Breach

TechRepublic reports that ransomware attacks have increased by 53% in February, with the prevalence of attacks poised to grow even further despite the passage of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act last month.

During episode 34 of the CISO Stories podcast, the CEO of a communications firm specializing in cybersecurity suggests how organizations can prepare themselves for a breach to have more resources and levers to pull in the moment they are needed.

BleepingComputer reports that VMware Horizon servers vulnerable to Log4Shell are being targeted by Chinese advanced persistent threat group Deep Panda to distribute the novel Fire Chili rootkit.

Threat actors have been engaging in the trade of the new infostealer malware dubbed "BlackGuard" in Russian underground forums, ZDNet reports.

Several cybersecurity, storage and cloud vendors have been evaluating the effect of the high-severity flaw in OpenSSL, tracked as CVE-2022-0778, which could be exploited to facilitate a denial-of-service condition, reports SecurityWeek.

This week’s healthcare data breach roundup includes multiple ransomware-related incidents, including the ongoing outage at Partnership HealthPlan of California allegedly caused by Hive threat actors.

The Hacker News reports that Zyxel has released fixes for a critical security flaw impacting its USG/ZyWALL, USG FLEX, ATP, VPN, and NSG offerings.