The prolific ransomware group LockBit has been tied to the recent disruption of Britain's national postal system, as Royal Mail reports it remains unable to send international letters or parcels. While LockBit has enjoyed unusual longevity, could this attack be its undoing?
Twitter says a massive collection of purported user data being sold and then leaked via cybercrime markets was not amassed by exploiting a vulnerability in its systems but is instead "likely a collection of data already publicly available online through different sources."
Microsoft fixed an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in 2023's first Patch Tuesday dump. The Redmond giant also issued fixes for 98 other vulnerabilities, including 11 classified as critical and 87 as important. The zero-day vulnerability could be used as part of a ransomware attack.
Darknet markets offering illegal drugs and fraudster tools and services are thriving, despite the constant threat of law enforcement infiltration, disruption, takedown and arrests. In response, multiple drug markets have launched customized Android apps to handle buying, selling and fulfillment.
Anytime critical infrastructure gets disrupted, the first question inevitably seems to be: Was a cyberattack to blame? So it went Wednesday when the Federal Aviation Administration announced a "ground stop," prohibiting all U.S. flights from taking off, due to an overnight system failure.
Although small to medium enterprises - SMEs - do not have the security resources larger enterprise possess, they face the same risks. Here are five reasons you should consider consolidating your tech as you strive to find an effective, sustainable security stack that also keeps costs in check.
Industrial control vendors such as Honeywell are increasingly adopting Nozomi Networks within their security portfolio, says CEO Edgard Capdevielle. Firms such as Siemens can actually run Nozomi's products inside their platform, while others have incorporated its tool into a managed service bundle.
Seattle police have charged an online retailer's "shopping experience" software programmer with engineering a fraud scheme based on the movie "Office Space," in which malicious software was used to transfer a fraction of every transaction into an outside account.
Hackers can strike any industry, but there has been an alarming increase in targeted and successful cyberattacks in healthcare. Now, more than ever, it's essential that your healthcare organization is prepared and has strategies in place for managing data breaches. Here are seven strategies to use.
Airbus has once again expressed interest in Atos' $4.8 billion cybersecurity, big data and digital business - this time as a minority stakeholder, Les Echos reports. The Dutch aircraft manufacturer has started exploratory talks to take a noncontrolling interest in Atos' Evidian business.
Arizona has long been a leader in leveraging IT and providing digital services, but across the state and country alike, new challenges are emerging in the wake of the pandemic, and with them come new threats and risk factors, including remote work security, says Ryan Murray, deputy state CISO.
Rackspace says the ransomware-wielding attackers who disrupted its hosted Microsoft Exchange Server environment last month wielded a zero-day exploit, described by CrowdStrike as being "a previously undisclosed exploit method for Exchange," to gain remote, direct access to servers it hosted.
Many enterprises over the past three years jumped from "dipping their toes" into the cloud to being immersed in multi-cloud environments. How has data management changed as companies distribute data across cloud, data centers and on-premises? John Drake and Brian Hoekelman of Faction share insights.
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