September 2023

August 2023 saw a drop in ransomware attacks, according to NCC Group’s August Threat Pulse, with 390 attacks representing a 22% drop from July.  It comes after back-to-back record months in June and July, largely the result of Cl0ps MOVEit exploitation and the ongoing impact of the attack.  Lockbit 3.0 back in the top spot […]

Tampa, FL – September 21, 2023 — OPSWAT, a leader in critical infrastructure protection (CIP) cybersecurity solutions, sponsored the SANS 2023 ICS/OT Cybersecurity Survey, which unveils a distinct reality: despite notable improvements in defense strategies, including increased ICS cybersecurity awareness and enhanced incident response plans, survey respondents collectively consider current cybersecurity threats to ICS as severe/critical (25%)

CLIFTON, N.J., Sept. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — ClassLink, the leading provider of identity and access management (IAM) products for education, unveils Scope Your Google Directory, a timely ClassLink Academy course designed to protect schools from directory scraping. In today’s digital age, schools’ increasing reliance on technology to streamline operations brings new challenges and threats, including directory scraping. Directory

Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Cisco today announced it is acquiring cybersecurity and observability leader Splunk in a cash deal worth $28 billion.  The San Jose, California-based networking giant said the move will bring together both companies’ capabilities to drive the next generation of AI-enabled

The difference between managing cybersecurity in on-premises and cloud environments is not unlike playing traditional versus three-dimensional chess. While the tactics are similar and goals are the same — reduce risk, protect confidential data, meet compliance requirements, and the like — the cloud adds complexity that completely changes the dynamic. The cloud’s architecture, lack of

Nearly three-quarters (73%) of cybersecurity industry leaders have experienced burnout in the last 12 months — and who can blame them? The shift to remote and hybrid work models has increased organizations’ reliance on cloud services, limiting security teams’ visibility into employee network and endpoint environments. But reduced visibility places company data at greater risk

In what’s becoming an all-too-common occurrence in the current threat landscape, security researchers have found yet another malicious open source package, this time an active Python file on GitLab that hijacks system resources to mine cryptocurrency. The package, called “culturestreak,” originates from an active repository on the GitLab developer site from a user named Aldri

The International Criminal Court (ICC), which handles highly sensitive information about war crimes, says its computer system has been hacked.  Key points: The ICC said it had detected unusual activity on its computer network at the end of last week, prompting a response that was ongoing.  A spokesperson declined to comment on how serious the

The peer-to-peer (P2) worm known as P2PInfect has witnessed a surge in activity since late August 2023, witnessing a 600x jump between September 12 and 19, 2023. “This increase in P2PInfect traffic has coincided with a growing number of variants seen in the wild, suggesting that the malware’s developers are operating at an extremely high

The ABC can reveal former staff of hacked tele-fundraiser Pareto Phone were not told for weeks that their highly sensitive employment information was published on the dark web. More than 320,000 files stolen from Pareto servers by cybercriminals in April were made public on the dark web last month, including tens of thousands of charity