Attacks/Breaches

There's no quick fix after decades of underinvestment, but the process has started. Cybersecurity grants, mandatory reporting protocols, and beefed-up authentication requirements are being put in place.

Organizations can best defend themselves on the cyber battlefield by adopting a military-style defense.

Victims include at least 15 healthcare organizations, one Fortune 500 company, and other organizations in multiple countries, security vendor says.

The program, dubbed CryWiper, is aimed at Russian targets; it requests a ransom but has no way to decrypt any overwritten files.

Patients transferred and operations canceled following a recent network breach at a hospital in the outskirts of Paris.

As ransomware's prevalence has grown over the past decade, leading ransomware groups such as Conti have added services and features as part of a growing trend toward professionalization.

A single improperly formatted command has effectively killed KmsdBot botnet, security vendor says.

Journalists in El Salvador haul NSO Group to US court for illegal surveillance that ultimately compromised their safety.

Following a year of increasingly disruptive attacks, advanced persistent threat groups will likely only become emboldened in 2023, security experts say.

The threat actor behind an August intrusion used data from that incident to access customer data stored with a third-party cloud service provider, and affiliate GoTo reports breach of development environment.

A vulnerability discovered in GitHub Actions could allow an attacker to poison a developer's pipeline, highlighting the risk that insecure software pipelines pose.

The vulnerability, disclosed In October, gives an unauthenticated attacker a way to take control of an affected product.

Expect to see attackers expand their use of current consumer-targeting tactics while exploring new ways to target Internet users — with implications for businesses.

Elon Musk-owned Starlink, WhiteHouse.gov, and the Prince of Wales were targeted by Killnet in apparent retaliation for its support of Ukraine.

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