The White House Is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics
The White House Is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics
Carnival Corp. said Thursday that a data breach in March might have exposed personal information about customers and employees on Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises. In a letter to customers, the company indicated that outsiders might have gained access to Social Security numbers, passport numbers, dates of birth, addresses and health…
A suspicious wave of attacks resulted in the hack of four cybercrime forums Verified, Crdclub, Exploit, and Maza since January. Since January, a series of mysterious cyberattacks that resulted in the hack of popular Russian-language cybercrime forums. Unknown threat actors hacked the Verified forum in January, Crdclub in February, and Exploit and Maza in March,…
Microsoft has released a cumulative out-of-band update to fix a known printing issue preventing some printers and scanners from working correctly. “Addresses an issue with devices that do not comply with section 3.2.1 of the RFC 4556 specification,” Microsoft explains in the KB5005394 support document. “Noncompliant printers, scanners, and multifunction devices might not work when…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Company Shut Down Part of Its Network That Was Compromised Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 3, 2021 Japanese conglomerate Fujifilm has shut down part of its network after it was compromised in a suspected ransomware attack, the company said in an update on Wednesday….
One of the largest insurance companies in the U.S. reportedly paid $40 million in ransom in March to regain control of its network following a ransomware attack. CNA Financial Corp. reportedly paid the hackers two weeks after a heap of company data was stolen, and employees of the company were locked out of their network, Bloomberg reported…
Ransomware attacks grew 64 per cent year-on-year between August 2020 and July 2021, according to a report from the cybersecurity firm Barracuda. Barracuda’s researchers, analysed 121 ransomware incidents between August 2020 and July 2021 and identified a 64 per cent YoY increase in attacks. A majority of these attacks were carried out by a “handful…