The White House is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics – Nextgov
The White House is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics – Nextgov
An unknown malicious actor has compromised the official PHP Git repository in attempt to add backdoors to the code base of the PHP project. According to PHP programming language developer and maintainer Nikita Popov, the incident took place last Saturday, on March 28. He said that two malicious commits were pushed to the…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , DDoS Protection Matthew Gatrel Offered Subscription-Based Computer Attack Platforms Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • September 19, 2021 An Illinois man has been found guilty of running subscription-based distributed denial of service attacks that flood targeted computers with information and prevent them from being able to access the internet, reports…
Hackers with suspected ties to Iran are actively targeting academia, government agencies, and tourism entities in the Middle East and neighboring regions as part of an espionage campaign aimed at data theft. Dubbed “Earth Vetala” by Trend Micro, the latest finding expands on previous research published by Anomali last month, which found evidence of malicious…
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management Permanent Fix Replaces Earlier Workaround Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 3, 2021 Ivanti, parent company of Pulse Secure, published a permanent fix Monday for a zero-day vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure VPN products that has been exploited to target U.S. government agencies,…
The Russian criminal gang known as DarkSide that is behind the attack that shut down Colonial Pipeline have claimed their only goal is to ‘make money’ and not cause chaos – as experts warn gas prices could surge past $3 a gallon if America’s largest fuel pipeline remains down. The FBI confirmed on Monday that…
Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware In Wake of Colonial Pipeline Attack, Ransomware as Unrestrained as Ever, Experts Say Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • June 2, 2021 JBS’s facility in Greeley, Colorado. (Photo: Mizzou CAFNR via Flickr/CC) The White House says it has put Russia on notice over the ransomware attack…