The U.S. government has been urged by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., to significantly increase investments in upgrading national security communications and software to ensure that they are adequately protected against cybersecurity threats, CyberScoop reports. "We're talking about software systems that, you know, operate our missiles and our ships and everything, they just don't, they are not as protected as they should be.
Two-thirds of companies impacted by cybercrimes during the past year experienced more than one attack, 10% of whom had been attacked at least 10 times, reports ZDNet.
Hello XD ransomware has been updated to include a new encryptor with algorithm modifications and custom packing to further evade detection, according to BleepingComputer
Proofpoint researchers found that threat actors have been leveraging various phishing attack techniques to facilitate cryptocurrency theft, ZDNet reports.
The Hacker News reports that the popular Carrier LenelS2 HID Mercury access control system has been discovered by Trellix researchers to be impacted by up to four critical zero-day flaws, which could be exploited to obtain complete system control.
Attackers could launch a new attack dubbed "PACMAN" to compromise devices running on Apple's M1 chip, VentureBeat reports.The PACMAN attack involves successful guessing of the value of the pointer authentication code, which could then be disabled, preventing software vulnerability attack detection, according to a study from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory researchers.
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