Critical sectors will continue to face cybersecurity threats, ransomware attacks and foreign spyware will persist, and the cybersecurity workforce shortage will remain this year, reports The Hill.
Ransomware attack disrupts Texas city Texas' Tomball City had most of its networks compromised by a ransomware attack on Dec. 20, resulting in damages estimated to be more than $50,000, according to Community Impact.
Patch reports that New York's Rockland County had its County Clerk's Office's record management servers disconnected following a malware attack against database software administrator Cott Systems around Christmas.
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More threat actors have been distributing malware through fraudulent websites of widely used software products that are being promoted by exploiting the Google Ads platform, according to BleepingComputer.
The group - tracked as “BlueNoroff” by Kaspersky and “HiddenCobra” by others - registered at least 70 web domains over the last year mimicking the websites of real venture capital firms in Japan and other financial institutions to use in a newly uncovered spearphishing and malware-delivery campaign.
