Threat actors are cashing in on the rapid shift to cloud-based business services during the pandemic, by hiding behind ubiquitous, trusted services from Microsoft and Google to make their email phishing scams look legit. And it’s working. In fact, in the first three months of 2021 alone, researchers….
Kaseya released a patch for the vulnerabilities that were used by REvil in what seems to be one of the largest ransomware attacks, in which the ransomware gang, also known as Sodinokibi, targeted MSPs with thousands of customers. Back in April, the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) had disclosed seven vulnerabilities to Kaseya with most of them…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Endpoint Security , Governance & Risk Management CEO and CISO Panel Discusses Critical Infrastructure Protection Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • August 6, 2021 OT, IoT, IIoT – each has critical distinctions, and each is increasingly vital to protecting the world’s critical infrastructure from crippling cyberattacks. In a…
Israeli surveillance software company NSO Group has temporarily blocked several government clients around the world from using its Pegasus spyware as the company investigates its possible misuse, Washington-based non-profit media outlet NPR reported. The development also follows raids on some offices of the NSO Group on Wednesday by Israeli government agencies “to begin assessing” security…
In what’s likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability.The leaked data includes full names, Facebook IDs, mobile numbers, locations, email addresses, gender, occupation, city, country,
The nation’s largest oil pipeline is having issues with its scheduling system for future shipments. Colonial Pipeline’s network was down Tuesday just days after the pipeline reopened from a week-long shutdown. Last week’s cyberattack pushed gas prices to a seven-year high and caused fuel shortages. See more stories on Insider’s business page. Colonial Pipeline is having…
The Republican National Committee says none of its data was compromised in a cyberattack that involved B2B IT services provider Synnex. Over the weekend, Synnex was the target of a cyberattack by threat actors who attempted to access “customer applications within the Microsoft cloud environment.” As part of the services it offers, Synnex manages cloud…
