusion, fraud, and the demand for millions of

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The evolution of the ransomware landscape has seen a shift from the more traditional approach involving Windows payloads to ones targeting other platforms, most notably Linux. In this shift, ransomware operators are shortening the time gaps between different payload releases and bringing feature parity across diverse platforms. Strategically dipping into code from well known ransomware families

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In recent years, there has been a significant uptick in the frequency and sophistication of attacks on the financial and banking industry. The following statistics illustrate the current breadth and depth of cyber attacks by various types of threat actors on financial entities: Financial institutions were the second most impacted sector based on the number

The Good | DigiHeals Aims to Boost Resilience of Healthcare Sector to Fight Off Cyber Attacks The healthcare sector has borne a particularly tough brunt of attacks over the last few years as ransomware-wielding cybercriminals have sought easy-pickings from often-under-resourced public services. Good news this week, then, as the Biden-Harris administration’s ARPA-H project has launched

SentinelOne recently announced the launch of the new Singularity Cloud Data Security product line to help customers gain visibility and provide protection for their cloud data, storage, downstream applications, and users from risks associated with unscanned files. Threat Protection for NetApp provides protection for NetApp arrays, and Threat Detection for Amazon S3, which will be

It has been a tough few weeks for many enterprise security teams fighting a series of severe bugs in Microsoft Windows 10. Shortly after being ‘all hands on deck’ dealing with the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability dubbed PrintNightmare, IT admins and security teams were plunged into another unexpected crisis thanks to the emergence of

Executive Summary A new critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Log4j2, a Java-based logging tool, is being tracked as CVE-2021-44228. Further vulnerabilities in the Log4j library, including CVE-2021-44832 and CVE-2021-45046, have since come to light, as detailed here. Major services and applications globally are impacted by these vulnerabilities due to the prevalence of Log4j2’s