Australian Cyber Security Centre warns of a surge of LockBit 2.0 ransomware attacks

Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management Vulnerability Affects Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 and S7-1500 CPU Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 1, 2021     (Photo: Siemens) Siemens has released patches for certain automation products that have a critical memory protection vulnerability, which attackers could exploit to run arbitrary code to access…

Microsoft Defender Antivirus Now Protects Users Against Ongoing Exchange Attacks | IT Security News 19. March 2021 Microsoft informed customers on Thursday that Defender Antivirus and System Center Endpoint Protection now provide automatic protection against attacks exploiting the recently disclosed Exchange Server vulnerabilities. read more Like this: Like Loading… Related Tags: SecurityWeek RSS Feed Sponsors…

Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Linux-based operating systems that, if successfully exploited, could let attackers circumvent mitigations for speculative attacks such as Spectre and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory.Discovered by Piotr Krysiuk of Symantec’s Threat Hunter team, the flaws — tracked as CVE-2020-27170 and CVE-2020-27171 (CVSS

Application Security , Application Security & Online Fraud , Breach Notification Three FortiOS Vulnerabilities Being Exploited for the Campaign Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 3, 2021     The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI warn that unidentified nation-state actors are scanning for three vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s operating system, FortiOS, to likely…

Accenture spotted the LockBit ransomware attack on its systems as far back as July 30 and found that hackers had stolen documents referencing clients, as well as work materials created on clients’ behalf, according to a report from cybersecurity news site CyberScoop. The publicly traded IT consultancy initially confirmed the ransomware attack on Wednesday in…

The Russian military has built up its military presence in Crimea and along the border with Ukraine, raising concerns among the U.S. and its allies of a potential conflict. Russia has stationed the highest number of troops along Ukraine’s border since 2014, and leaders there have been mulling how to respond to the moves from…